Pan American Wrestling Championships
Status	Active
Genre	Sports event
Date(s)	February – May
Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Various
Inaugurated	1977 (1977)
Most recent	2022
Next event	2023
Activity	Amateur wrestling
Organised by	FILA → UWW

The Pan American Wrestling Championships is the continental wrestling championships for nations from North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.^[1] Three wrestling styles, recognized internationally by UWW, have been contested annually since the inception, namely: Greco-Roman, freestyle and Sambo wrestling. Since 1997, women's freestyle has also been contested along with the mentioned wrestling styles.

History

Since the inception, Sambo wrestling has been contested jointly with the Olympic wrestling styles. National teams, including the U.S. team, featured a number of veteran Sambo athletes, along with experienced international wrestlers who have decided to compete in Sambo. From the 1980s to 2000s saw the period of separation until the 2006, when FILA again took Sambo under its control, and the Pan American Sambo Championships were expected to be included at the 2006 Pan American Wrestling Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The hosts in Brazil had difficulties that prevented the Sambo event to be included in the competition. USA Wrestling has agreed to host the Pan American Sambo Championships alongside its U.S. Sambo National Championships.^[2] In 2013 the Olympic styles and Sambo has been contested in Panama City, Panama. Following the inclusion of the Combat Sambo into the Pan American Sambo Championships programme, which isn't exactly a wrestling style, the two championships are being held separately.

Championships

Senior

Year	Host	Venue	Dates	Style	Events	Team Champion
1977	Mexico City	Social Center Gymnasium	September 29 – October 1	GR	10	USA
			September 29 – October 1	FS	10	USA
			September 28 – October 2	Sambo	10	USA
1979	San Diego	San Diego State University	August 29–31	Sambo	11	USA
1979	San Diego	San Diego State University		FS	10
1980	San Diego	San Diego State University	June 5–6	GR	10
			June 7–8	FS	10
			June	Sambo	10
1981	Mexico City		May 17–31	GR	10
1981	Mexico City		May 17–31	FS	10
1984	Mexico City			GR	10
1984	Mexico City			FS	10
1986	Colorado Springs	Olympic Training Center	September 18–20	GR	10	Cuba
1986	Colorado Springs	Olympic Training Center	September 18–20	FS	10	USA
1987	Offset of the results of the wrestling tournament at the 1987 Pan American Games, Indianapolis, USA			GR	10	Cuba
1987				FS	10	USA
1988	Newark	Essex County College	April 9	Sambo	10
	Mexico City		September 18–20	GR	10	Cuba
	Mexico City		September 18–20	FS	10	Cuba
1989	Colorado Springs	Olympic Training Center	June 13–15	GR	10	Cuba
1989	Colorado Springs	Olympic Training Center	June 13–15	FS	10	USA
1990	Colorado Springs	Olympic Training Center	June 13	GR	10	Cuba
1990	Colorado Springs	Olympic Training Center	June 13	FS	10	USA
1991	Offset of the results of the wrestling tournament at the 1991 Pan American Games, Havana, Cuba			GR	10	Cuba
1991				FS	10	USA
1992	Albany		January	GR	10	Cuba
	Albany		January	FS	10	USA
			June 1	Sambo
1993	Chula Vista	Chula Vista High School	April 24	Sambo	10
	Guatemala City		May 21	GR	10	Cuba
	Guatemala City		May 21	FS	10	USA
1994	Chula Vista	Southwestern College	26 March	Sambo	10
	Mexico City		May 20	GR	10	Cuba
	Mexico City		May 20	FS	10	USA
1997	San Juan		May 21	GR	8	Cuba
				FS	8	Cuba
				LF	6	USA
1998	Winnipeg		March 24–27	GR	8	Cuba
				FS	8	Cuba
				LF	6	Canada
2000	Cali		May 19	GR	8	Cuba
				FS	8	Cuba
				LF	6	USA
2001	Santo Domingo		May 14–18	GR	8	Cuba
				FS	8	Cuba
				LF	6	USA
2002	Maracaibo		May 14	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	Cuba
				LF	7	USA
2003	Guatemala City		May 18	GR	7	USA
				FS	7	USA
				LF	7	Venezuela
2004	Guatemala City		May 6	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	Cuba
				LF	7	USA
2005	Guatemala City		April 27	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	Cuba
				LF	7	Venezuela
2006	Rio de Janeiro		May 31	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	USA
				LF	7	USA
				LF	7	Venezuela
	North Palm Beach	North Palm Beach Community Center	August 19–20	Sambo	7
2007	San Salvador		May 18	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	Cuba
				FS	7	USA
				LF	7	Venezuela
2008	Colorado Springs		February 29	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	USA
				LF	7	USA
2009	Maracaibo		April 22	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	Cuba
				LF	7	USA
2010	Monterrey		April 28–30	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	Cuba
				LF	7	USA
2011	Rionegro		May 6	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	Cuba
				LF	7	Canada
2012	Colorado Springs		February 24–26	GR	7	Cuba
				FS	7	USA
				LF	7	USA
2013	Panama City	Gimnasio Beto Remon	April 5	GR	7	Cuba
			April 6	LF	7	Canada
			April 6–7	FS	7	Cuba
			April 6–7	FS	7	USA
			June 15–16	Sambo	17	Venezuela
2014	Mexico City		July 15–17	GR	8	Cuba
				FS	8	USA
				LF	8	Colombia
				LF	8	Canada
	Port of Spain		October 3–5	Sambo
2015	Santiago		April 22–27	GR	8	Cuba
				FS	8	USA
				LF	8	Canada
	Managua	University of Managua Gymnasium	September 5–6	Sambo	16
2016	Frisco		February 26–28	GR	8	Cuba
				FS	8	USA
				LF	8	USA
	Asunción		August 25–29	Sambo	17	USA
2017	Lauro de Freitas		May 5–7	GR	8	Cuba
				FS	8	USA
				LF	8	Canada
	Buga		July 6–10	Sambo	17	Venezuela
2018	Lima		May 3–6	GR	10	Cuba
				FS	10	USA
				LF	10	USA
	Acapulco		July 21–22	Sambo	17	Dominican Republic
2019	Buenos Aires		April 18–21	GR	10	USA
				FS	10	USA
				LF	10	USA
	Santo Domingo		July 28–29	Sambo	17	Dominican Republic
2020	Ottawa	Shaw Centre	March 6–9	GR	10	USA
				FS	10	USA
				LF	10	USA
	Cali		July 3–5	Sambo	17
2021	Guatemala City		May 27–30	GR	10	USA
				FS	10	USA
				LF	10	USA
2022	Acapulco		May 5–8	GR	10	USA
				FS	10	USA
				LF	10	USA
2023	Buenos Aires		May 3–7	GR	10	USA
				FS	10	USA
				LF	10	USA
2024	Acapulco		February 21–24	GR	10
				FS
				LF
				BW

Cuban Women's Team began participate in the LF event since the 2007' edition.

Youth

Youth (Espoir) Pan American Wrestling Championships

Year	Host	Dates	Style	Events	Team Champion
1979	Monterrey	May 21	GR	10	Canada
1979	Monterrey	May 21	FS	10	Cuba
1982	Cali^[3]	July 17–20	GR	10	USA
1982	Cali^[3]	July 17–20	FS	10

Junior

Junior Pan American Wrestling Championships for athletes aged 17–20 years (U21) predates the Senior Championships by one year.

Year	Host	Dates	Style	Events	Team Champion
1976	San Salvador	December 9–10	GR	10	Canada
1976	San Salvador	December 9–10	FS	10	Canada
1977	Quito^[4]	June 22–24	GR	10	Canada
1977	Quito^[4]	June 25–27	FS	10	USA
1978	Caracas^[5]	June 7–11	GR	10
1978	Caracas^[5]	June 7–11	FS	10
1979	San Luis Potosí	May 21–24	GR	10
1979	San Luis Potosí	May 21–24	FS	10
1980	Panama City^[6]	May 13–16
	San Juan	May 23–26	GR	10	USA
	San Juan	May 23–26	FS	10	Canada
1982	Caracas	July	GR	10
1982	Caracas	July	FS	10
1983	Mexico City	July ? – 7	GR	10	USA
1983	Mexico City	July ? – 7	FS	10	USA
1984	Mexico City	June 21 – July 1	GR	10
1984	Mexico City	June 21 – July 1	FS	10
1985	Cali	July 3	GR	13	USA
1985	Cali	July 3	FS	13	USA
1989	Santa Fe	June 22–25	GR	10
1989	Santa Fe	June 22–25	FS	10
1992	London	June ?–16	GR
1992	London	June ?–16	FS
1993	Cuba	"Summer"	GR
1993	Cuba	"Summer"	FS
1994		April	GR
1994		April	FS
1996	Colombia	April	GR
1996	Colombia	April	FS
2002	Bogota	June 7	GR	9	Cuba
			FS	9	Colombia
			LF	8	Colombia
			LF	8	Mexico
2004	Maracaibo	July 16	GR	8	Venezuela
			FS	8	Canada
			LF	8	Canada
			LF	8	Venezuela
2005	Maracaibo	June 29	GR	8	Venezuela
			FS	8	Venezuela
			LF	8	Venezuela
2006	Guatemala City	August 17	GR	8	Venezuela
			FS	8	Venezuela
			LF	8	Venezuela
2007	Maracaibo	June 22	GR	8	Venezuela
			FS	8	USA
			LF	8	USA
2008	Cuenca	June 20	GR	8	USA
			FS	8	USA
			LF	8	USA
2009	Guadalajara	September 23	GR	8	USA
		September 24	FS	8	Canada
		September 25	LF	8	USA
2010	Managua	July 9	GR	8	Ecuador
			GR	8	USA
			FS	8	Canada
			LF	8	Canada
2011	São Paulo	July 2	GR	8	USA
		July 1	FS	8	USA
		July 1	LF	8	USA
2012	Petén	June 6	GR	8	Dominican Republic
			FS	8	USA
			LF	8	USA
2013	Santiago	July 12	GR	8	Venezuela
			FS	8	USA
			LF	8	Venezuela
2014	Toronto	June 27–29	GR	8	USA
			FS	8	Canada
			LF	8	Canada
2015	Havana	May 6–8	GR	8	Cuba
			FS	8	USA
			LF	8	USA
2016	Barinas	June 10–12	GR	8	Venezuela
			FS	8	Venezuela
			LF	8	Venezuela
2017	Lima	June 9–11	GR	8	USA
			FS	8	USA
			LF	8	Canada
2018	Fortaleza	August 15–17	GR	10	USA
		August 17–19	FS	10	USA
		August 17–19	LF	10	Mexico
2019	Guatemala City	June 5–7	GR	10	USA
			FS	10	USA
			LF	10	USA
2020	Brasilia	July 10–12	GR	10	TBD
			FS	10	TBD
			LF	10	TBD
2022	Oaxtepec	July 8–10	GR	10	USA
			FS	10	ARG
			LF	10	USA
2024	Lima	July 11–14	FS
			GR
			WW
			BW

Cadet

Year	Host	Dates	Style	Events	Team Champion
1984	Buenos Aires	September 22	GR	13	Argentina
1985	Cali	July 3	GR	13	Colombia
1985	Cali	July 3	FS	13	Colombia
2000	Lima	July 16–24	GR
			FS
			LF
2003	Maracaibo	June 26	GR	10	Venezuela
			FS	10	Venezuela
			LF	10	Canada
			LF	10	Venezuela
2004	Cuenca	July 9	GR	10	Peru
			FS	10	Peru
			LF	9	Ecuador
2005	Santiago	August	GR
			FS
			LF
2010	Manaus		GR
			FS
			LF
2012	Maracaibo	July	GR
			FS
			LF
2014	Recife	May 2–4	GR
			FS
			LF
2015	Guadalajara	July 3–5	GR
			FS
			LF
2016	Lima	July 1–3	GR
			FS
			LF
2017	Buenos Aires	July 7–9	GR
			FS
			LF
2018	Guatemala City	May 25–27	GR
		May 26–27	LF
		May 26–27	FS
2019	Morelia	June 28–30	GR
			FS
			LF
2022	Buenos Aires	June 24–26	GR
			FS
			LF
2024	Santo Domingo	27–30 June	FS
			GR
			WW
			BW

U15

Year	Host	Dates	Style	Team Champion
2016	Medellin	October 7–9	GR
			FS
			LF
2017	Santiago	August 17–19	GR
			FS
			LF
2018	Villahermosa	September 13–15	GR
			FS
			LF
2019	Panama City	November 1–3	GR
			FS
			LF
2020	Managua	June 23–25	GR	TBD
			FS	TBD
			LF	TBD
2022	Apartado	November 4–6	GR
			FS
			LF
2024	San Salvador	13–16 June	FS
			GR
			WW

Team Championships

Pan American Team Championships

References

^ United World Wrestling Retrieved on November 2, 2019.
^ Pan American Sombo Championships to be held alongside U S Nationals in North Palm Beach Fla Aug 19 20 BY JOSH HENSON | JULY 05, 2006, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee Official Website
^ 1982 Junior Pan American Games wrestling event was held earlier in July, in Caracas, Venezuela. Known medalists include Roger Sayles of Mt. Hood Junior College in Oregon and Kenny Karl.
^ 1977 Junior Pan American Games wrestling event was held in Venezuela. Known medalists include Todd Rosenthal of the Illinois State University.
^ 1978 Junior Pan American Games wrestling event was held in Mexico.
^ 1980 Junior Pan American Games wrestling event was held in Canada.

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