| Event: | Wrestling |
| Games: | 2024 Summer |
| Venue: | Grand Palais Éphémère |
| Dates: | 5–11 August 2024 |
| Competitors: | 291 |
| Nations: | 61 |
| Num Events: | 18 (12 men, 6 women) |
| Prev: | 2020 |
| Next: | 2028 |
The wrestling competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 5 to 11 August at Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars.[1] 288 wrestlers are expected to compete across 18 weight categories at these Games. The men will wrestle against each other in both freestyle and Greco-Roman events, whereas the women will only participate in the freestyle wrestling, with 18 gold medals awarded.[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]
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.[2] [3]
See main article: Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Similar to the previous Games, 288 wrestling quota places were available through three competition phases for Paris 2024. Each NOC could only qualify one wrestler per weight class. No host country spots will be allocated in wrestling.[3]
The qualification period began at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships, held from the 16 to 24 September in Belgrade, Serbia, where five quota places for each of the eighteen weight categories were awarded to four medalists (gold, silver, and two bronze) along with the champion of a bout between two losers from the bronze-medal matches.[5] [6] At the beginning of the 2024 season, four continental qualification tournaments (Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the joint Africa & Oceania) distributed a total of 144 spots to the top two finalists of each continent across eighteen weight categories. The remainder of the total quota were decided at the 2024 World 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.[5] [7]
During the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan, Italian wrestler Frank Chamizo stated that he was offered a $300,000 bribe to lose to Azerbaijani wrestler Turan Bayramov, which Chamizo refused. After a controversial referee decision resulted in Bayramov winning on criteria, Chamizo accused the referee of match fixing.[8] [9] Two weeks after the tournament, the refereeing body that officiated the match were suspended by the UWW after two independent panels ruled the bout was scored incorrectly. However, the result cannot be changed after the winner is officially declared, due to a policy.[10] Chamizo ended up qualified by ranking, due to several olympic spots being redistributed after the denial of athletes from Russia and Belarus.[11]
| Event↓/Date → | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | Sun 11 | ||||||||||||||
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| Men's Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| Women's freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| Men's freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| R16 | ¼ | ½ | R | F | |||||||||||||||||
| 57 kg | |||
| 65 kg | |||
| 74 kg | |||
| 86 kg | |||
| 97 kg | |||
| 125 kg | |||
| 60 kg | |||
| 67 kg | |||
| 77 kg | |||
| 87 kg | |||
| 97 kg | |||
| 130 kg | |||
| 50 kg | |||
| 53 kg | |||
| 57 kg | |||
| 62 kg | |||
| 68 kg | |||
| 76 kg | |||
There are 61 participating nations: