The wrestling competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 5 to 11 August at Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars.[1] 288 wrestlers competed across 18 weight categories at these Games. The men wrestled against each other in both freestyle and Greco-Roman events, whereas the women only participated in the freestyle wrestling, with 18 gold medals awarded.[2][3] Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except Paris 1900.
| Wrestling at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |
|---|---|
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| Venue | Grand Palais Éphémère |
| Dates | 5–11 August 2024 |
| No. of events | 18 (12 men, 6 women) |
| Competitors | 290 from 60 nations |
Mijaín López became the first and only athlete in modern Olympics history to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event after winning in the Greco-Roman wrestling 130 kg.[4]
Competition format
editSixteen 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 will wrestle for the gold and silver medals. Each wrestler losing to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage that culminates in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers who each face the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket.[2][3]
Qualification
editSimilar to the previous Games, 288 wrestling quota places were available through three competition phases for Paris 2024. Each NOC could only qualify one wrestler per weight class. No host country spots will be allocated in wrestling.[3]
The qualification period began at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships, held from the 16 to 24 September in Belgrade, Serbia, where five quota places for each of the eighteen weight categories were awarded to four medalists (gold, silver, and two bronze) along with the champion of a bout between two losers from the bronze-medal matches.[5][6] At the beginning of the 2024 season, four continental qualification tournaments (Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the joint Africa & Oceania) distributed a total of 144 spots to the top two finalists of each continent across eighteen weight categories. The remainder of the total quota were decided at the 2024 World Qualification Tournament, offering three quota places per weight category to the two highest-ranked wrestlers and the champion of a wrestle-off between two bronze medalists.[5][7]
Azerbaijani qualification match fixing scandal
editDuring the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan, Italian wrestler Frank Chamizo stated that he was offered a $300,000 bribe to lose to Azerbaijani wrestler Turan Bayramov, which Chamizo refused. After a controversial referee decision resulted in Bayramov winning on criteria, Chamizo accused the referee of match fixing.[8][9] Two weeks after the tournament, the refereeing body that officiated the match were suspended by the UWW after two independent panels ruled the bout was scored incorrectly. However, the result cannot be changed after the winner is officially declared, due to a policy.[10] Chamizo ended up qualified by ranking, due to several olympic spots being redistributed after the denial of athletes from Russia and Belarus.[11]
Competition schedule
edit| R16 | Round of 16 | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | R | Repechage | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | Sun 11 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | ||||||||
| Men's Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's Greco-Roman 67 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's Greco-Roman 97 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's freestyle 50 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's freestyle 53 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's freestyle 57 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's freestyle 62 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's freestyle 68 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's freestyle 76 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle 57 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle 65 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle 74 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle 86 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle 97 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle 125 kg | R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | ||||||||||||||||
Medal summary
editMedal table
edit* Host nation (France)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Japan | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| 2 |  Iran | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 |  United States | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 |  Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Cuba | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 |  Georgia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 |  Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 |  Bahrain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 |  Ukraine | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 |  China | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
 Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| 12 |  Armenia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 |  Chile | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Ecuador | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Kazakhstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Moldova | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 17 |  Azerbaijan | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 18 |  Albania | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 North Korea | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
 Turkey | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 21 |  Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Puerto Rico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (26 entries) | 18 | 18 | 36 | 72 | |
Men's freestyle
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Men's Greco-Roman
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Women's freestyle
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Participating nations
editThere are 60 participating nations:
Albania (3)
Algeria (8)
Armenia (5)
Australia (2)
Azerbaijan (12)
Bahrain (1)
Brazil (1)
Bulgaria (6)
Canada (6)
Chile (2)
China (13)
Colombia (4)
Cuba (10)
Denmark (1)
Dominican Republic (1)
Ecuador (4)
Egypt (11)
Estonia (1)
Finland (2)
France (3)
Georgia (7)
Germany (7)
Greece (2)
Guam (2)
Guinea-Bissau (2)
Honduras (1)
Hungary (5)
India (6)
Individual Neutral Athletes (2)
Iran (12)
Italy (2)
Japan (13)
Kazakhstan (8)
Kyrgyzstan (10)
Lithuania (3)
Mexico (2)
Moldova (8)
Mongolia (9)
Morocco (1)
New Zealand (1)
Nigeria (6)
North Korea (5)
North Macedonia (1)
Norway (1)
Poland (5)
Puerto Rico (4)
Refugee Olympic Team (2)
Romania (5)
Samoa (1)
San Marino (1)
Serbia (5)
Slovakia (1)
South Africa (1)
South Korea (2)
Sweden (2)
Tajikistan (1)
Tunisia (4)
Turkey (11)
Ukraine (9)
United States (16)
Uzbekistan (7)
Venezuela (4)
References
edit- ^ "Paris 2024 – Wrestling". Paris 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ a b Nishimura, Chiaki (28 June 2022). "Paris 2024: Weight categories for the Olympic wrestling competition". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ a b c "How to qualify for wrestling at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained". International Olympic Committee. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ "Cuba's Mijaín López wins fifth gold, record in individual event". ESPN. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ a b Rowbottom, Mike (30 September 2022). "United World Wrestling tweaks Paris 2024 qualification to give global qualifier more berths". Inside the Games. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ "2023 Wrestling World Championships: All final results and medals – Full list". Olympics.com. 24 September 2023. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Wrestling" (PDF). United World Wrestling. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ^ Chiusano, Mattia (8 April 2024). "Chamizo attacca gli arbitri della lotta: "Venduti e corrotti". Scandalo a Baku, ora l'azzurro rischia le Olimpiadi" [Chamizo attacks the referees of the fight: "Sold out and corrupt". Scandal in Baku, now the Italian risks the Olympics]. la Repubblica (in Italian). Archived from the original on 8 April 2024. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Italian wrestler Chamizo claims he rejected $300,000 bribe to throw a match he controversially lost". Associated Press. 11 April 2024. Archived from the original on 11 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
- ^ "UWW decision regarding Chamizo-Bayramov bout". United World Wrestling. 23 April 2024. Archived from the original on 23 April 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ Kozak, Jon (27 June 2024). "UWW Announces 16 Reallocated Quotas For The 2024 Paris Olympics". FloWrestling. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- ^ "Wrestling at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games". Paris 2024. NBC Olympics. 17 August 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ OLYMPIC GAMES (GR/FS/WW) uww.org
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