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The 2024 United States Olympic Team Trials for wrestling were held at the Bryce Jordan Center of State College, Pennsylvania, on April 19–20, 2024. [1] This event determined the representative of the United States of America for the 2024 Summer Olympics at each Olympic weight class .
[2] [3] Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except Paris 1900. Mijaín López became the first and only athlete in modern Olympics history to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event after winning in the Greco-Roman wrestling 130 kg, [4] Japan has topped the medal table for the fourth time.
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 .
Penn State wrestling will be the epicenter of the sport this weekend in America. The university that just won its 11th national wrestling title in 13 years is hosting the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team ...
The U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials are being held Friday and Saturday at Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center.
The United States Olympic team trials for the sport of wrestling are contested quadrennially to determine the country's representative at the Summer Olympic Games on each style (men's and women's freestyle and Greco-Roman) and weight class. [1] The event is conducted by the national governing body of the sport, currently USA Wrestling. [2]
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 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.