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The wrestling competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 5 to 11 August at Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars. [1] 288 wrestlers competed across 18 weight categories at these Games.
Forcing an opponent's shoulders to the mat results in an instant victory by fall. [ 3 ] During the course of a match, if a wrestler builds a 10-point advantage over the opponent, the bout is stopped and the leader is declared as the winner by technical superiority .
PARIS — Amit Elor, a 20-year-old wrestling wunderkind from California, capped a five-year run of invincibility with history here at the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday.
Forcing an opponent's shoulders to the mat results in an instant victory by fall. [ 3 ] During the course of a match, if a wrestler builds a 10-point advantage over the opponent, the bout is stopped and the leader is declared as the winner by technical superiority .
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.
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.
Forcing an opponent's shoulders to the mat results in an instant victory by fall. [ 3 ] During the course of a match, if a wrestler builds a 10-point advantage over the opponent, the bout is stopped and the leader is declared as the winner by technical superiority .
Women's wrestling made it's Olympic debut in 2004, but the U.S. didn't earn its first gold until Helen Maroulis won at 53 kg in 2016. Tamyra Mensah-Stock followed by winning 68 kg at Tokyo 2020.