Wrestling Association of the Philippines

Wrestling Association of the Philippines (WAP) is the governing sports organization for wrestling in the Philippines, and maintains the Philippines National Wrestling Team.

National 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:

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation
32	{{{pos}}}	PHI
2	{{{pos}}}	PHI
13	{{{pos}}}	USA
16	{{{pos}}}	ENG
21	{{{pos}}}	PHI
85	{{{pos}}}	PHI
22	{{{pos}}}	ITA
14	{{{pos}}}	PHI
10	{{{pos}}}	ENG
23	{{{pos}}}	ENG
4	{{{pos}}}	PHI
45	{{{pos}}}	PHI

Flags denote Nation of Citizenship.

Age-Groups[]

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
Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	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

Reference[]

Philippine Olympic Committee

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