The event, scheduled to take place in 2024 Summer Olympic bid city Budapest on December 10 and 11, will be hosted by the Hungarian Wrestling Federation.

World Championships in all 24 style and weight categories are held in non-Olympic years, but until now, an Olympic-year event for weight classes not included at the Games hadn't been on the calendar.

"We are pleased that the Hungarian Wrestling Federation has taken on the responsibility of this important Championship," said UWW President Nenad Lalovic.

"This tournament will give more wrestlers the chance to seek a world title, even in an Olympic year.

"Our athletes work hard year round for their sport and we are pleased to give them an opportunity for more medals."

The World Championship will feature women's wrestling at 55 kilograms and 60kg, freestyle at 61kg and 70kg, and Greco-Roman at 71kg and 80kg.

Wrestling has been a part of every Olympics since the 1900 event in Paris but was briefly cut from the programme in February 2013, before being reinstated in September of the same year after beating baseball/softball and squash with 49 votes to ensure it maintained its place in the Games after Rio 2016. 

Lalović told insidethegames in September that wrestling is exploring the reintroduction of Greco-Roman contests for women.

While the decision would not be wrestling’s alone, it could be feasible for women’s Greco-Roman wrestling medals to be awarded at the 2024 Olympics. 

The absence of women’s Greco-Roman events has meant that Olympic wrestling remains significantly weighted towards men at a time when sports are coming under pressure to move towards gender equality.

Of 18 wrestling medal events at London 2012, only four were for women.

This total is rising to six events out of 18 at Rio 2016.