Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured two disciplines, freestyle and Greco-Roman, which were further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only participated in the freestyle events, with 18 gold medals awarded. Wrestling had been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except Paris 1900.[1][failed verification]

Wrestling
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
VenueMakuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan
Dates1–7 August 2021
No. of events18
Competitors289 from 61 nations
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Around 288 wrestlers were expected to compete in 18 events at the 2020 Summer Olympics which was postponed in March 2020 and planned for 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Competition format

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16 wrestlers compete in each division. The competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists face off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who loses to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket.

Competition schedule

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R Repechage R16 Round of 16 QF Quarter-Finals SF Semi-Finals F Finals
Schedule[3][4]
Event↓/Date → Aug 1 Aug 2 Aug 3 Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7
M E M E M E M E M E M E M E
Men's Freestyle
57kg R16 QF SF R F
65kg R16 QF SF R F
74kg R16 QF SF R F
86kg R16 QF SF R F
97kg R16 QF SF R F
125kg R16 QF SF R F
Women's Freestyle
50kg R16 QF SF R F
53kg R16 QF SF R F
57kg R16 QF SF R F
62kg R16 QF SF R F
68kg R16 QF SF R F
76kg R16 QF SF R F
Men's Greco-Roman
60kg R16 QF SF R F
67kg R16 QF SF R F
77kg R16 QF SF R F
87kg R16 QF SF R F
97kg R16 QF SF R F
130kg R16 QF SF R F

Qualification

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Medalists

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Men's freestyle

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
57 kg
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Zaur Uguev
  ROC
Ravi Kumar
  India
Nurislam Sanayev
  Kazakhstan
Thomas Gilman
  United States
65 kg
details
Takuto Otoguro
  Japan
Haji Aliyev
  Azerbaijan
Gadzhimurad Rashidov
  ROC
Bajrang Punia
  India
74 kg
details
Zaurbek Sidakov
  ROC
Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau
  Belarus
Kyle Dake
  United States
Bekzod Abdurakhmonov
  Uzbekistan
86 kg
details
David Taylor
  United States
Hassan Yazdani
  Iran
Artur Naifonov
  ROC
Myles Amine
  San Marino
97 kg
details
Abdulrashid Sadulaev
  ROC
Kyle Snyder
  United States
Reineris Salas
  Cuba
Abraham Conyedo
  Italy
125 kg
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Gable Steveson
  United States
Geno Petriashvili
  Georgia
Amir Hossein Zare
  Iran
Taha Akgül
  Turkey

Men's Greco-Roman

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 kg
details
Luis Orta
  Cuba
Kenichiro Fumita
  Japan
Walihan Sailike
  China
Sergey Emelin
  ROC
67 kg
details
Mohammad Reza Geraei
  Iran
Parviz Nasibov
  Ukraine
Frank Stäbler
  Germany
Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed
  Egypt
77 kg
details
Tamás Lőrincz
  Hungary
Akzhol Makhmudov
  Kyrgyzstan
Shohei Yabiku
  Japan
Rafig Huseynov
  Azerbaijan
87 kg
details
Zhan Beleniuk
  Ukraine
Viktor Lőrincz
  Hungary
Denis Kudla
  Germany
Zurabi Datunashvili
  Serbia
97 kg
details
Musa Evloev
  ROC
Artur Aleksanyan
  Armenia
Tadeusz Michalik
  Poland
Mohammad Hadi Saravi
  Iran
130 kg
details
Mijaín López
  Cuba
Iakobi Kajaia
  Georgia
Rıza Kayaalp
  Turkey
Sergey Semenov
  ROC

Women's freestyle

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 kg
details
Yui Susaki
  Japan
Sun Yanan
  China
Mariya Stadnik
  Azerbaijan
Sarah Hildebrandt
  United States
53 kg
details
Mayu Mukaida
  Japan
Pang Qianyu
  China
Vanesa Kaladzinskaya
  Belarus
Bat-Ochiryn Bolortuyaa
  Mongolia
57 kg
details
Risako Kawai
  Japan
Iryna Kurachkina
  Belarus
Helen Maroulis
  United States
Evelina Nikolova
  Bulgaria
62 kg
details
Yukako Kawai
  Japan
Aisuluu Tynybekova
  Kyrgyzstan
Iryna Koliadenko
  Ukraine
Taybe Yusein
  Bulgaria
68 kg
details
Tamyra Mensah-Stock
  United States
Blessing Oborududu
  Nigeria
Alla Cherkasova
  Ukraine
Meerim Zhumanazarova
  Kyrgyzstan
76 kg
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Aline Rotter-Focken
  Germany
Adeline Gray
  United States
Yasemin Adar
  Turkey
Zhou Qian
  China

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan (JPN)*5117
2  ROC4048
3  United States (USA)3249
4  Cuba (CUB)2013
5  Iran (IRI)1124
  Ukraine (UKR)1124
7  Hungary (HUN)1102
8  Germany (GER)1023
9  China (CHN)0224
10  Belarus (BLR)0213
  Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)0213
12  Georgia (GEO)0202
13  Azerbaijan (AZE)0123
14  India (IND)0112
15  Armenia (ARM)0101
  Nigeria (NGR)0101
17  Turkey (TUR)0033
18  Bulgaria (BUL)0022
19  Egypt (EGY)0011
  Italy (ITA)0011
  Kazakhstan (KAZ)0011
  Mongolia (MGL)0011
  Poland (POL)0011
  San Marino (SMR)0011
  Serbia (SRB)0011
  Uzbekistan (UZB)0011
Totals (26 entries)18183672

Participating nations

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There are 61 participating nations:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Wrestling". Archived from the original on 30 December 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ^ "IOC, IPC, Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee and Tokyo Metropolitan Government Announce New Dates for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020". olympic.org. IOC. 30 March 2020. Archived from the original on 30 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Schedule - Wrestling Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Archived from the original on 25 October 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Wrestling Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 12 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
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