The
wrestling competitions at the
2024 Summer Olympics
The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ...
in
Paris are scheduled to run from 5 to 11 August at
Grand Palais Éphémère in
Champ de Mars.
288 wrestlers are expected to compete across eighteen different weight categories at these Games. The men will wrestle against each other in both
freestyle
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and
Greco-Roman
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events, whereas the women will only participate in the freestyle wrestling, with eighteen
gold medal
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s awarded.
has been contested at every modern
Summer Olympic Games
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, except
Paris 1900
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.
Competition format
Sixteen wrestlers compete in each division. The competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a
repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists will wrestle for the gold and silver medals. Each wrestler losing to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage that culminates in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers who each face the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket.
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Qualification
Similar to the previous Games, 288 wrestling quota places are available through three competition phases for Paris 2024. Each NOC could only send one wrestler per weight class. No host country spots will be allocated in wrestling.[
The qualification period commences at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships, scheduled for late August or early September in ]Belgrade
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, Serbia, where five quota places for each of the eighteen weight categories will be awarded to the four medalists (gold, silver, and two bronze) and the champion of a bout between two losers from the bronze-medal matches.
Competition schedule
Medal summary
Medal table
Medalists
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle
See also
*Wrestling at the 2023 Pan American Games
Wrestling competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile are scheduled to be held between November 1 and 4, 2023 at the Olympic Training Center in Ñuñoa.
The competition is split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman ...
References
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Predicted and scheduled events
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