Sentence examples for freestyle weight from inspiring English sources

Melvin Douglas returned to the Olympics in the 213.75-pound freestyle weight class because his close friend, Dominic Black, defaulted after their first finals match, having aggravated the knee injury he sustained while training with Douglas last week.

Last week it was announced that wrestling — at the strong urging of the I.O.C. — will add two women's freestyle weight classes for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

On the first day of freestyle competition two weight classes were decided, including 74kg, where the brightest U.S. star, defending world champion, enthusiastic tweeter and cotton candy connoisseur Jordan Burroughs competes.

He became a collegiate star, and after graduating in 1940, he dominated national and international freestyle wrestling in his weight group.

(For weight classes, see freestyle wrestling).

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the Greco-Roman wrestling programme was reduced from 10 to eight weight categories, while freestyle dropped from 10 to seven categories in 2004 to allow for the introduction of women's wrestling.

She became the North-East freestyle women's champion (72 kg weight class) in 1999, and also won the 72 kg weight class at the New York State Fair Tournament the same year.

The last time Cormier made the Olympic freestyle wrestling team, at the same weight of 96 kilograms or about 211 pounds, he felt like he had accomplished something.

Wrestling answered the I.O.C.'s request for more gender equity by adding two weight classes to women's freestyle.

The change, which comes at the expense of one weight class in men's freestyle and Greco-Roman, will go into effect for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

There are 18 Greco-Roman events for men only in seven weight categories, and in the freestyle seven categories for men and four for women.