Wrestling Association of the Philippines (WAP) is the governing sports organization for wrestling in the Philippines, and maintains the Philippines National Wrestling Team.
The Philippines also competes against teams from Asia. They are promoting grassroots involvement with their national team and have signed Filipino's from around the globe as well as the homeland to compete in tournaments.** This is the current starting squad for the Philippines friendly vs. Malaysia as of December 5, 2009:
Flags denote Nation of Citizenship.
The Olympic sport of Greco-Roman and Freestyle wrestling is broken down into three age group levels: Cadets(16-17 yrs.old), Juniors (18-20 yrs.old), and Seniors (20 yrs.old and above). Each group follows different weight categories, as follows:
CADETS | JUNIORS | SENIORS | |||||||||
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align=center bgcolor="#D2B48C" | Male | align=center bgcolor="#FFF8E7" | Female | align=center bgcolor="#D2B48C" | Male | align=center bgcolor="#FFF8E7" | Female | align=center bgcolor="#D2B48C" | Male | align=center bgcolor="#FFF8E7" | Female |
50 kg | 44 kg | 55 kg | 48 kg | ||||||||
60 kg | 51 kg | ||||||||||
66 kg | 55 kg | ||||||||||
74 kg | 59 kg | ||||||||||
84 kg | 63 kg | ||||||||||
96 kg | 67 kg | ||||||||||
120 kg | 72 kg |