Grappling World Championships

The world championships in grappling were held for the first time in 2008 by the FILA , the international wrestling federation. A distinction is made between the two styles No-Gi and Gi. This is a differentiation of the combat clothing. In No-Gi-Grappling the fighters wear shorts and a shirt, in the Gi category they fight in the appropriate combat suit ( Keikogi ).

particularities

A difference to the "normal" wrestling world championships for women in freestyle and men in Greco and freestyle, which are also held by FILA, are the other weight classes in grappling. There is no maximum weight limit in the highest weight class (hence "Open Class"). At the 2010 World Cup, there were six classes for women and eight classes for men. In the first two World Championships in 2008 and 2009, there was no participation restriction for a particular nation. As with wrestling, the rule was only introduced in 2010 that only one athlete per nation and weight class was allowed to compete.

Overview of all world championships

		No-Gi		Gi
			Most successful nation		Most successful nation		Classes
WM	venue	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
2008	Lucerne (SUI)	United States	France	France	France	5	4th
2009	Fort Lauderdale (USA)	United States	United States	Brazil	United States	7th	6th
2010	Krakow (POL)	France	?	United States	Poland	8th	6th
2011	Belgrade (SRB)	France	?	United States	Poland	8th	6th
2012	Krakow (POL)	France	?	United States	Poland	8th	6th
2013	London (CAN)	France	?	United States	Poland	8th	6th

Overview of all world champions

Men

No-Gi

WM	1st Class	2nd Class	3rd grade	4th grade	5th grade	6th grade	7th grade	8th grade
	up to 62 kg	up to 70 kg	up to 80 kg	up to 92 kg	up to 125 kg
2008	Matt Sanchez	Ricky Lundell	Jacob Volkman	Raphael Davis	Jeff Monson
	up to 60 kg	up to 66 kg	up to 74 kg	up to 84 kg	up to 96 kg	up to 120 kg	Open
2009	Zachary Makovsky	Tom Lecuyer	Nicolas Renier	Ben Askren	Raphael Davis	Kelly Anundson	Kelly Anundson
	up to 60 kg	up to 65 kg	up to 70 kg	up to 75 kg	up to 80 kg	up to 90 kg	up to 110 kg	Open
2010	Fabien Brochetelle	Dennis Prokopos	Polok Maciej	Michel Salvadori	David Pierre Louis	Mats Nilsson	Mikael Knutsson	Mario Rinaldi

Gi

WM	1st Class	2nd Class	3rd grade	4th grade	5th grade	6th grade	7th grade	8th grade
	up to 62 kg	up to 70 kg	up to 80 kg	up to 92 kg	up to 125 kg
2008	Herminio Garcia	F dos Santos	Marcello Salazar Mousinho	Ian Murphy	Rodrigo Munduruca
	up to 60 kg	up to 66 kg	up to 74 kg	up to 84 kg	up to 96 kg	up to 120 kg	Open
2009	Brian Petersen	Renato Tavarez	Peter Mettler	Gabriel Kitober	Rodrigo Medeiros	Marcos Oliveiras	Ailton Azevedo
	up to 60 kg	up to 65 kg	up to 70 kg	up to 75 kg	up to 80 kg	up to 90 kg	up to 110 kg	Open
2010	Zach Makovsky	Brian Mahecha	Bence Szoke	Grzegorz Kloc	Scott Garcia	Takanori Kuno	Grzegorz Szatkowski	Mario Rinaldi

Women

No-Gi

WM	1st Class	2nd Class	3rd grade	4th grade	5th grade	6th grade
	up to 48 kg	up to 55 kg	up to 63 kg	up to 72 kg
2008	Lisa Ward	Laurence Fouillat	Sheila Bird	Romy Ruyssen
	up to 50 kg	up to 55 kg	up to 59 kg	up to 63 kg	up to 67 kg	Open
2009	Felicia Oh	Laurence Fouillat	Jessica Aguilar	Sara McMann	Tori Adams	Tori Adams
	up to 50 kg	up to 55 kg	up to 60 kg	up to 65 kg	up to 75 kg	Open
2010	Lisa Ward	Jessica Aguilar	Sheila Bird	Karolina Zawodnik	Monika Oleksik	Sheila Bird

Gi

WM	1st Class	2nd Class	3rd grade	4th grade	5th grade	6th grade
	up to 48 kg	up to 55 kg	up to 63 kg	up to 72 kg
2008	Lisa Ward	Laurence Fouillat	Sheila Bird	Romy Ruyssen
	up to 50 kg	up to 55 kg	up to 59 kg	up to 63 kg	up to 67 kg	Open
2009	Felicia Oh	Laurence Fouillat	Tara Larosa	Sheila Bird	Karolina Zawodnik	Tara Larosa
	up to 50 kg	up to 55 kg	up to 60 kg	up to 65 kg	up to 75 kg	(Open)
2010	Anny Hammarsten	Jessica Aguilar	Sheila Bird	Karolina Zawodnik	Anna Dudek

Web links

• IAT ringer database