How many points advantage must a freestyle wrestler must have against his/ her opponent for the bout to be declared over?

The correct answer is 10.

Key Points

• In freestyle wrestling, if one wrestler has a 10-point advantage over their opponent, the bout is declared over and the wrestler with the advantage wins by technical superiority.
•  This rule is in place to prevent a wrestler from being excessively beaten or injured in a match.

Wrestling: 

• Wrestling is a hand-to-hand combat system.
• It is a set of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins, and other grappling holds.
• Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat sports, and military systems.

​Wrestling duration:

• A typical freestyle wrestling bout, much like Greco-Roman, is divided into two periods of three minutes each with a 30-second break in between.
• For official Under-15, cadets, and veteran competitions, the periods are curtailed to two minutes each.
• Two competing wrestlers face each other on a mat, nine-meter in diameter, with the primary objective of pinning the opponent’s shoulders to the mat for a short duration of time, which hands the wrestler an instant victory by ‘fall’.

• Thus, two periods of three minutes is correct with reference to a wrestling match.

  Additional Information:

  Wrestling in the Olympics:

• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was formed, and the first Games were planned for 1896 in Athens, the capital of Greece.
• In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events, covering track-and-field, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, and tennis.
• Since the Olympic Games began in Athens in 1896, wrestling (in the form of Greco-Roman wrestling) became a focus of the Games, with the exception of the 1900 Summer Olympics when wrestling did not appear on the program.
• Freestyle wrestling and weight classes both made their first appearance in 1904.