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Watch Live: 2025 European U20 Championships, Italy

Monday, June 30, 2025 - 06:41 By United World Wrestling Press

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CAORLE, Italy (June 30) — The European U20 Championships begins in Caorle, Italy on Monday, June 30 and will run till July 6 with close to 500 wrestling fighting it out for the 30 gold medals on offer.

The tournament will kick off with Greco-Roman in five weight classes. Women’s Wrestling will begin Wednesday and Freestyle will close out the tournament.

For full schedule of European U20 Championships, click here.

WATCH LIVE: MAT A, MAT B and MAT C

For live match order of the day, click here.

For brackets of Greco-Roman, Freestyle and Women’s Wrestling, click here.

The qualification rounds will begin at 1000 hours local time and medal bouts will begin at 1800 hours local time. The semifinals will be held at 1645 hours each day barring Monday, on which the semifinals will start at 1800 hours as there no medal bouts.

For all results, click here.

For all photos, click here.

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UWW to continue tests for Greco-Roman tie-breaker rule

Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:18 By United World Wrestling Press

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CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (June 19) — The Technical Commission of United World Wrestling has decided to further test the tie-breaking rule for Greco-Roman bouts that end with a 1-1 score.

UWW had announced in March that it would test a new Greco-Roman rule at the European Championships in April. This rule awarded victory in a 1-1 Greco-Roman bout to the wrestler who scored the first technical point.

Testing at the European Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia yielded positive results. However, to fully evaluate the rule, the Commission agreed to conduct further tests at more events.

Beginning with the U15 European Championships in Caorle, Italy from June 25, all future events till the 2025 World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia will be conducted under the new rule which awards the victory to the wrestler who scored the first technical point if the match ends 1-1. This means that the 2025 World Championships in Zagreb will be part of the testing.

The change comes after it was unanimously acknowledged that the existing rule, which awards victory to the athlete who scores the last point, may unintentionally encourage passivity at the start of the bout. Wrestlers could strategically aim to secure a passivity point in the second period, ultimately winning the match without demonstrating consistent engagement throughout.

UWW once again stresses that the modification will be implemented exclusively for Greco-Roman and will apply only to matches that end with a 1-1 score. For all other score scenarios, the existing wrestling rules will remain in effect.