UWW bureau announces new weight categories
Baku, August 29, AZERTAC
The bureau of United World Wrestling wrapped up its week of meetings Thursday night at the Pullman Hotel in Bercy, passing several recommendations including the designation for the ten new weight categories and the announcement of host cities for the 2018 season.
The new weight categories were the most deliberated issues of the meetings. Last year, United World Wrestling president stated the intention for wrestling to move from 8 to 10 weight categories, prompting speculation on how those new weights would be distributed and if they would affect the six Olympic weight categories.
In the end, the bureau chose an overall moderate approach, looking to impact as few existing weight categories as possible.
Freestyle will keep all their current Olympic and non-Olympic weight categories and will simply add 79kg and 92kg.
57kg-61kg-65kg-70kg-74kg-79kg-86kg-92kg-97kg-125kg
Women’s wrestling will increase the lowest weight from 48kg to 50kg and slightly redistribute several weight categories, most by only one or two kilograms.
50kg-53kg-55kg-57kg-59kg-62kg-65kg-68kg-72kg-76kg
Greco-Roman went through the largest shift in assignments, adjusting nearly all the weight categories.
55kg-60kg-63kg-67kg-72kg-77kg-82kg-87kg-97kg-130kg
Junior-level and U-23 wrestlers will also compete at the senior-level weight categories.
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