Dear sports fans, we continue to introduce you to the sports of our Center. Today we present you to read information about women's wrestling.

A little history about the development of women's wrestling in the world-

Initially, wrestling as a sport, entertainment and training was a purely male occupation. Women rarely wrestled, although there is evidence from different historical periods about female wrestlers (the oldest known to us and the most famous female wrestlers are Spartan girls).

With the development of civilization, women, imitating men, gradually began to engage in sports invented by men. In some of them, small changes to the rules were introduced, adapting them to the peculiarities of the female body. While engaging in individual sports, women have also adopted the typical principles of training for men.

Since the twentieth century, women have been actively participating in wrestling competitions. In the second half of the twentieth century, freestyle wrestling became one of the most popular types of martial arts among women. By the 1980s, women's freestyle wrestling had gained recognition in all parts of the world and, in 2004, was included in the Olympic Games program, becoming the third women's Olympic single combat.

The International Wrestling Federation FILA was founded in 1912 and united more than 130 national federations. On September 7, 2014, at the PHIL Congress in Tashkent, it was decided that the main name of the international federation would be the English-language name United World Wrestling (English — "United World of Wrestling")

The first World Championship was held in 1987 in Lorenskog, Norway. All the gold medals were taken by European women then. Since then, the number of national teams in women's wrestling has been growing every year, and medals are already being awarded not only to Europeans.

Currently, women's wrestling continues to develop rapidly, especially after the debut of this sport at the Olympics in Athens in 2004, in London in 2012 and in Rio in 2016. Women's wrestling is becoming popular among girls not only at universities, colleges, technical schools and in high school - girls of almost infancy begin to engage in it. And they are engaged very successfully, because at this age girls are not inferior in strength to boys and often defeat them.

Women's wrestling in Kazakhstan

To date, women's wrestling for Kazakhstan has not yet managed to become a popular and traditional sport, but our athletes have managed to achieve significant success in it. Women's wrestling received rapid development after the first successful performance of the women's national team at the World Championship in Baku in 2007. Then Olga Smirnova received the silver medal, and Elena Shalygina and Olga Zhanibekova took the bronze to Kazakhstan.

In 2008, the long-awaited debut of girls at the Olympic Games took place. Elena Shalygina won the Olympic bronze medal in Beijing.

In 2012 , the purposeful Guzel Manyurova became the bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in London.

In 2016, at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Guzel Manyurova made a significant contribution to the Olympic piggy bank in the weight category up to 75 kilograms, winning a silver medal, and bronze medalists Ekaterina Larionova in the weight category up to 63 kilograms and Elmira Syzdykova in the weight category up to 69 kilograms.

In total, there are 6 Olympic weight categories in women's wrestling, representatives of the national team of the Republic of Kazakhstan in women's wrestling have won three licenses for the Olympic Games in Tokyo to date:

• 50 kg - Valentina Islamova-Brick;
• 53 kg - Tatiana Azmetova-Amanzhol;
• 76 kg – Elmira Syzdykova.

Already this week our girls will fight for medals at the qualification tournament in the capital of Bulgaria in the period from 6 to 9 May this year in the weight categories:

• 57 kg – Altynai Satylgan
• 62 kg - Aina Temirtasova
• 68 kg - Zhamilya Bakbergenova.

We look forward to repeating our success on the Olympic platform in Tokyo.

We have many strong athletes who, year after year, prove the high level of Kazakhstani sports in general and women's wrestling in particular, and at the same time, the coaching staff is aimed at raising new winners. More and more girls are learning the wisdom of wrestling under the guidance of experienced qualified trainers, and their number is growing every year.

Department of Women's Wrestling
RGKP "Center for Olympic training" Nur-Sultan "

The Nur-Sultan Olympic Training Center has a women's wrestling department, which is engaged in improving the sports skills of athletes, preparing them for a successful performance in the international sports arena. Training is carried out in two ages - juniors and cadets.

The educational process in the "Nur-Sultan CSP" is carried out by:

Serik Alshimbaev – senior women's wrestling coach

among youth, coach of the highest category of the highest level,

"Master of Sports of the USSR".

Nadezhda Alimbetova - senior women's wrestling coach

among juniors, coach of the highest category of the highest level,

"Master of Sports RK".

Miruert Dynbaeva - senior women's wrestling coach

among cadets, coach of the highest category of the highest level,

"International Master of Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan".

Bakhytzhan Sailauov - senior women's wrestling coach

among girls, a coach of the first category of the highest level,

"Master of Sports RK".

The department includes 40 athletes aged & nbsp; from 15 to 20 years old, including MS RK - 4, KMS - 36, who are winners and prize-winners of the championships of the Republic of Kazakhstan and international competitions. The winners of the Asian Championship in different age groups are: Zaitseva Alexandra, Raimova Nilufar, Bayanova Zeynep, Shagaeva Altyn, Ganikyzy Laura, Zunova Moldir, Kaibullaeva Asem, Omirbek Shugyla, Sabyrzhanova Zhibekzhan.