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| 347 from 66 nations

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Wrestling at the
2016 Summer Olympics

Qualification
| Freestyle| Greco-Roman| Women
| 57 kg| 59 kg| 48 kg
| 65 kg| 66 kg| 53 kg
| 74 kg| 75 kg| 58 kg
| 86 kg| 85 kg| 63 kg
| 97 kg| 98 kg| 69 kg
| 125 kg| 130 kg| 75 kg

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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

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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 repechage being awarded bronze.[1][2] Coaches were given plush dolls of Vinicius, the Olympic mascot, to throw into the ring when they wished to challenge a call.[5]

## Competition schedule

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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.

Q | Qualification & elimination  | F | Repechage, Bronze medal & Gold medal

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Event↓/Date → | Sun 14 | Mon 15 | Tue 16 | Wed 17 | Thu 18 | Fri 19 | Sat 20 | Sun 21

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Men's freestyle
Men's freestyle 57 kg |  |  |  |  |  | Q | F |  |
Men's freestyle 65 kg |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Q | F
Men's freestyle 74 kg |  |  |  |  |  | Q | F |  |
Men's freestyle 86 kg |  |  |  |  |  |  | Q | F |
Men's freestyle 97 kg |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Q | F
Men's freestyle 125 kg |  |  |  |  |  |  | Q | F |
Men's Greco-Roman
Men's Greco-Roman 59 kg | Q | F |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg |  |  | Q | F |  |  |  |  |
Men's Greco-Roman 75 kg | Q | F |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg |  | Q | F |  |  |  |  |  |
Men's Greco-Roman 98 kg |  |  | Q | F |  |  |  |  |
Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg |  | Q | F |  |  |  |  |  |
Women's freestyle
Women's freestyle 48 kg |  |  |  | Q | F |  |  |  |
Women's freestyle 53 kg |  |  |  |  | Q | F |  |  |
Women's freestyle 58 kg |  |  |  | Q | F |  |  |  |
Women's freestyle 63 kg |  |  |  |  | Q | F |  |  |
Women's freestyle 69 kg |  |  |  | Q | F |  |  |  |
Women's freestyle 75 kg |  |  |  |  | Q | F |  |  |

## Qualification

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Main article: Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

## Medalists

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### Men's freestyle

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

### Men's Greco-Roman

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

### Women's freestyle

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Russia (RUS)| 4| 3| 2| 9
2|  Japan (JPN)| 4| 3| 0| 7
3|  Cuba (CUB)| 2| 1| 0| 3
4|  United States (USA)| 2| 0| 1| 3
5|  Turkey (TUR)| 1| 2| 2| 5
6|  Iran (IRI)| 1| 1| 3| 5
7|  Armenia (ARM)| 1| 1| 0| 2
8|  Georgia (GEO)| 1| 0| 2| 3
9|  Canada (CAN)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Serbia (SRB)| 1| 0| 0| 1
11|  Azerbaijan (AZE)| 0| 3| 6| 9
12|  Belarus (BLR)| 0| 1| 2| 3
Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 0| 1| 2| 3
14|  Denmark (DEN)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Ukraine (UKR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
16|  Uzbekistan (UZB)| 0| 0| 3| 3
17|  China (CHN)| 0| 0| 2| 2
Sweden (SWE)| 0| 0| 2| 2
19|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Germany (GER)| 0| 0| 1| 1
India (IND)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Italy (ITA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Norway (NOR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Poland (POL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Romania (ROU)| 0| 0| 1| 1
South Korea (KOR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Tunisia (TUN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (27 entries)| 18| 18| 36| 72

## Participation

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### Participating nations

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* Algeria (3)
* Argentina (1)
* Armenia (8)
* Australia (3)
* Austria (1)
* Azerbaijan (14)
* Bahrain (1)
* Belarus (8)
* Brazil (5)
* Bulgaria (11)
* Cambodia (1)
* Cameroon (3)
* Canada (8)
* China (13)
* Chinese Taipei (1)
* Colombia (5)
* Croatia (1)
* Cuba (10)
* Czech Republic (1)
* Denmark (1)
* Ecuador (2)
* Egypt (10)
* Estonia (3)
* Finland (3)
* France (2)
* Georgia (11)
* Germany (7)
* Greece (1)
* Guinea-Bissau (2)
* Haiti (1)
* Hungary (8)
* India (8)
* Iran (12)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (2)
* Japan (10)
* Kazakhstan (12)
* Kyrgyzstan (7)
* Latvia (1)
* Lithuania (1)
* Mexico (1)
* Moldova (3)
* Mongolia (10)
* Morocco (3)
* Netherlands (1)
* Nigeria (7)
* North Korea (4)
* Norway (2)
* Palau (1)
* Peru (1)
* Poland (8)
* Puerto Rico (2)
* Romania (5)
* Russia (17)
* Senegal (2)
* Serbia (3)
* South Korea (5)
* Spain (1)
* Sweden (7)
* Tunisia (4)
* Turkey (14)
* Ukraine (11)
* United States (14)
* Uzbekistan (8)
* Venezuela (9)
* Vietnam (1)

### Official referees

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This is the official list of referees from 2016 Summer Olympics:[6]

* Antonio Silvestri (Chief of the Refereeing Commission)
* Guillermo Molina (Instructor)
* Edit Dozsa (Instructor)
* Osamu Saito (Instructor)
* Andrey Krikov (Instructor)
* Kamel Mohamed Bouaziz (Instructor)
* Halil İbrahim Cicioğlu (Instructor)
* Zach Errett (Instructor)
* Konstantin Mikhaylov (Instructor)
* Pertti Vehviläinen (Supervisor)
* Régine Legleut (Supervisor)
* Edisher Machaidze (Supervisor)
* Bakhytzhan Jaxykulov (Supervisor)
* Noreddine Mochaffaa (Supervisor)
* Sergey Novakovskiy (Supervisor)

## References

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1. ^ a b "The Olympic Games: Freestyle Wrestling". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
2. ^ a b "The Olympic Games: Greco-Roman Wrestling". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
3. ^ "FILA announces new weight classes". ESPN. Associated Press. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
4. ^ Longman, Jere (8 September 2013). "Wrestling, With Revamped Rules, Returns to Summer Games". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
5. ^ Meredith, Luke (14 August 2016). "Challenged: Olympic mascot Vinicius finds rough new role in wrestling". AP Rio 2016 Summer Games. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
6. ^ "List of the officials for the Olympic Games 2016" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Retrieved 29 December 2015.

## External links

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* "Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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* NBC Olympics: Wrestling
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