HISTORY OF WORLD O-SPORT / WORLD OMNI HYBRID SPORTS FEDERATION (WOF)
The World O-Sport / World Omni Hybrid Sports Federation (WOF) is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-political international sports organization responsible for the development and organization of Hybrid Sports disciplines.
The organization was founded on December 15, 2005, by Dr. Mohammad Ghasem Manouchehri, a World Champion in Kickboxing and Thai Boxing, and began its activities under the name Oriental Combat Sports.
In 2008, at the WOF General Assembly in Bangkok, Thailand, and with the approval of its members, the name and structure of the organization were changed to Obstacle Combat Sports. The brand O-Sport, derived from the shortened name of Obstacle Combat Sports, subsequently developed into a multi-stage sports system in the international sports arena.
As a continuation of this evolutionary process, on December 15, 2018, at the WOF General Assembly in Hamedan, Iran, the concept and title of Omni Hybrid Sports were proposed and approved by the WOF members. O-Sport thereby entered a new stage of development as a multi-stage Hybrid Sports system.
In 2023, at the WOF General Assembly in Cheboksary, Russia, new formats of Omni Hybrid Sports were officially unveiled and introduced. This marked a further stage in the development of new competitive and operational formats of Omni Hybrid Sports.
In 2025, at the WOF General Assembly in Kermanshah, Iran, the rules and regulations of Omni Hybrid Sports were reviewed and updated, further completing and refining its technical and competitive framework.
All of these rebrandings and structural developments have not represented separate or disconnected changes to the identity of WOF. Rather, they have been successive stages in the completion and development of the organization's original concept, evolving from Combat Sports and Obstacle Sports toward a comprehensive, integrated, multi-stage, and hybrid sports system.
The technical structure of O-Sport / Omni Hybrid Sports encompasses a range of hybrid formats, including:
OXIAN / AHMATAN — Combat Hybrid
TIRAZIS — Beach & Winter Hybrid Relay
This structure has been developed to integrate combat skills, movement, speed, agility, obstacles, physical fitness, functional competitions, artistic performance, and mental abilities within a unified framework of hybrid and multi-stage sports.
WORLD O-SPORT Registration & Recognition in the Olympic Movement:
- Signed Strategic MOU with Obstacle Combat Sports( O-Sport) Complex of Hamedan (17 /12 / 2005)
- Registered at Physical Education Organization of I.R. Iran (28/01/2007)
- Member of International sport for all games (Trex Games 2008)
- Registered at instruments and landed property registration organization of I.R. Iran (09/06/2009(
- Member of World Anti-Doping Agency WADA (25/09/2010)
- Member of Association for international sport for all TAFISA (08/09/2010)
- Signed Strategic MOU with Azad University of Hamedan (08/10/2013) Registered at National Olympic Committee of I.R. Iran (26/04/2011)
- Registered at youth & sport ministry of I.R. Iran (16/08/2014)
- Signed Strategic MOU with Hamedan Red Crescent Society (01/02/2015)
- Member of Global Humanitarian Games (GHG) (28/04/2016)
- Member of World Sports Games WSG (02/02/2017)
- Member of World Elite Games WEG (21/10/2017)
- Member of International Extreme Games (10/01/2018)
- Signed Strategic MOU with Red Crescent Society of Iran (06/05/2019)
Member of GAAPSF SportAcord Asian Pacific (06/06/2019)
Signed Strategic MOU with World Association of Tag Organizations (11/08/2019)
Signed Strategic MOU with International Mixed Martial Arts Confederation (IMMAC) (12/01/2020)
Signed Strategic MOU with International Slingshot Confederation (ISC) (12/01/2020)