Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Carioca Arena 2
Dates	14–21 August 2016
No. of events	18
Competitors	344 from 68 nations

Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Men
Freestyle			Greco-Roman
	57 kg			59 kg
	65 kg			66 kg
	74 kg			75 kg
	86 kg			85 kg
	97 kg			98 kg
	125 kg			130 kg
Women
	48 kg			63 kg
	53 kg			69 kg
	58 kg			75 kg

Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 14 to 21 August at the Carioca Arena 2 in Barra da Tijuca. Wrestling had been split into two disciplines, freestyle^[1] and Greco-Roman,^[2] 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.

Around 344 wrestlers competed in 18 events at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In September 2013, a new change to the rules and guidelines of the sport had been instituted and overhauled by the International Olympic Committee and FILA (now known as the United World Wrestling). A single Olympic weight class was removed each from the men's freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling to add two more weights for the women.^[3][4] Other changes in wrestling at these Games also featured a single-round tournament within a six-minute limit, instead of two-round or tiebreaker.

Competition format

38 men or 18 women competed in each division, plus 6 others allocated either to the host country or by the tripartite commission into divisions yet to be determined prior to the Olympics. Wrestlers determined by lot competed in qualification rounds to reduce the number to 16, thereafter proceeding by simple knockout to determine the finalists who competed for gold and silver. The two groups of wrestlers respectively defeated in the 3 or 4 bouts of the two finalists competed in two serial elimination repechages, with the victor in each repechange being awarded bronze.^[1][2]

Competition schedule

There were two sessions of competition on each day of the 2016 Olympics Wrestling program. Except for the last day, the first session (qualification and elimination) was conducted from 10:00 to 13:00 BRT, and the second session (repechage, bronze medal and gold medal) was conducted from 16:00 to 19:00 BRT. Due to the closing ceremony on the last day (21 Aug) in the evening, the timing for the first and second session were 08:30–11:15 and 12:45–15:15 BRT respectively.

Qualification

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	4	3	2	9
2	Japan	4	3	0	7
3	Cuba	2	1	0	3
4	United States	2	0	1	3
5	Turkey	1	2	2	5
6	Iran	1	1	3	5
7	Armenia	1	1	0	2
8	Georgia	1	0	2	3
9	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Serbia	1	0	0	1
11	Azerbaijan	0	3	6	9
12	Belarus	0	1	2	3
	Kazakhstan	0	1	2	3
14	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
16	Uzbekistan	0	0	3	3
17	China	0	0	2	2
	Sweden	0	0	2	2
19	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Total (27 NOCs)		18	18	36	72

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg	Vladimer Khinchegashvili  Georgia	Rei Higuchi  Japan	Haji Aliyev  Azerbaijan
			Hassan Rahimi  Iran
65 kg	Soslan Ramonov  Russia	Toghrul Asgarov  Azerbaijan	Frank Chamizo  Italy
			Ikhtiyor Navruzov  Uzbekistan
74 kg	Hassan Yazdani  Iran	Aniuar Geduev  Russia	Jabrayil Hasanov  Azerbaijan
			Soner Demirtaş  Turkey
86 kg	Abdulrashid Sadulaev  Russia	Selim Yaşar  Turkey	Sharif Sharifov  Azerbaijan
			J'den Cox  United States
97 kg	Kyle Snyder  United States	Khetag Gazyumov  Azerbaijan	Albert Saritov  Romania
			Magomed Ibragimov  Uzbekistan
125 kg	Taha Akgül  Turkey	Komeil Ghasemi  Iran	Ibrahim Saidau  Belarus
			Geno Petriashvili  Georgia

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
59 kg	Ismael Borrero  Cuba	Shinobu Ota  Japan	Elmurat Tasmuradov  Uzbekistan
			Stig André Berge  Norway
66 kg	Davor Štefanek  Serbia	Migran Arutyunyan  Armenia	Shmagi Bolkvadze  Georgia
			Rasul Chunayev  Azerbaijan
75 kg	Roman Vlasov  Russia	Mark Madsen  Denmark	Kim Hyeon-woo  South Korea
			Saeid Abdevali  Iran
85 kg	Davit Chakvetadze  Russia	Zhan Beleniuk  Ukraine	Javid Hamzatau  Belarus
			Denis Kudla  Germany
98 kg	Artur Aleksanyan  Armenia	Yasmany Lugo  Cuba	Cenk İldem  Turkey
			Ghasem Rezaei  Iran
130 kg	Mijaín López  Cuba	Rıza Kayaalp  Turkey	Sabah Shariati  Azerbaijan
			Sergey Semenov  Russia

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Eri Tosaka  Japan	Mariya Stadnik  Azerbaijan	Sun Yanan  China
			Elitsa Yankova  Bulgaria
53 kg	Helen Maroulis  United States	Saori Yoshida  Japan	Nataliya Synyshyn  Azerbaijan
			Sofia Mattsson  Sweden
58 kg	Kaori Icho  Japan	Valeria Koblova  Russia	Marwa Amri  Tunisia
			Sakshi Malik  India
63 kg	Risako Kawai  Japan	Maryia Mamashuk  Belarus	Yekaterina Larionova  Kazakhstan
			Monika Michalik  Poland
69 kg	Sara Dosho  Japan	Nataliya Vorobyova  Russia	Elmira Syzdykova  Kazakhstan
			Jenny Fransson  Sweden
75 kg	Erica Wiebe  Canada	Guzel Manyurova  Kazakhstan	Zhang Fengliu  China
			Ekaterina Bukina  Russia

Participation

Participating nations

Competitors

Official referees

This is the official list of referees from 2016 Summer Olympics:^[5]

See also

• Wrestling at the 2014 Asian Games
• Wrestling at the 2015 European Games
• Wrestling at the 2015 Pan American Games

References

External links

• United World Wrestling
• NBC Olympics

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