Combat Sports

Combat Sports book cover — ContentsContents 4 Going for Gold 6 Boxing 12 Judo 16 Wrestling 20 Tae Kwon Do 24 Fencing 28 Gold Medal Greats 30 Glossary 31 Books and Web Sites 32 Index

Combat Sports — page 1 — 4 The Olympics is the greatest sporting event on Earth Every four years thousands of athletes known as Olympians spend their summer in one city There they compete against the very best in their sport hoping to win a highly-prized Olympic gold silver or bronze medal Ancient Olympics The ancient Greeks held games at Olympia from 776 BC for more than a thousand years At ﬁrst they competed only in running events but after 708 BC wrestling matches were included and later a form of boxing Ancient Greek boxers could hit opponents when they were on the ﬂoor and wore leather thongs called himantes around their hands instead of gloves Going for Gold Hungarian fencer Aladar Gerevich won more gold medals than any other combat contestant at an Olympics He won a staggering seven gold medals between 1932 and 1960 Superstar Tajikistan’s Yusup Abdusalomov in red tries to throw Revazi Mindorashvili of Georgia during an Olympic freestyle wrestling match Mindorashvili won a gold medal

Combat Sports

Combat Sports

An introduction to a variety of combat sports, including boxing, judo, wrestling, tae kwon do, and fencing.

About This Book

By: Clive Gifford

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Published by: Amicus provided by the Creative Company

9-12Age Range

7.5AR

30Pages

Other SportsSubject

1170LLexile

15-30 minsReading Time

ZGuided Reading

ZFountas & Pinnell

80DRA

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