Dake, Parris, Miracle receive draws for Friday’s wrestling at the Olympic Games in Paris

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

Friday will feature the fifth of the six women’s freestyle weight classes, as well as two more weight classes in men’s freestyle.

Competing on Friday morning in men’s freestyle is 2020 Olympic bronze medalist and four-time World champion Kyle Dake at 74 kg and 2023 World bronze medalist Mason Parris at 125 kg. Wrestling in women’s freestyle is two-time World silver medalist and 2020 Olympian Kayla Miracle.

Dake, who is seeded No. 1, will open against Anthony Montero Chirinos of Venezuela, a 2016 Pan American champion whose best finish at a World Championships was seventh in 2015.

If Dake wins his first match, her quarterfinal opponent would be one of three athletes, No. 8 seeded Bacar Ndum of Guinei Bissau or unseeded Frank Chamizo of Italy and Yones Emamichoghaei of Iran. Chamizo and Emamichoghaei wrestle in a pigtail, with the winner facing Ndum.

Ndum is a two-time African champion who qualified at the Africa/Oceania Olympic Qualifier. Chamizo is a two-time World champion and an Olympic medalist. Emamichoghaei has won two Senior World medals, two U23 World medals and was the 2023 Asian Games champion.

Should Dake make it to the semifinals, the athletes who are in the other quarter bracket that could emerge to face him include No. 4 Daichi Takatani of Japan, No. 5 Hetik Cabolov of Serbia, Iman Mahdavi of the Refugee Team and Geandry Garzon of Cuba.  Takatani won a 2023 World bronze medals and won a pair of age-group World medals. Cabolov was a 2014 Senior World champion and a 2017 World silver medalist for Russia, plus a 2013 World bronze medalist for Serbia. Mahdavi, who once competed for Iran, has been on the Senior World circuit for two years. Garzon has won four World medals, a silver and three bronzes, and is competing in this third Olympics.

Parris, who is seeded No. 3, will open against Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur of Mongolia, a two-time Senior World medalist who was also a 2019 U23 World bronze medalist.

If Parris wins his first match, his quarterfinal opponent would be the winner of No. 6 Giorgi Meshvildishvili of Azerbaijan and Diaaeldin Abdelmottaleb of Egypt. Meshvildishvili was a 2024 European bronze medalist and earned his Paris quota through the European Olympic Qualifier. Abdelmottaleb was in the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.

Should Parris make it to the semifinals, the athletes who are in the other quarter bracket that could emerge to face him are No. 2 seed Geno Petriashvili of Georgia, No. 7 seed Robert Baran of Poland, Yasup Batirmurzaev of Kazakhstan and Oleksandr Khotsianvivskyi of Ukraine.

Petriashvili won World titles in 2017, 2018 and 2019. He was beaten in the closing seconds of the 2020 Olympic finals by U.S. star Gable Steveson. Petriashvili also won a 2016 Olympic bronze and boasts 10 World or Olympic medals. Petriashvili beat Parris in the 2023 Senior Worlds. Baran competed in the 2016 Olympic Games, with his best Senior performance being seventh place at the 2023 Worlds. Batirmurzaev was a 2020 Olympian and 2020 Asian champion. Khotsianvivskyi competed in the 2012 and 2021 Olympics, and won a bronze medal at the

2019 World Championships.

Miracle, who is seeded No. 8, will open against Nesrin Bas of Turkey, a 2022 and 2023 U23 World champion who was also a 2024 European champion.

If Miracle wins her first match, her quarterfinal opponent would be the winner of No. 1 seed Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan, a 2020 Olympic silver medalist and three-time World champion and 2021 U23 World bronze medalist Esther Kolawole of Nigeria. Tynybekova won World gold in 2019, 2021 and 2023 and a bronze in 2017. Tynybekova beat Miracle in the world finals.

Should Miracle make it to the semifinals, the athletes who are in the other quarter bracket that could emerge to face her are No. 4 Iryna Koliadenko of Ukraine, No. 5 Bilyana Dudova of Bulgaria, Johanna Lindborg of Sweden and Orkhon Purevdorj of Mongolia.

Koliadenko was a 2020 Olympic bronze medalist, 2019 World silver medalist and a 2023 World bronze medalist. She won three European titles and three age-group World medals. Dudova was a 2021 World champion at 59 kg, a 2018 World silver medalist at 57 kg and was fifth in the 2013 Worlds. Lindborg was a 2018 U20 World bronze medalist. Purevdorj was a 2017 World champion and 2013 U20 World champion of Mongolia.

Official brackets on UWW Arena

https://arena.uww.org/sport-event/show/1ef379e8-e875-691a-8523-7b7ebc03fc97

All three of these U.S. athletes will compete in the first session on Friday, which begins at 11:00 a.m. Paris time, after the completion of the repechage from Thursday’s weight classes (57 kg MFS, 86 kg MFS, 57 kg WFS). The session will feature the Round of 16 and the quarterfinals in all three weights in Group 4.

Paris is six hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time zone, meaning this first 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. men’s freestyle first round draws for Friday

74 kg – Kyle Dake, State College, Pa. (Titan Mercury WC/Nittany Lion WC)

Vs. Anthony Montero Chirinos (Venezuela), 2016 Pan American champion, 7^th in 2015 World Championships.

125 kg – Mason Parris, Ann Arbor, Mich. (Titan Mercury WC/Cliff Keen WC)

Vs. Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur (Mongolia), 2022 World silver medalist, 2019 and 2021 World bronze medalist, 2020 Olympian

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

62 kg – Kayla Miracle, Tempe, Ariz. (Sunkist Kids)

Vs. Nesrin Bas (Turkey), 2024 European champion, 2022 and 2023 U23 World champion,