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
Venue	Carioca Arena 2
Dates	14–21 August 2016
No. of events	18
Competitors	347 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

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

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

Main article: Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

Participating nations

•  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

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

1. "The Olympic Games: Freestyle Wrestling". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
2. "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

• "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)
• Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• United World Wrestling
• NBC Olympics: Wrestling
• Results Book – Wrestling