Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Wrestling at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Grand Palais Éphémère
Dates	5–11 August 2024
No. of events	18 (12 men, 6 women)
Competitors	291 from 61 nations
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Wrestling is a very old sport where two people try to control each other using holds and moves. It's a big part of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. These exciting competitions took place from August 5 to 11, 2024. The venue for these matches was the Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars.

About 288 wrestlers from all over the world competed. They wrestled in 18 different weight groups. Men competed in two styles: freestyle and Greco-Roman. Women only competed in freestyle wrestling. In total, 18 gold medals were given out. Wrestling has been in almost every modern Summer Olympic Games. The only time it wasn't included was in Paris in 1900.

A famous wrestler named Mijaín López made history at these Games. He won his fifth gold medal in a row in the same event. This was in the Greco-Roman 130 kg category. He is the first athlete to do this in modern Olympic history!

How Wrestling Competitions Work

In each wrestling weight group, 16 wrestlers compete. The competition is a single-elimination tournament. This means if you lose a match, you are usually out.

• The two wrestlers who win all their matches go on to compete for the gold and silver medals.
• Wrestlers who lose to one of the two finalists get another chance. This is called the repechage round.
• The repechage helps decide who wins the two bronze medals. The losers from the semifinals wrestle against other repechage opponents.
• Finally, two bronze medal matches are held.

How Wrestlers Qualify for the Olympics

To compete in the Paris 2024 Olympics, wrestlers had to earn their spots. There were 288 spots available for wrestlers. Each country could only send one wrestler per weight group. The host country, France, did not get any automatic spots in wrestling.

The qualification process happened in a few stages:

• 2023 World Wrestling Championships: This was the first chance to qualify. It happened in September 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. The top four medalists (gold, silver, and two bronze) in each of the 18 weight groups earned a spot. An extra spot was given to the winner of a match between two bronze-medal match losers.
• Continental Qualification Tournaments: In early 2024, four big tournaments were held. These were for Asia, Europe, the Americas, and a combined Africa & Oceania event. In each of these, the top two wrestlers in each weight group earned a spot. This added 144 more spots.
• 2024 World Qualification Tournament: The last spots were given out at this tournament. The top two wrestlers in each weight group qualified. Another spot was given to the winner of a special match between two bronze medalists.

Wrestling Competition Schedule

The wrestling events took place over several days. Here's a look at when each type of wrestling and weight category had its matches:

Medal Winners

Here are the countries and individual wrestlers who won medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics wrestling events.

Medal Table by Country

This table shows how many gold, silver, and bronze medals each country won in wrestling.

  *   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 Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg details	Rei Higuchi  Japan	Spencer Lee  United States	Aman Sehrawat  India
			Gulomjon Abdullaev  Uzbekistan
65 kg details	Kotaro Kiyooka  Japan	Rahman Amouzad  Iran	Sebastian Rivera  Puerto Rico
			Islam Dudaev  Albania
74 kg details	Razambek Zhamalov  Uzbekistan	Daichi Takatani  Japan	Kyle Dake  United States
			Chermen Valiev  Albania
86 kg details	Magomed Ramazanov  Bulgaria	Hassan Yazdani  Iran	Aaron Brooks  United States
			Dauren Kurugliev  Greece
97 kg details	Akhmed Tazhudinov  Bahrain	Givi Matcharashvili  Georgia	Magomedkhan Magomedov  Azerbaijan
			Amir Ali Azarpira  Iran
125 kg details	Geno Petriashvili  Georgia	Amir Hossein Zare  Iran	Taha Akgül  Turkey
			Giorgi Meshvildishvili  Azerbaijan

Men's Greco-Roman Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg details	Kenichiro Fumita  Japan	Cao Liguo  China	Zholaman Sharshenbekov  Kyrgyzstan
			Ri Se-ung  North Korea
67 kg details	Saeid Esmaeili  Iran	Parviz Nasibov  Ukraine	Hasrat Jafarov  Azerbaijan
			Luis Orta  Cuba
77 kg details	Nao Kusaka  Japan	Demeu Zhadrayev  Kazakhstan	Malkhas Amoyan  Armenia
			Akzhol Makhmudov  Kyrgyzstan
87 kg details	Semen Novikov  Bulgaria	Alireza Mohmadi  Iran	Zhan Beleniuk  Ukraine
			Turpal Bisultanov  Denmark
97 kg details	Mohammad Hadi Saravi  Iran	Artur Aleksanyan  Armenia	Gabriel Rosillo  Cuba
			Uzur Dzhuzupbekov  Kyrgyzstan
130 kg details	Mijaín López  Cuba	Yasmani Acosta  Chile	Amin Mirzazadeh  Iran
			Meng Lingzhe  China

Women's Freestyle Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg details	Sarah Hildebrandt  United States	Yusneylys Guzmán  Cuba	Yui Susaki  Japan
			Feng Ziqi  China
53 kg details	Akari Fujinami  Japan	Lucía Yépez  Ecuador	Choe Hyo-gyong  North Korea
			Pang Qianyu  China
57 kg details	Tsugumi Sakurai  Japan	Anastasia Nichita  Moldova	Helen Maroulis  United States
			Hong Kexin  China
62 kg details	Sakura Motoki  Japan	Iryna Koliadenko  Ukraine	Aisuluu Tynybekova  Kyrgyzstan
			Grace Bullen  Norway
68 kg details	Amit Elor  United States	Meerim Zhumanazarova  Kyrgyzstan	Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu  Turkey
			Nonoka Ozaki  Japan
76 kg details	Yuka Kagami  Japan	Kennedy Blades  United States	Milaimys Marín  Cuba
			Tatiana Rentería  Colombia

Countries Participating in Wrestling

Wrestlers from 61 different countries took part in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Here is a list of all the nations that participated:

See also

In Spanish: Lucha en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024 para niños