Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (2)

Authors

Gomboev, Bulat B.; Surikova, Nadezhda V.; Bereza, Aleksey V.; Ryabinina, Svetlana K.

Contact information

Gomboev, Bulat B.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; Surikova, Nadezhda V.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; Bereza, Aleksey V.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; Ryabinina, Svetlana K.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

Keywords

women’s wrestling; history; olympic sport; world cup; Olympic games; summer Olympic games; world championship

Abstract

The history of the development of women’s wrestling as an Olympic sport is considered in the article from the point of view of the statistical indicators dynamics (the period 1985–2021): changes in the number of participating countries in international competitions and the number of athletes declared from each participating country. The anylized competitions: the World Cup, the World Women’s Wrestling Championship and the Olympic Games. The purpose of the study is to assess the current state and development trends of women’s wrestling in the world. Analysis of scientific and methodological literature, statistical database processing United World Wrestling (UWW) – https://uww.org/. The indicators of the participating countries number in women’s wrestling international competitions and the number of athletes declared from each participating country were analyzed. The results obtained complement the theoretical section of the sports development history, the history of the Olympic Games and the wrwstling development history. Describing the current state of women’s wrestling, it can be noted that this type of wrestling is developing in 186 countries of the world, including Africa – 47, South and North America – 33, Asia – 40, Europe – 48 and Oceania – 18. The analysis revealed that the main trends in the development of women’s wrestling in the world are the following directions: 1) the development of women’s wrestling takes place within the sports wrestling development general history framework in the world, since women’s wrestling competitions follow the rules of freestyle wrestling; 2) the development of women’s wrestling as an independent sport (discipline) begins in the 1980s with the first international competitions and reaches its peak after being included in the program of the Olympic Games; 3) there is a high rate of the different countries women’s wrestling development (first of all, an increase in the number of participating countries and athletes participating in world championships, and secondly, an increase in the list of countries participating at least once in the Olympic Games); 4) the holding of the Olympic Games leads to a sharp increase in the number of countries, since a significant increase in the number of countries developing women’s wrestling was observed in 2008–2009 after being included in the program of the Olympic Games; 5) the achievement of the modern level of development of women’s wrestling became possible in 30 years, but women’s wrestling became the third female martial art (after judo and taekwondo) included in the program of the Summer Olympic Games. Statistical analysis confirms the need to maintain the Olympic status for this sport for further positive dynamics in the development of women’s wrestling

Pages

263–273

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Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/149832

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