Circular letters - Olympic Wrestling / Beach Wrestling

Official letters sent to National Federations to inform about decisions made by the UWW Congress, Executive Committee and/or Bureau: 

2026

• 17.06.2026 - Convening & Registration - Ordinary Congress 2026 - ENG-FRA
• 01.05.2026 - Call for Candidates - 2026 Bureau Elections
• 01.05.2026 - 2027, 2028 and 2029 UWW Calendars
• 16.03.2026 - Beach Wrestling Rules' amendments
• 02.02.2026 - Qualification System - Los Angeles 2028
• 21.01.2026 - UWW Uniform Regulations

2025

• 19.12.2025 - Refereeing in 2026
• 12.12.2025 - International Wrestling Rules changes
• 08.12.2025 - Information Regarding Future U15 European Championships
• 03.12.2025 - International Competition Regulations and Strict Enforcement of Accreditation Rules – Disciplinary Sanctions
• 08.12.2025 - Parawrestling Survey Report
• 04.12.2025 Change of Nationality Regulations - Amendments
• 03.10.2025 - Reminder on the obligation of handshakes before and after bouts
• 23.09.2025 - UWW Athletes Commission 2025-2029 - Election results
• 21.11.2025 - Participation in the 2026 FISU World University Championships Combat Sports
• 19.08.2025 - UWW Athletes Commission Election Process
• 05.08.2025 - Updated Dates for 2025 U23 World Championships and 2025 Senior Grappling World Championships
• 23.07.2025 - UWW Athletes Commission - List of candidates
• 01.07.2025 - Technical Assistance provided for the African Beach Wrestling Championships
• 30.06.2025 - Commissions' meetings schedule (2025 World Championship, Zagreb)
• 18.06.2025 - Adjustment to Tie-Breaking Rule in Greco-Roman Wrestling (1:1) – New Tests
• 17.06.2025 - New Location and Dates for 2025 U20 World Championships
• 12.06.2025 - UWW & Jet Set Sports partnership on hospitality
• 26.05.2025 - Call for candidacies - UWW Athletes Commission
• 23.04.2025 - Youth Olympic Games
• 27.03.2025 - GR Test at the Senior European Championships
• 17.03.2025 - ITA IF Webinars Series on Anti-doping
• 10.03.2025 - Amendment to the Change of Nationality Rules
• 06.03.2025 - Refereeing at United World Wrestling
• 26.02.2025 - Amendments to Regulations for International Transfers in Interclub Competitions
• 06.02.2025 - Appointement of UWW Commissions & Committees' Members
• 28.01.2025 - Reminder concerning access to UWW development progams

2024

• 17.12.2024 - Call for candidacies - UWW Refereeing Commission
• 12.11.2024 - Call for candidacies - UWW Commissions
• 11.11.2024 - New structure; Pankration and Grappling
• 11.11.2024 - Change of Nationality Rules
• 02.09.2024 - Convening & registration - Ordinary Congress 2024
• 25.06.2025 - Call for Candidates - 2024 Bureau Elections
• 21.06.2024 - Constitutional amendments
• 06.05.2024 - U15 & U20 Asian Championships reallocation
• 23.02.2024 - Updates regarding the 2024 UWW Calendar
• 08.01.2024 - UWW Uniforms Guidelines: requirements for singlets to be used in UWW events

 

2023

• 21.12.2023 - Adjustment of the Ranking Series' Rules
• 21.11.2023 - 2024 Ranking System - Olympic Qualifiers - Seeds
• 15.08.2023 - Opening of the BID Process for 2027 UWW Events
• 21.07.2023 - U20 World Championships’ decision
• 07.06.2023 - ITA Antidoping Webinar Series
• 06.06.2023 - Amendments of the UWW Team Rankings
• 16.05.2023 - Safeguarding Athletes
• 10.05.2023 - U17 European Championship - Participation & safety
• 02.05.2023 - Beach Wrestling - Refereeing in 2023
• 06.04.2023 - African Beach Games in Tunisia
• 07.03.2023 - Beach Wrestling World Series Calendar
• 06.03.2023 - Antidoping - TUEs' management by ITA
• 20.02.2023 - Entries, Deadlines, Draws
• 16.02.2023 - Beach Wrestling - ANOC World Beach Games
• 27.01.2023 - Refereeing in 2023 - complement
• 17.01.2023 - International Wrestling Rules' updates
• 19.01.2023 - European Games 2023 - Status of Wrestling

2022

• 23.12.2022 - 2023 Ranking Series
• 21.12.2022 - Refereeing in 2023
• 28.10.2022 - Information WC 2023 & BID for 2025, 2026, 2027 WC
• 10.10.2022 - Reminder on the Nationality Rules for Paris and OG qualifiers
• 23.06.2022 - Rules' Test / GP of Spain & Poland Open
• 13.06.2022 - ANOC World Beach Games - Bali 2023
• 14.04.2022 - Call for candidacies - UWW Bureau
• 23.02.2022 - Reminder - Taping & Singlets
• 16.02.2022 - Ranking System - Updates
• 11.02.2022 - Refereeing in 2022 - complement
• 25.01.2022 - New adjustments to the International Wrestling Rules
• 24.01.2022 - Appointment of UWW Commissions members
• 21.01.2022 - Appointment of new Secretary General
• 20.01.2022 - Ranking Series - Ranking System - Seeds

2021

• 24.12.2021 - 2022 Beach Wrestling World Series
• 21.12.2021 - Refereeing in 2022
• 09.12.2021 - Call for Candidates UWW Refereeing Commission
• 09.11.2021 - Call for Candidates UWW Commissions
• 12.11.2021 - New naming of age categories
• 15.10.2021 - Call for BIDs 2025 Events
• 13.09.2021 - Registered candidates for the Athletes' Commission
• 26.08.2021 - 2021 Ranking Series
• 25.08.2021 - Selected referees for the 2021 Senior World Championships
• 25.08.2021 - 2021 African Championships
• 11.08.2021 - Call for candidates - Athletes' Commission
• 02.07.2021 - Referee clinics for the second part of the year
• 14.06.2021 - Entries - Deadlines - Substitutes
• 20.05.2021 - Selected ITOs for the Olympic Games
• 17.05.2021 - 2021 Beach Wrestling World Series Announcement
• 12.03.2021 - 2021 African and Oceania Olympic Qualification Tournament
• 03.02.2021 - Refereeing in 2021
• 25.01.2021 - 3D Drawings for Organizers
• 01.02.2021 - Seeds - Qualifiers Tokyo - Oslo

 

2020

• 23.12.2020 - 2021 Change of Sporting Nationality
• 23.12.2020 - Refereeing in 2021
• 22.12.2020 - 2021 Provisional Calendar
• 26.11.2020 - 2021 Oceania Championships
• 13.11.2020 - 2020 Individual World Cup
• 22.10.2020 - Licenses 2020 & 2021
• 12.10.2020 - Junior - Senior World Championships - Decision
• 02.10.2020 - Junior - Senior World Championships
• 24.09.2020 - 2021 and 2022 UWW Calendars
• 22.09.2020 - Junior - Senior World Championships
• 15.05.2020 - Roadmap for Future
• 04.05.2020 - Updated Qualification System / Tokyo 2020
• 28.04.2020 - Information on UWW headquarters
• 08.04.2020 - Call for candidacies - UWW Bureau
• 06.04.2020 - Decisions regarding UWW Calendar - OG qualifiers
• 30.03.2020 - Situation on 30 March 2020 - OG New dates, qualfiiers, UWW Calendar
• 17.03.2020 - Amendments in the Regulations and Wrestling Rules
• 12.03.2020 - World Olympic Qualifier postponed
• 11.03.2020 - European Olympic Qualifier postponed
• 06.03.2020 - Situation linked with the covid19
• 05.03.2020 - African and Oceania Olympic Qualifier postponed
• 06.02.2020 - Detailed explanations about the Draw Technology - Blockchain
• 03.02.2020 - 2020 Asian OG Qualifier - update
• 27.01.2020 - 2020 Asian OG Qualifier
• 15.01.2020 - Paralympic Wrestling - Vision impairment

2019

• 20.12.2019 Sports Nationality at Olympic Games
• 20.12.2019 - Refereeing in 2020
• 10.12.2019 - Draw, Wrestling Rules and Olympic Qualifiers
• 09.12.2019 - New World Cup Format
• 22.10.2019 - Registration Process and Accommodation Fee
• 09.10.2019 - 2020 Ranking Series
• 20.09.2019 - Guidelines for Recognition of 3rd Party Events
• 10.09.2019 - New Referee Uniform
• 05.09.2019 - Bureau Decisions / Ranking Series and Olympic Qualifiers
• ​ 05.08.2019 - Selected referees for the 2019 Senior World Championships
• 29.05.2019 - Eligibility to the Olympic Games after a Change of Sport Nationality
• 16.05.2019 - ANOC Beach Games - Universality Places
• 23.02.2019 - Beach Wrestling World Series
• 12.02.2019 - World Cups' draw
• 08.02.2019 - Selection Process for the Referees - Tokyo 2020

2018

• 26.12.2018 - Refereeing in 2019
• 24.12.2018 - 2019 Ranking System, 2019 Wrestling Rules and Registration process
• 19.12.2018 - International Testing Agency
• 14.12.2018 Eligibility to Olympic Games & Games after a change of UWW Sports Nationality
• 12.12.2018 - Wrestlers' National Level License
• 03.10.2018 - Top Seeds Budapest
• 22.08.2018 - Bureau Meeting Decisions (Sports)
• 15.08.2018 - 2019 Ranking Series
• 13.08.2018 - Selected referees for the 2018 Senior World Championships
• 04.07.2018 - Registrations for the 2018 Senior World Championships
• 07.06.2018 - Convening to 2018 Ordinary Congress
• 30.05.2018 - Referees' clinic
• 25.05.2018 - Periodicity - 2019 - 2020 - 2021
• 27.04.2018 - New referee uniform for 2018 (2)
• 18.04.2018 - Call for Candidates - Bureau elections
• 03.04.2018 - 2018 Cadet European Championships
• 28.03.2018 - New referee uniform for 2018
• 15.03.2018 - 2018 Wrestling Rules
• 18.01.2018 - Eligibility to the 2018 Youth Olympic Games

2017

• 10.11.2017 - Clinic for I S referees
• 10.11.2017 - 2018 Changes
• 08.11.2017 Amendment to the Rules of the Change of Sports Nationality
• 26.10.2017 - Selection of the referees for the Youth Olympic Games 2018
• 27.06.2017 - Athletes Commission election - Process
• 16.06.2017 - Golden Grand Prix
• 24.05.2017 - Safety precautions - Paris 2017
• 04.05.2017 - 2nd theoretical courses and IS referees exams
• 20.04.2017 - IS Referees
• 10.04.2017 - Top Seeds - Paris 2017
• 24.03.2017 - 2 days competition format
• 21.03.2017 - Licensed mats
• 21.03.2017 - Maccabiah Games 2017
• 17.03.2017 - 2018 changes
• 08.03.2017 - New Program for the referees courses
• 28.02.2017 - Traditional styles - Participation International events
• 27.02.2017 - Senior U23 World Championships
• 23.02.2017 - Maccabiah Games 2017
• 09.02.2017 - Licenses and registrations 2017
• 09.02.2017 - Licenses and registration 2017 Spanish version

2016

• 21.12.2016 - Athletes Commission Candidacies - deadline
• 13.12.2016 - 2017 License reminder
• 13.12.2016 - 2017 License reminder (Español)
• 21.11.2016 - Updates and Obligations with Athena
• 03.11.2016 - Amendments to transfers regulations
• 29.09.2016 - Call for candidates - Commissions
• 14.10.2016 - New Uniforms Update
• 14.10.2016 - New Uniforms Update Spanish
• 07.10.2016 - Cadet Continental Championships
• 08.09.2016 - Posicion Ordenada en Tierra para Adultos
• 08.09.2016 - Ordered Parterre Position for Seniors
• 30.06.2016 - Licenses for Veteran Athletes to be purchased via Athena
• 28.06.2016 - Reminder concerning the New Referee Uniform
• 31.05.2016 - Senior World Championships in the non-Olympic weight categories
• 25.05.2016 - Golden Grand Prix
• 20.05.2016 - Candidacy for the Technical Commission
• 15.04.2016 - Reminder concerning the New Referee Uniform
• 06.04.2016 - New Uniforms Rio 2016
• 04.04.2016 - Athena registration OG Qualifying tournaments 
• 04.04.2016 - Athena registration OG Qualifying tournaments (Spanish version)
• 24.02.2016 - Circular New Uniform Guidelines Rio 2016
• 24.02.2016 - Guidelines New Uniforms Rio 2016
• 24.02.2016 - New Referee Uniform
• 12.02.2016 - Cadet Continental Championships
• 12.02.2016 - Cadet Continental Championships (Spanish version)

2015

• 22.12.2015 - Refereeing in 2016 and list of the officials for the Olympic Games 2016
• 07.12.2015 - 2016 Registered Testing Pool for out-of-competition testing
• 15.11.2015 - Athena - Inscription and accreditation
• 11.11.2015 - 2016 referee s license and referee s categories
• 05.11.2015 - 2016 License procedure and registration with Athena 
• 03.11.2015 - 2016 License procedure and registration with Athena (Spanish version) 
• 09.07.2015 - Participation in Las Vegas after a change of sporting nationality - Cancellation of the athlete s book
• 09.07.2015 - Participation in Las Vegas after a change of sporting nationality - Cancellation of the athlete s book (Spanish)
• 03.07.2015 - International Referees – Las Vegas (USA)
• 01.07.2015 - Implementation of the new platform «Athena» for competition management
• 18.05.2015 - New "Athena" platform for athlete management, available on 1st June, 2015
• 18.05.2015 - New "Athena" platform for athlete management, available on 1st June, 2015 - Spanish version
• 28.04.2015 - Greco-Roman Wrestling rules
• 28.04.2015 - Greco-Roman Wrestling rules (Spanish)
• 26.03.2015 - Change of sporting nationality
• 12.03.2015 - Greco-Roman rules
• 20.01.2015 - Prices of licences sold during 2015 competitions

2014

• 22.12.2014 - Traditional styles
• 08.12.2014 - Tickets for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games
• 19.11.2014 - European Championship U23
• 07.08.2014 - Calendar Congress - Tashkent
• 03.07.2014 - Broadcasting rights during the 2014 senior world championship
• 23.05.2014 - Referees category during the 2014 Senior World Championship
• 19.03.2014 - Referees category during the 2014 Senior European Championship
• 07.02.2014 - Update to Wrestling Rules (January 2014)
• 31.01.2014 - Referees Qualifications for the 2014 YOG
• 14.01.2014 - Call for candidacies

Previous years

• 17.12.2013 - New weight categories & amendments to the wrestling rules
• 20.08.2013 - Reminder - Annual Medical Certificate - Pre-competition Medical Examination
• 10.07.2013 - Convening and Agenda for the Calendar Congress
• 11.06.2013 - Information training for referees
• 26.03.2013 - New price for the licences for cadet athletes
• 12.02.2013 - Participation to the 2018 Commonwealth Games
• 14.01.2013 - Obligations to participate in World Champ. and Obligations for the Olympic Referees (Circular in Spanish here)
• 30.11.2012 - New media coordinator
• 26.11.2012 - Information on the start of the University licence "Master" in Wrestling
• 13.11.2012 - 2013 Tournaments entries
• 09.11.2012 - Annual medical certificate (Circular en español)
• Blank example of an annual medical certificate
• 06.11.2012 - Passport copy required for the candidates to the FILA auxiliary bodies
• 06.11.2012 - Circular testing pool 2013
• 16.10.2012 - Olympic Solidarity Scholarships 2013 - 2016 for African countries
• 11.10.2012 - Candidacies for the Oceania Continental Council s elections
• 11.10.2012 - Candidacies for the American Continental Council s elections
• 11.10.2012 - Candidacies for the European Continental Council s elections
• 11.10.2012 - Candidacies for the African Continental Council s elections
• 11.10.2012 - Candidacies for the Asian Continental Council s elections
• 09.10.2012 - List of 2013 Referees 
• 25.08.2012 - Departments Candidacies
• 11.07.2012 - Late replacement of an athlete at the Olympic Games
• 03.07.2012 - Advanced Schools for Coaches in 3 styles
• 27.06.2012 - Miscellaneous information - Olympic Games
• 11.06.2012 - Wrestling rules for Referees at the Olympic Games
• 06.06.2012 - Whereabouts FILA testing pool - 3rd quarter
• 01.06.2012 - Medical certificate
• 01.06.2012 - Female wrestlers hair
• 24.04.2012 - Mendatory FILA licence for cadets
• 21.03.2012 - New price of the engagement fee
• 22.02.2012 - Modification Rules
• 07.02.2012 - Reminder to organizers : Medical Certificate
• 20.01.2012 - Therapeutic Use Exemptions
• 03.01.2012 - Recommendations to Instructors : 2012 Wrestling Rules
• 07.01.2011 - Wrestlers Singlet
• 07.01.2011 - Referes Uniform
• 31.01.2011 - Referees activities in 2011
• 25.02.2011 - Albanian Wrestling Federation
• 15.03.2011 - Wrestlers Book
• 01.06.2011 - Convening to the second Calendar Congress
• 17.06.2011 - Convening to the 2011 Extraordinary Congress
• 21.06.2011 - Submission of the bid documents to FILA
• 15.07.2011 - FILA logos in official competitions
• 05.08.2011 - New price of the engagement fee and licence
• 25.08.2011 - Biometric data to enter the United Kingdom
• 26.08.2011 - Reconnaissance du Kosovo
• 02.09.2011 - International Referees
• 22.09.2011 - Wrestlers Singlet (2)
• 23.09.2011 - 2012-2013 Calendars
• 09.11.2011 - Official FILA email address of National Federations
• 10.11.2011 - FS-GR FILA Advanced School for Coaches
• 12.12.2011 - Amendments of Greco-Roman Rules