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A pin, or a '''fall''', is a victory condition in various forms of Wrestling that is met by holding an opponent's Shoulder Blades to the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.

  • In American high school Folkstyle wrestling, a pin must be held for two full seconds.

  • In American Collegiate folkstyle wrestling, a pin must be held for one full second.

  • In Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling worldwide, and in America for 15-year-olds and above, a pin must be held long enough for the referee to count "21, 22" in French (pronounced "vingt-et-un, vingt deux").

  • In America, in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling for schoolboys (14 years old and below), a pin must be held for two full seconds.

  • In Professional Wrestling , a Pin must nominally be held for three full seconds, but the Staged nature of the sport makes this a somewhat ephemeral requirement.


In amateur wrestling, situations which are almost pins but, for example, have only one shoulder down or have the defending wrestler blocked in a neck bridge are rewarded with near-fall points in order to encourage wrestlers to take risks to try to pin their opponents.

Under the 2004-2005 changes to the FILA rules, amateur wrestling moved to a three-period situation in which each period is a separate match. The pin is an exception - it ends a match outright, unlike the period-only victories awarded by Technical Fall or decision on points.