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These are wall paintings of wrestlers in the tomb of Saqet III tombs at Beni Hassan Middle Egypt and North Africa.

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These are wall paintings of wrestlers in the tomb of Saqet III tombs at Beni Hassan Middle Egypt and North Africa.
Wrestling is believed to have started by the ancient Sumerians, now modern-day Iraq. The first evidence was a sculpture found in Iraq that goes back to 2600 BCE

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Men wrestling, detail of an ancient Greek cup, by Epictetus, c. 520 BCE; in the Agora Museum, Athens.  

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Early Ancient Greek Cup 3000 BCE - 700 BCE

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Early Ancient Greek Cup 3000 BCE - 700 BCE

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Evidence of wrestling has also been found in ancient Egypt. There are paintings of wrestlers that date back to 2500 BCE showing wrestling being held in areas.

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Documents of certain countries wrestling 1500 BCE- 700 BCE

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Documents of certain countries wrestling 1500 BCE- 700 BCE

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Multiple documents from India, China, And Japan prove wrestling from 1500 BCE - to 700 BCE

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1520 Popular in the Middle Ages of Europe

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1520 Popular in the Middle Ages of Europe

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King Henry VIII of England challenged Francis I and lost

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1830 Professional wrestling began in France

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1830 Professional wrestling began in France

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Groups were formed to travel all around the country to show their talent

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Wrestling died out with the Olympic Games in the Dark Ages, but it was natural that when organizers of the 1896 Olympics searched for sports with roots in antiquity, they looked to wrestling. It was the showpiece event of those Olympics

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Wrestling also became known as "catch as catch can" and proved to be popular entertainment in the 19th Century. And here’s where the history gets a little confusing. Despite being a revival of the Olympic tradition, it seems the wrestling showcased at the 1896 Games was closer to freestyle than classical Greco-Roman.
The toast of the 1896 competition was Germany’s Carl Schumann in the heavyweight class, not so much for his wrestling victory, but for the fact that he was also a gold medallist in gymnastics.

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1896 Greco Roman wrestling was introduced to the Olympics

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1896 Greco Roman wrestling was introduced to the Olympics

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After a hiatus in 1900, wrestling was back as freestyle wrestling in 1904. Four years later, Olympic organizers resurrected Greco-Roman wrestling, in which use of the legs is forbidden, a style they believed to be a direct carryover from the Greek and Roman wrestlers of old.

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1901 Canadians have competed successfully in world championship competition

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1901 Canadians have competed successfully in world championship competition

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1904 Freestyle was introduced to the Olympics

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1904 Freestyle was introduced to the Olympics

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(“Profile.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service,)

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Iran and the revolutions effects on wrestling 

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Iran and the revolutions effects on wrestling 

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Iranians have never forgotten the image of Takhti refusing to bow down to allow the Shah to put a medal around his neck. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian wrestling was infused with the Islamic Republic’s ideological zeal. No wrestler was allowed to wrestle with an Israeli. In fact, wrestling in Iran remained a symbol of standing up to evil, be it the Shah’s dictatorship and oppression of the Iranian people or the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

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2004 Women's wrestling started in the Olympics

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2004 Women's wrestling started in the Olympics

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Including competitors from Canada

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The first woman in history to win individual gold in the same discipline at four consecutive Olympics. Japanese freestyle wrestler Kaori Ichō has never lost a bout at the Olympics and won her first gold at Athens 2004 before repeating the feat in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. The first female Olympian to win four consecutive titles in the same discipline, she is a legend in both her native country and her sport. Facebook had yet to see the light of day and Twitter was still three years away from being launched when Japan’s Kaori Ichō suffered her last defeat on the mat for 13 years, in 2003, a year before women’s freestyle wrestling made its first appearance on the Olympic programme.

Ichō has a perfect record at the Games, and gave notice of her rich talent in becoming a national champion at the age of only 17. A year later, in 2002, she landed her first world title, in the 62kg class in Chalkida (GRE), a title she retained the following year in New York.

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Mijaín López Núñez is unbeaten at the Olympic Games since Beijing 2008, winning four consecutive 120kg/130kg titles in the process. A flag-bearer for his country at each of the last four Olympic opening ceremonies, he is also a five-time world champion and one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.

Won his first major Greco-Roman wrestling title in the120kg category at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo (DOM). He has since retained the title on three occasions, in 2007, 2011 and 2015.

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Erica Wiebe won Canada’s third ever Olympic gold medal in wrestling when she finished on top of the 75kg weight class in her Olympic debut at Rio 2016, defeating Kazakhstan’s Guzel Manyurova in the final. She joined Tonya Verbeek and Carol Huynh as Canada’s only female Olympic wrestling medallists. In 2018, she won 76kg bronze at the World Wrestling Championships.

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(“Incstores Roll out Wrestling and Tumbling Mats, Tumbling Mats - Amazon Canada.”)

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Today, with advances in foam technologies, improved health awareness, research and data on impact testing and wrestling mat standards; manufacturers can provide wrestling mats far superior to the mats of the 1950’s and even those available only a decade ago. Proper equipment and the care needed to maintain the equipment is a necessary part of injury prevention in any sport. In the United States, it is estimated that more than two (2) million high school student-athletes suffer from sports-related injuries each year according to a three-year study by the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA).