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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The wrestling competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 5 to 11 August at Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars. 288 wrestlers are expected to compete across 18 weight categories at these Games. The men will wrestle against each other in both freestyle and Greco-Roman events, whereas the women will only participate in the freestyle wrestling, with 18 gold medals awarded. Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except Paris 1900.

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 at Greco-Roman wrestling 130 kg.

Competition format

Sixteen 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.

Qualification

Similar 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.

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. 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.

Competition schedule

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   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

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

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

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

Participating nations

There are 61 participating nations:

See also

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