Women’s freestyle wrestling in global sports movement: progress analysis

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Dr. Hab., Professor A.A. Karelin1
Dr. Hab., Professor B.I. Tarakanov1
Dr. Hab., Professor R.N. Apoiko1
PhD, Professor S.I. Petrov1
V.S. Koblova1
1Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health, St. Petersburg

Objective of the study was to analyze modern women’s freestyle wrestling progress trends in the context of the global sports movement history based on the statistics of the Women's World Wrestling Championships.
Results and conclusion. The Women's World Wrestling Championships statistics analysis (see Table 1 hereunder) for the whole Women's World Wrestling Championships period (31 events on the whole) shows only six nations leading in the team standings, with 24 events won by Japan women’s freestyle wrestling team (77.4% of the total); followed by Russia and China (2 won events); and the USF, Norway and Azerbaijan (1 event each). The analysis demonstrates, on the one hand, the colossal superiority of the Japan women’s freestyle wrestling team and, on the other hand, a very tough competition of the other leading nations.
Having summarized and analyzed the women’s freestyle wrestling progress data in the context of the global sports movement, we would emphasize that the constantly growing competitiveness of the Women's World Wrestling Championship with the fast growths in numbers of individual elite competitors and competing national teams are the key factors indicative of the rapidly increasing popularity of the modern women’s freestyle wrestling sport that is clearly on a fast progress path nowadays.

Keywords: dynamics, female freestyle wrestler, characteristics, trend, indicator, competing nation, stage, sports movement, development.

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