Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics
| Wrestling at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Carioca Arena 2 |
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| Dates | 14–21 August 2016 |
| No. of events | 18 |
| Competitors | 344 from 68 nations |
| Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics  | |||||
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| 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.
| 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 | ||||||||||
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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
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
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle
Participation
Participating nations
Algeria (3)
Argentina (1)- Armenia (8)
Australia (3)
Austria (1)- Azerbaijan (14)
Bahrain (1)- Belarus (7)
Brazil (5)- Bulgaria (11)
Cambodia (1)
Cameroon (3)- Canada (8)
- China (13)
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)
Honduras (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)
New Zealand (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)
Chinese Taipei (1)- Tunisia (4)
- Turkey (14)
- Ukraine (11)
- United States (14)
- Uzbekistan (8)
Venezuela (9)
Vietnam (2)
Competitors
Official referees
This is the official list of referees from 2016 Summer Olympics:[5]
- Antonio R. Silvestri (Chief of the Refereeing Commission)
- Guillermo Orestes Molina Gonzalez (Instructor)
- Edit Dozsa (Instructor)
- Osamu Saito (Instructor)
- Andrey Krikov (Instructor)
- Kamel Mohamed Bouaziz (Instructor)
- Halil Ibrahim Cicioglu (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)
See also
- Wrestling at the 2014 Asian Games
- Wrestling at the 2015 European Games
- Wrestling at the 2015 Pan American Games
References
- 1 2 "Rio 2016: Freestyle Wrestling". Rio 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Rio 2016: Greco-Roman Wrestling". Rio 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "FILA announces new weight classes". Associated Press. ESPN. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ↑ Longman, Jere (8 September 2013). "Wrestling, With Revamped Rules, Returns to Summer Games". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ↑ "List of the officials for the Olympic Games 2016" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
External links
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