and July 6, 1988, respectively, both held at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana. Next year it was contested at the 1989 AAU/Carrier Grand National Wrestling Championships on July 5 at Metra in Billings, Montana. 1990 AAU Grand National Wrestling Championships also hosted a national Sambo competition at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 10. 1992 AAU Grand National edition hosted a national Sambo competition in July in Amarillo, Texas. 1994 AAU Grand National Wrestling Championships also hosted a national Sambo competition at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek, Michigan on July 13. 1995 AAU Grand National edition hosted a national Sambo competition in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The 1999 AAU Grand National Wrestling Championships also offered Sambo to competitors on June 30 at Metra in Billings, Montana. The 2002 AAU Grand National Wrestling Championships saw Sambo competition on June 19 at Hirsch Coliseum in Shreveport, Louisiana. USA Wrestling has added Sambo as a style since the 2007 U.S. National Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada. Notable practitioners Name controversy Although sambo is a Russian acronym, exponents of the sport in the English-speaking world have faced problems concerning the linguistically unrelated racist term. Sambo representatives have opted to use the alternative spelling Sombo to avoid offence. In Swedish, "sambo" is the term for an unmarried couple living together on permanent basis. FIAS references the sport with its acronym spelling: SAMBO. The name "Sambo" itself is already well-known because of the controversy in Indonesia caused by the shootout between the police that killed Brigadier Yoshua at 2022. LAKAKA See also Judo References Sources FILA Sombo Rules – May 2006 Sombo – A Style of Wrestling Creation of Sambo – by Michail Lukashev, first published in Physical Culture and Sport magazine N9-10/91. Classical SAMBO – with many examples and pictures. About Sombo – sambo overview at AnyMartialArt.org CST Magazine Interview with Steve Koepfer from the American Sambo Association – information about combat and Freestyle sambo. New York Times Article and Video covering the history of sambo – published 19 July 2008. LA Talk Radio's Kip Brown discusses sambo on In The Can – Aired 13 September 2008. G4 Network's Attack of the Show covers sambo Aired 1 October 2008. – Aired 22 October 2008 Slate.com covers sambo training in Russia, the 2008 FIAS World Championships, and Fedor Emilianenko – published 23–27 February 2009 Injury shake up unearths political controversy at USA SAMBO Open