Editing Judo (section)

===[[Sambo (martial art)|Sambo]]===
Sambo is influenced by judo combined with [[wrestling]] techniques, and striking in case of [[Combat Sambo|combat sambo]]. [[Vasili Oshchepkov]] was one of the first European judo black belts under Kano. Oshchepkov went on to contribute his knowledge of judo as one of the three founders of Sambo, which also integrated various international and [[Soviet bloc]] wrestling styles and other combative techniques. Oshchepkov was executed during the political [[Great Purge|purges]] of 1937 and judo was banned for decades until its inclusion in the [[Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Olympics]], where sambists won 4 bronze medals.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Egorov |first=Boris |date=May 29, 2019 |title=Why Vladimir Putin would have struggled to be a black belt in the Soviet Union |url=https://www.rbth.com/history/330421-vladimir-putin-judo |website=Russia Beyond}}</ref> In their ''History of Sambo'', Brett Jacques and Scott Anderson wrote that in Russia "judo and SOMBO were considered to be the same thing"—albeit with a different uniform and some differences in the rules.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/stratfordsombo/articles/history-2.html |title=The History of Sombo |website=Members.tripod.com |access-date=February 21, 2016}}</ref>