PARIS (AP) — Mijain Lopez has gone out on top. The 41-year-old Cuban defeated Yasmani Acosta Fernandez of Chile 6-0 in the 130-kilogram final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday to win his fifth ...
Greco-Roman wrestling has been a feature of the Olympics since 1896. It is the dominant form of competition, with freestyle wrestling coming into the fold in the 1900s. Greco-Roman Wrestling has ...
LAS VEGAS -- The president of the international wrestling federation said there's a possibility that women's Greco-Roman could be added as an Olympic sport. United World Wrestling head Nenad Lalovic ...
Even the men’s Greco-Roman team got in on the fun of a women’s wrestling home meet for the Northern Michigan University teams ...
A total of 69 athletes took part in the championship, Armenpress reports.
Halfway into the third and final day of Greco-Roman wrestling on Thursday, it looked as if the Americans would leave Beijing without a medal for the first time since 1980 -- until an unlikely savior ...
In a nation where freestyle enjoys massive patronage and has delivered Olympic medals, the other style has begun to find support and wrestlers have won medals at international meets As a young ...
Roman Vlasov got Russia off to a good start in wrestling at Rio 2016 after claiming a gold medal for a second successive Olympics by winning the men’s 75 kilograms Greco-Roman event at Carioca Arena 2 ...
A Russian archaeological team has discovered a well-preserved mummy from the Greco-Roman period in a wooden coffin south of Cairo, Egypt's antiquities ministry said. The discovery was made near New ...
A massive pottery workshop that produced stunning ceramics of all shapes, sizes and colors during the Greco-Roman period has been unearthed in Egypt. Archaeologists working in the area of Tel Kom ...