UWW

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Foundational federation milestone — United World Wrestling traces its rule-making lineage to the 1921 founding of the International Amateur Wrestling Federation (IAWF), which held that name from 1921 to 1952 before renaming to the Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées (FILA). Across more than a century of governance evolution — IAWF (1921-1952), FILA (1952-2014), and UWW (September 2014→present) — the federation has remained the continuously-operating rule-making authority for international wrestling. Every modern UWW rule on Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling format, weight categories, scoring, anti-doping, and Olympic eligibility descends from the rule-making mandate established at this 1921 IAWF founding.

Recorded May 9, 2026

Most consequential modern federation crisis for international wrestling. On 12 February 2013, the IOC Executive Board voted to recommend that wrestling be dropped as a core sport for the 2020 Olympic Games. The vote shocked the wrestling community and triggered the federation's emergency reform programme — scoring-system overhaul, governance restructuring, athlete-commission expansion, women's-wrestling promotion, and refreshed anti-doping protocols. On 8 September 2013, the IOC voted to restore wrestling as an Olympic sport for 2020, validating the federation's reform response. The 2013 crisis is the proximate trigger for every major UWW rule change of the modern era; the September 2014 rename from FILA to United World Wrestling capped the modernization arc.

Recorded May 9, 2026

Federation modernization milestone. In September 2014, the federation formerly known as the Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées (FILA) assumed its current name, United World Wrestling (UWW). The rename completed the modernization arc that began with the February 2013 IOC core-sport drop and the September 2013 IOC reinstatement of wrestling for the 2020 Olympic Games — the reform programme that won wrestling its Olympic place back included scoring-system changes, governance restructuring, and a federation-led identity shift away from FILA-era branding. The UWW name under which the federation's rules on contest format, scoring, weight categories, women's wrestling and anti-doping are issued dates from this 2014 rebrand.

Recorded May 9, 2026

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