The guide is loaded with important information on how to follow and cover the wrestling competition in Paris. Featured areas of the guide include event schedule, broadcast information, top athletes and storylines to follow, biographies of each U.S. Olympian, weight class previews with entry lists and seeds, coaching and support staff information, plus a complete section of USA Wrestling’s Olympic history.
Want an inside look at what it's like to be on the Olympic Team? U.S. National Women's Freestyle Head Coach Terry Steiner posts daily updates about Team USA's trip to the Olympic Games in Paris, France.
Get a different perspective on the Olympic experience as Team USA Press Officer Gary Abbott provides daily updates as he covers his 10th Olympic Games for USA Wrestling.
(WASHINGTON D.C.) Wrestle Like A Girl (WLAG) names the USA Women’s Wrestling Olympic team recipients of the 2024 Courage Award for their performances in Paris. The Afsoon Courage Award honors Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston and celebrates athletes who must...
You would think that selecting champions would be an easy task for journalists who cover the sport. The 2024 international journalist champion pick contest only asked for a prediction of who would stand on the top of the podium at the Olympic Games Par...
Japan won the medal table in the sport of wrestling at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, capturing 11 medals, including an impressive eight individual champions. Japan won six women’s freestyle medals, three men’s freestyle medals and two Greco-Roman medal...
PARIS, France - Capping off an inspiring run at 76 kg in women’s freestyle, 20-year-old Kennedy Blades won a silver medal at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on Sunday at the Champ-de-Mars Arena. It was the last match of the entire wrestling competition of...
Team USA finished with seven medals in wrestling at Olympic Games Paris 2024, with four in women’s freestyle and three in men’s freestyle.This included gold medals by Amit Elor at 68 kg and Sarah Hildebrandt at 53 kg in women’s freestyle. Silver medals...
PARIS, France – Zain Retherford, the U.S. Olympian at 65 kg in men’s freestyle wrestling, has withdrawn from the competition in Paris as a medical precaution after sustaining a head injury during Saturday’s tournament. Retherford competed in the preli...
PARIS, France - Kyle Dake won his second career Olympic medal when he captured a bronze medal in men’s freestyle at 74 kg at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.Dake made an amazing comeback in the final minute of the match to defeat World champion and three-...
Men's Freestyle 74 kg medal matchesGold - Razambek Jamalov (Uzbekistan) pin Daichi Takatani (Japan), 2:12Bronze – Kyle Dake (United States) dec. Hetik Cabalov (Serbia), 10-4Bronze - Cherman Valiev (Albania) dec. Viktor Rassadin (Tajikistan), 6-2--74 kg...
Topping the list of skilled wrestlers at heavyweight as the No. 1 seed is Amin Mirzazadeh of Iran, the current Senior World champion. Mirzazadeh is a two-time World champion and three-time World finalist. He draws experience from the 2020 Tokyo Games, ...
The No. 1 seed is 2023 World silver medalist Aiperi Medet Kyzy of Kyrgyzstan. Medet Kyzy broke through with her fifth at the 2020 Olympics and added a World bronze in 2021. She added a 2021 U23 World title. She has won four straight events since the 20...
Amir Zare of Iran gets the No. 1 seed at this weight class. Zare has been the top heavyweight in recent years, with 2021 and 2023 World titles, plus bronze medals at the 2020 Olympics and the 2022 Worlds. He won gold medals in the last five internation...
Leading the group as the No. 1 seed at 97 kg is Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia, the 2023 Senior World silver medalist. Aleksanyan’s remarkable track record establishes him as a frontrunner in Paris. He will be aiming to add a second Olympic gold to his im...
The No. 1 seed is 2023 World champion Buse Tosun of Turkey, who also won 2018 and 2021 World bronze medals, and a 2018 U23 World title. She wrestled in the 2016 Olympics. Her half-bracket will include No. 4 Irina Ringaci, No. 5 Tetiana Sova Rizhko of U...
Magomedkham Magomedov of Azerbaijan gets the No. 1 seed at this weight class. Magomedov won a 2023 World silver medal and a 2022 World bronze medal. He was a Junior World champion for Russia in 2018 and switched nations in 2022.His half-bracket will in...
Leading the field as the No. 1 seed is Ali Cengiz of Turkey, the 2023 World champion. Cengiz’s dominance and technical skill have made him a top competitor, and he will be looking to add an Olympic gold to his two World medals in Paris.Zhan Beleniuk of...
The No. 1 seed is 2020 Olympic silver medalist and three-time World champion Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan. The most consistent star in this weight, Tynybekova won World gold in 2019, 2021 and 2023 and a bronze in 2017. She has won gold in eight of ...
