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[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.
Five quota places were awarded at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships, which took place from the 16th to 24th of September in Belgrade, Serbia. The finalists of each category in the four continental qualification tournaments ( Asia , Europe , the Americas , and the joint Africa & Oceania ) were awarded quota places.
The remainder of the total quota was decided at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament, offering three quota places per weight category to the two highest-ranked wrestlers and the champion of a wrestle-off between two bronze medalists. [1] [4] Two invitational places were granted to members of the Olympic Refugee Team. [5]
Wrestling, one of the oldest sports in the Olympic Games is back again for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Individuals will compete over seven days, from Aug. 5-11 at Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris, with ...
2024 Olympic schedule for Aug. 7: A'ja Wilson, USA in knockout play, Nelly Korda returns and high stakes on track. ... Wrestling. MGR 77kg Repechage: 5 a.m. ET on Peacock and NBCOlympics.com.
The 2024 Olympic Wrestling Pan American Qualification Tournament was the first regional qualifying tournament for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The event was held from 28 February to 1 March 2024, at Expo Mundo Imperial in Acapulco , Mexico .
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 .
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.