Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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.

Wrestling
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueCarioca Arena 2
Dates14–21 August 2016
No. of events18
Competitors347 from 66 nations
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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
Event↓/Date → Sun 14 Mon 15 Tue 16 Wed 17 Thu 18 Fri 19 Sat 20 Sun 21
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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Medalists

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Men's freestyle

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
57 kg
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Vladimer Khinchegashvili
  Georgia
Rei Higuchi
  Japan
Haji Aliyev
  Azerbaijan
Hassan Rahimi
  Iran
65 kg
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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
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Kyle Snyder
  United States
Khetag Gazyumov
  Azerbaijan
Albert Saritov
  Romania
Magomed Ibragimov
  Uzbekistan
125 kg
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Taha Akgül
  Turkey
Komeil Ghasemi
  Iran
Ibrahim Saidau
  Belarus
Geno Petriashvili
  Georgia

Men's Greco-Roman

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

Women's freestyle

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

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)4329
2  Japan (JPN)4307
3  Cuba (CUB)2103
4  United States (USA)2013
5  Turkey (TUR)1225
6  Iran (IRI)1135
7  Armenia (ARM)1102
8  Georgia (GEO)1023
9  Canada (CAN)1001
  Serbia (SRB)1001
11  Azerbaijan (AZE)0369
12  Belarus (BLR)0123
  Kazakhstan (KAZ)0123
14  Denmark (DEN)0101
  Ukraine (UKR)0101
16  Uzbekistan (UZB)0033
17  China (CHN)0022
  Sweden (SWE)0022
19  Bulgaria (BUL)0011
  Germany (GER)0011
  India (IND)0011
  Italy (ITA)0011
  Norway (NOR)0011
  Poland (POL)0011
  Romania (ROU)0011
  South Korea (KOR)0011
  Tunisia (TUN)0011
Totals (27 entries)18183672

Participation

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Participating nations

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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.
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