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
No. of events18
Competitors347 from 66 nations

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.

QQualification & elimination FRepechage, Bronze medal & Gold medal
Event↓/Date →Sun 14Mon 15Tue 16Wed 17Thu 18Fri 19Sat 20Sun 21
Men's freestyle
Men's freestyle 57 kgQF
Men's freestyle 65 kgQF
Men's freestyle 74 kgQF
Men's freestyle 86 kgQF
Men's freestyle 97 kgQF
Men's freestyle 125 kgQF
Men's Greco-Roman
Men's Greco-Roman 59 kgQF
Men's Greco-Roman 66 kgQF
Men's Greco-Roman 75 kgQF
Men's Greco-Roman 85 kgQF
Men's Greco-Roman 98 kgQF
Men's Greco-Roman 130 kgQF
Women's freestyle
Women's freestyle 48 kgQF
Women's freestyle 53 kgQF
Women's freestyle 58 kgQF
Women's freestyle 63 kgQF
Women's freestyle 69 kgQF
Women's freestyle 75 kgQF

Qualification

Medalists

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
Mihran Harutyunyan
 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
Natalia Vorobieva
 Russia
Elmira Syzdykova
 Kazakhstan
Jenny Fransson
 Sweden
75 kg
Erica Wiebe
 Canada
Guzel Manyurova
 Kazakhstan
Zhang Fengliu
 China
Ekaterina Bukina
 Russia

Medal table

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 nations)18183672

Participation

Participating nations

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". Associated Press. ESPN. 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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