Wrestling (WRE)

WRE sport icon

Wrestling at the Olympic Games first appeared at the first modern Olympics, in the form of Greco-Roman wrestling, held in Athens in 1896. Wrestling would appear at every Summer Olympics held since then, with the exception of the 1900 Summer Olympics when wrestling did not appear on the program. Freestyle wrestling (or, catch-as-catch-can wrestling as it was called prior to the 1948 Olympics) and weight classes both made their first appearance at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Women's freestyle wrestling competition was first held at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2013, the IOC voted to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympic program. The president of the sport's governing body, FILA (now United World Wrestling), resigned after a subsequent motion of no confidence, and several of the FILA leadership followed suit. Following these and revisions to the program for 2016 (including rule changes and additional women's competitions), wrestling successfully campaigned to be readmitted back onto the Su…[Wikipedia]

Icons throughout the Games

WRE pictogram at 1964_tokyo_olympics
WRE pictogram at 1968_mexico-city_olympics
WRE pictogram at 1972_munich_olympics
WRE pictogram at 1976_montreal_olympics
WRE pictogram at 1980_moscow_olympics
WRE pictogram at 1984_los-angeles_olympics
WRE pictogram at 1988_seoul_olympics
WRE pictogram at 1992_barcelona_olympics
WRE pictogram at 1996_atlanta_olympics
WRE pictogram at 2000_sydney_olympics
WRE pictogram at 2004_athens_olympics
WRE pictogram at 2008_beijing_olympics
WRE pictogram at 2012_london_olympics
WRE pictogram at 2016_rio-de-janeiro_olympics
WRE pictogram at 2020_tokyo_olympics
WRE pictogram at 2010_singapore_youth
WRE pictogram at 2014_nanjing_youth
WRE pictogram at 2018_buenos-aires_youth

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