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A wrestling mat has a 9-metre circle
The mat is 12 metres square, with the contest held inside the inner circle A red band marks the passivity zone and a central circle marks the starting position. A wrestler who flees the mat or steps out is penalised. The surface is a foam mat covered with a non-slip vinyl sheet. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A wrestling mat has a 9-metre circle: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The mat is 12 metres square, with the contest held inside the inner circle. The figure is taken from United World Wrestling, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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