| Current event or competition: 2025 World Sambo Championships | |
| Competition details | |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Sambo |
| Type | Annual |
| Organiser | Fédération Internationale de Sambo (FIAS) |
| History | |
| Editions | 46 (2021) |
TheWorld Sambo Championships are the main championships inSambo andCombat Sambo, organized by theFédération Internationale de Sambo (FIAS).[1]
The first World Sambo Cup took place in 1977 inOviedo, Spain.[2] Two years later, the first Youth World Championships were held inMadrid,Spain.
In 1984, an assembly of the Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées (FILA), now known as theUnited World Wrestling, chose to create an independent federation for sambo, the Fédération Internationale de Sambo (FIAS). On 13 June 1984, a constitutive General Assembly of the FIAS was held in Madrid, in which delegates from 56 countries took part.Fernando Compte was elected the first president of FIAS.
The first championships for women was held in 1984 inMadrid, Spain.[3][4]
1996 to 2020weight classes:[5]
| Men | 52 kg | 57 kg | 62 kg | 68 kg | 74 kg | 82 kg | 90 kg | 100 kg | +100 kg | Women | 48 kg | 52 kg | 56 kg | 60 kg | 64 kg | 68 kg | 72 kg | 80 kg | +80 kg |
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Since 2021 reduce to 7 weight.
Women's World Championships was held for the first time in 1984. In 1993 FIAS splits into 2 organisationsFIAS East (Russian control) andFIAS West (USA and Western European control) until 2005. In 2005 FILA reaches an agreement withFIAS West and re-assumes sanctioning over SAMBO but in 2008 FILA again discontinues sanctioning sambo. In 2014 FIAS and FILA sign a cooperative agreement:[6]
|}Note: C = Combat Sambo / S = Sport Sambo / W = Women Events
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