PARIS, France - The next two U.S. wrestlers scheduled to compete at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 have received their draws for their preliminary competition on Wednesday.

Wednesday will feature the start of the third weight class in women’s freestyle, as well as the final two weight classes in Greco-Roman.

Competing on Tuesday morning in women’s freestyle is 2022 World champion Dom Parrish at 53 kg, as well as U.S. Greco-Roman wrestler Payton Jacobson at 87 kg. Both are competing in their first Olympic Games.

The 67 kg Greco-Roman weight class will also be contested, but the USA did not qualify to compete in this weight class.

Parrish, who is unseeded, was drawn into the bracket. Her first opponent is No. 3 seed Akari Fujinami of Japan, a two-time World champion (2021 and 2023). She has won a 2018 U17 World title and most recently won the 2023 Asian Games.

Should Parrish win, she will face the winner of the match between No. 6 seed Christianah Ogunsanya of Nigeria and Khulan Batkhuyag of Mongolia. Ogunsanya has won two straight Senior African titles. Batkhuyag was a 2022 World silver medalist.

If Parrish reaches the semifinals, the athletes in the quarter bracket who could emerge as semifinalists include

No. 2 seed Emma Malmgren of Sweden, No. 7 seed Quiyanu Pang of China, Betzbeth Arguello of Venezuela and Mia Aquino of Guam.

Malmgren was fifth in the last two Senior Worlds (2022, 2023), won a 2021 U20 World title and was second in the Senior Europeans this season. 2020 Olympic silver medalist Pang also won World bronze medals in 2018 and 2019, and was a 2016 Asian champion. Arguello was fifth in the 2016 Olympics and is a three-time Senior World Team member. Aquino has competed in three Senior World Championships and is a five-time Oceania champion.

Jacobson was also unseeded and drawn in. He will open against No. 7 seed Aleksander Komarov of Serbia. Komarov, who started his career with Russia, owns five age-group World titles (two at U17, two at U20 and one at U23). He was a 2024 European champion.

If Jacobson wins his first match, his quarterfinal opponents would be the winner of the match between No. 2 seed David Losonczi of Hungary and Rafig Huseynov of Azerbaijan. Losonczi was a 2023 World champion, a silver medalist at the 2021 Worlds and a bronze medalist in the 2022 Worlds. Huseynov won two Senior World gold medals (2021 and 2023) and a 2019 World silver medal.

Should Jacobson reach the semifinals, the athletes in the other quarter bracket who could emerge as semifinalists include No. 3 seed Semen Novikov of Bulgaria, No. 6 Bachir Sid Azara of Algeria, Turpal Bisultanov of Denmark and Lasha Gobadze of Georgia. Novikov is a 2023 World bronze medalist and past European champion. Azara, a 2020 Olympian, was a 2016 U20 World bronze medalist. Bisultanov was a 2022 World silver medalist and 2018 World bronze medalist. Gobadze was a 2019 World champion and won World bronze medals in 2015 and 2021.

Official brackets on UWW Arena

Both of these U.S. athletes will compete in the first session on Wednesday, which begins at 11:00 a.m. Paris time, after the completion of the repechage from Monday’s weight classes (77 kg GR, 97 kg GR, 50 kg WFS). The session will feature the Round of 16 and the quarterfinals in all three weights in Group 3.

Paris is six hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time zone, meaning this session begins at 5:00 a.m. ET. All of the wrestling action is broadcast live on Peacock.

OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024

At Paris, France

U.S. Greco-Roman first round draws for Wednesday

87 kg – Payton Jacobson, Elkhorn, Wis. (Sunkist Kids)

Vs. Aleksandr Komarov (Serbia), 2021 U23 World champion, 2024 European champion, 2017 and 2018 U20 World champion, 2015 and 2016 U17 World champion

U.S. women’s freestyle first round draws for Wednesday

53 kg – Dom Parrish, Corvallis, Ore. (Sunkist Kids/Beaver Dam RTC)

Vs. No. 3 seed Akari Fujinami (Japan), 2021 and 2023 World champion. 2018 U17 World champion, 2023 Asian Games champion, 2021 and 2022 Asian champion

Parrish, Jacobson receive draws for Wednesday’s wrestling at the Olympic Games in Paris

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