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Listed are wrestlers who were World or Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling. Men's freestyle wrestling competition began at the Olympics in 1904. The World Championships for men's freestyle wrestling began in 1951. The World Championships takes place during non-Olympic years. At the World Championships team scoring is kept, while no ...
not included in the Olympic program: 1924 Paris details: Kustaa Pihlajamäki Finland: Kaarlo Mäkinen Finland: Bryan Hines United States: 1928 Amsterdam details: Kaarlo Mäkinen Finland: Edmond Spapen Belgium: James Trifunov Canada: 1932 Los Angeles details: Robert Pearce United States: Ödön Zombori Hungary: Aatos Jaskari Finland: 1936 Berlin ...
The men wrestled against each other in both freestyle and Greco-Roman events, whereas the women only participated in the freestyle wrestling, with 18 gold medals awarded. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games , except Paris 1900 .
This is the 25th appearance of men's freestyle middleweight category, debut in 1908 as 73kg, except 1912, 1920 as 69kg, from 1924 through 1960 as 79kg, from 1964 through 1968 as 87kg, from 1972 through 1996 as 82kg, 2000 as 85kg, from 2004 through 2012 as 84kg, from 2016 as 86kg as a current weight limit.
Freestyle wrestling (or, catch-as-catch-can wrestling as it was called prior to the 1948 Olympics) and weight classes both made their first appearance at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Women's freestyle wrestling competition was first held at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2013, the IOC voted to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympic program.
This is the 26th appearance of men's freestyle lightweight event, the event debut as 65.8kg as a demonstration, in 1908, as 66.6kg, (except 1912), 1920 as 61kg, 1924 as 66kg, in 1928 as 65kg, from 1932 through 1936 as 66kg, from 1948 through 1960 as 67kg, from 1964 through 1968 as 70kg, from 1972 through 1996 as 68 kg, 2000 as 69kg, from 2004 through 2012 as 66kg, from 2016, 65kg as a current ...
This is the 25th appearance of men's freestyle welterweight category, debut as a demonstration in 1904 as 71.7kg, except for 1908-1920, returned from 1924 through 1936 as 72kg, from 1948 through 1960 as 73kg, from 1964 through 1968 as 78kg, from 1972 through 1996 as 74kg, 2000 as 76kg, from 2004 as 74kg as a current weight limit.
Abdulrashid Sadulaev was a defending Olympic champion, but on 6 July 2024, the Russian Wrestling Federation (RWF) announced that all the Russian wrestlers has boycotted the Paris 2024 Olympic games, Kyle Snyder returned for the games, but lost to eventual champion Akhmed Tazhudinov, Snyder advanced for bronze medal match, but lost to Amir Ali ...