Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Dates	12–21 August
Competitors	344

Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Freestyle			Greco-Roman
	55 kg			55 kg
	60 kg			60 kg
	66 kg			66 kg
	74 kg			74 kg
	84 kg			84 kg
	96 kg			96 kg
	120 kg			120 kg
Women
	48 kg			63 kg
	55 kg			72 kg

Wrestling competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, were held at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium from August 12–21, 2008. It was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only took part in the freestyle events with 18 gold medals being awarded. This was the second Olympics with women's wrestling as an event.

Qualification

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Henry Cejudo  United States	Tomohiro Matsunaga  Japan	Radoslav Velikov  Bulgaria
			Besik Kudukhov  Russia
60 kg	Mavlet Batirov  Russia	Vasyl Fedoryshyn  Ukraine	Kenichi Yumoto  Japan
			Morad Mohammadi  Iran
66 kg	Ramazan Şahin  Turkey	Andriy Stadnik  Ukraine	Otar Tushishvili  Georgia (country)
			Sushil Kumar  India
74 kg	Buvaisar Saitiev  Russia	Murad Gaidarov  Belarus [a]	Gheorghiță Ștefan  Romania
			Kiril Terziev  Bulgaria
84 kg	Revaz Mindorashvili  Georgia (country)	Yusup Abdusalomov  Tajikistan	Taras Danko  Ukraine
			Georgy Ketoyev  Russia
96 kg	Shirvani Muradov  Russia	Giorgi Gogshelidze  Georgia (country) [b]	Michel Batista  Cuba
			Khetag Gazyumov  Azerbaijan
120 kg	Artur Taymazov  Uzbekistan	Bakhtiyar Akhmedov  Russia	David Musuľbes  Slovakia
			Marid Mutalimov  Kazakhstan

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Nazyr Mankiev  Russia	Rovshan Bayramov  Azerbaijan	Roman Amoyan  Armenia
			Park Eun-chul  South Korea
60 kg	Islambek Albiev  Russia	Nurbakyt Tengizbayev  Kazakhstan [c]	Ruslan Tyumenbayev  Kyrgyzstan
			Sheng Jiang  China
66 kg	Steeve Guénot  France	Kanatbek Begaliev  Kyrgyzstan	Armen Vardanyan  Ukraine
			Mikhail Siamionau  Belarus
74 kg	Manuchar Kvirkvelia  Georgia (country)	Chang Yongxiang  China	Yavor Yanakiev  Bulgaria
			Christophe Guénot  France
84 kg	Andrea Minguzzi  Italy	Zoltán Fodor  Hungary	Nazmi Avluca  Turkey
			not awarded [d]
96 kg	Aslanbek Khushtov  Russia	Mirko Englich  Germany	Adam Wheeler  United States
			Marek Švec  Czech Republic [e]
120 kg	Mijaín López  Cuba	Mindaugas Mizgaitis  Lithuania [f]	Yannick Szczepaniak  France
			Yury Patrikeyev  Armenia

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Carol Huynh  Canada	Chiharu Icho  Japan	Mariya Stadnik  Azerbaijan
			Iryna Merleni  Ukraine
55 kg	Saori Yoshida  Japan	Xu Li  China	Tonya Verbeek  Canada
			Jackeline Rentería  Colombia
63 kg	Kaori Icho  Japan	Alena Kartashova  Russia	Yelena Shalygina  Kazakhstan
			Randi Miller  United States
72 kg	Wang Jiao  China	Stanka Zlateva  Bulgaria	Kyoko Hamaguchi  Japan
			Agnieszka Wieszczek  Poland

• ^{Men's freestyle 74 kg} Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan originally won silver medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.^[1][2]
• ^{Men's freestyle 96 kg} Taimuraz Tigiyev of Kazakhstan originally won silver medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.^[1][2]
• ^{Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg} Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan originally won silver medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.^[1][2]
• ^{Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg} Ara Abrahamian of Sweden originally won one of the two bronze medals in the 84 kg weight class but was disqualified by the IOC after he stepped off the podium and dropped his medal in the center of the mat to protest the judges decision which cost him the match against the eventual gold medal recipient, Andrea Minguzzi from Italy.^[3] The Court of Arbitration for Sport also held a hearing based on the request which was issued by Abrahamian and the Swedish Olympic Committee against the FILA. Preceding the hearing, CAS declared in a statement that Abrahamian and the SOC "do not seek from the CAS any particular relief" regarding the ranking of the medals or a review of the IOC decision to exclude Abrahamian from the Games. Following the CAS issued an arbitration strongly criticizing FILA. Not challenging the outcome of the match and the technical judgments, the arbitration stated that the FILA is required to provide an appeal jury capable to deal promptly with the claims of the athletes. The chairman of the SOC, Stefan Lindeberg, commented that the decision once and for all shows that FILA did not act correctly and that they did not follow their own rules of fair play.^[4]
• ^{Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg} Asset Mambetov of Kazakhstan originally won bronze medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.^[1][2]
• ^{Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg} Khasan Baroyev of Russia originally won silver medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.^[1][2]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	6	2	2	10
2	Japan (JPN)	2	2	2	6
3	Georgia (country) (GEO)	2	1	1	4
4	China (CHN)	1	2	1	4
5	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
	United States (USA)	1	0	2	3
7	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	1	2
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
10	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
12	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	3	5
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	3	4
14	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	1	2	3
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	2	3
16	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	1	1	2
18	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	0	1	0	1
22	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	2	2
23	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Total		18	18	35	71

Participating nations

A total of 344 wrestlers from 59 nations competed at the Beijing Games:

References

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• U.S. Olympic Team & Weight Class Previews
• International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles
• Fila Wrestling Beijing 2008
• Olympic Committee

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