The decision by the international governing body for wrestling, to reorganize its weight classes, along with an increase to 10 classes for competition in non-Olympic years, provides the sport with a wonderful opportunity to create an approach that is rational, based on scientific knowledge and creates more opportunities for participation. There are also differences in the classes used between sports world championships and the Olympic Games.
This paper will review the history of weight classes in the sport and also to provide an example of such a process. The 10-class structure must be developed to appropriately accommodate the move to 6 weight classes for Olympic years. This necessitated that the 6-weight class structure be established first.
Curby, D.G. "Considerations of Weight Classes for Wrestling". International Turkish Folks Traditional Sports - Games Symposium, 2017, syf:374-375.
