Apart from the World Cups results which outline the greatest wrestling nations, it is important to note that the following countries count excellent freestyle wrestlers: Japan, Korea, Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan

Par terre:

On the mat, starting position in which a wrestler has his hands and knees on the mat and the other wrestler is kneeling beside him with two hands on his back; also called the referee's position.

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DID YOU KNOW?

There are several 'illegal moves' in Freestyle Wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is a positionally-based form of grappling, and thus generally prohibits the following:

1. Biting, pinching and poking with the fingers, toes, or nails, including fish hooking the nose or mouth
2. Gouging or intentionally scratching the opponent – eye-gouges especially are grounds for disqualification and banned status in most amateur wrestling communities
3. Strikes using hands, fists, elbows, feet, knees, or head
4. Joint locks, including armlocks, leglocks, spinal locks, wristlocks and small joint manipulation.
5. Chokeholds, strangling, or smothering
6. Spiking, or lifting and slamming the opponent head-first into the mat (though other forms of slamming are generally allowed in the international styles; in folkstyle, slamming per se is illegal)
7. Grasping or Holding an opponent's genitals
8. Using a figure-four leg lock (one knee is bent at a 90º angle and placed behind the other knee) of the torso or the head in the neutral position (it is, however, legal to figure-four the head if both wrestlers are not in the neutral position; this rule exists primarily to prevent people from using a figure-four lock of the head to prevent a 'shooting' takedown, as it is very dangerous in that circumstance)
9. Most types of wrestling also discourage or prohibit the use of one's own or the opponent's clothing for grasping or performing any type of hold.