Elor, Coon receive draws for opening day of Olympic Games wrestling competition

PARIS – The first batch of draws have been announced on the eve of wrestling taking over Champ de Mars Arena at the 2024 Olympic Games. The brackets are set for Americans Amit Elor and Adam Coon, who both were drawn in at random as unseeded athletes.

Elor, the two-time reigning Senior World champion at 72 kg, starts her Olympic journey against the current 68 kg World champion and No. 1 seed Buse Cavusoglu Tosun of Turkey. The two met in the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Championships, with Elor pinning Cavusoglu Tosun in 44 seconds.

A round one win by Elor would push her into the quarterfinals against either three-time age group World medalist Wiktoria Choluj of Poland or two-time World medalist and three-time Olympian Feng Zhou of China, who earned the No. 8 seed. Elor has defeated Choluj at the past two U23 World Championships. She has not tabbed results against Zhou.

Also in Elor’s half-bracket are 2021 World champion and No. 4 seed Irina Ringaci of Moldova, 2022 European champion and No. 5 seed Tetiana Sova Rizhko of Ukraine, 2024 Asian Olympic Qualifier finalist Sol Gum Pak of North Korea and 2023 U23 World silver medalist Nisha of India. She would face one of these four athletes in the semifinal round.

Elor is the youngest Senior World champion in U.S. history at age 18. A gold medal in Paris would make her the youngest Olympic wrestling champion in U.S. history at age 20. In addition to her two Senior World titles, Elor has collected six gold medals at age-group World Championships.

It’s a similar story over on the Greco-Roman side with Coon opening against reigning World champion and No. 1 seed Amin Mirzazadeh of Iran. The two have never wrestled.

The winner between four-time Olympic champion Mijain Lopez Nunez of Cuba, who was unseeded, and Asian Olympic Qualifier finalist Seungchan Lee of Korea awaits the victor of the Coon-Mirzazadeh bout. Lopez Nunez is on the hunt for a record-breaking fifth-straight Olympic gold medal. No Summer Olympian has ever won a gold medal in the same individual event at five consecutive Olympics.

The opposite side of Coon’s half-bracket features four-time Olympian and No. 4 seed Alin Alexuc Ciurariu of Romania, two-time World champion and Olympic silver medalist Heiki Nabi of Estonia, who is the No. 5 seed, plus unseeded athletes Sabah Shariati of Azerbaijan and Alimkhan Syzdykov of Kazakhstan. Shariati was an Olympic bronze medalist at the 2016 Olympics. Syzdykov is a four-time Asian medalist.

The Greco-Roman 60 kg bracket was also announced on Sunday afternoon. The U.S. did not qualify an athlete to compete in this weight category.

The action begins at 3 p.m. local time on Monday with the preliminary matches and quarterfinals. Session two clocks at 9 p.m. start with the semifinals. Paris is located six hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time.

Complete brackets and match-by-match results for each weight class can be found on UWW Arena. Fans in the U.S. can stream every match live on Peacock. A complete broadcast schedule for the Olympic wrestling competition is available here.

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