AngelRaychev/armwrestling-archives

Armwrestling Archives - Complete Competition Results

A comprehensive dataset of armwrestling competition results scraped from The Armwrestling Archives, covering events from 1955 to 2025.

Dataset Description

This dataset contains 19,636 individual competition results from 5,646 unique armwrestlers (pullers), aggregated from 110 event result pages spanning 70 years of organized armwrestling history.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Canonical name of the puller (deduplicated)
event	string	Clean event name with year (e.g., "AAA National Championships 2006")
year	int	Competition year (0 if unknown)
placement	int	Finishing position (1 = winner, 2 = runner-up, etc.)
hand	string	"Left" or "Right"
gender	string	"Men", "Women", or ""
weight_class	string	Weight class (e.g., "80 kg", "154 lbs", "Open")
age_group	string	Age group (e.g., "Senior", "Junior", "U-18", "Masters", "Novice")
category_raw	string	Original unparsed category string
source_page	string	URL of the source page

Nested JSON

The file armwrestling_dataset.json contains the same data in a nested structure grouped by puller name, with all their results in an array. Each puller entry includes:

• name, total_results, events_competed, events (list), results (list of dicts)

Data Processing

1. Scraping: All 110 event result pages from thearmwrestlingarchives.com
2. Parsing: 13+ result formats handled (numbered placements, champion/runner-up, supermatch scores, head-to-head PAL/Arm Wars format, etc.)
3. Deduplication: TF-IDF cosine similarity on character n-grams with manual verification of ~2,500 candidate pairs
4. Category parsing: Raw category strings parsed into structured hand/gender/weight/age fields
5. Event normalization: Cleaned event names with year extraction

Coverage

• Events: WAF, AAA, USAF, USAA, IFA, EAF, PAL, WAL, UAL, Arnold Classic, Zloty Tur/Nemiroff Cup, King of the Table, East vs. West, and many more
• Time span: 1955 to 2025
• Geography: International (North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania)

Attribution

All data sourced from The Armwrestling Archives by Eric Roussin, Armwrestling Historian.