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Freestyle wrestling (or, catch-as-catch-can wrestling as it was called prior to the 1948 Olympics) and weight classes both made their first appearance at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Women's freestyle wrestling competition was first held at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2013, the IOC voted to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympic program.
The wrestling competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 5 to 11 August at Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars. [1] 288 wrestlers competed across 18 weight categories at these Games. The men wrestled against each other in both freestyle and Greco-Roman events, whereas the women only participated in the freestyle ...
76 kg. v. t. e. Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured two disciplines, freestyle and Greco-Roman, which were further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only participated in the freestyle events, with 18 gold medals awarded. Wrestling had been contested at every modern ...
List of Olympic venues in discontinued events. At the Summer Olympics, there have been eight Olympic sports that have been discontinued. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, long-discontinued sports in golf (last competed in 1904) and rugby (last competed in 1924) were reinstated as Olympic sports, though rugby was as rugby sevens ...
Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), or classic wrestling (Continental English) [2] is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been in every edition of the summer Olympics held since 1904. [3]
69 kg. Amit Elor (/ əˈmiːt iːˈlɔːr / ə-MEET ee-LOR; born January 1, 2004) [6] is an American freestyle wrestler who has claimed Olympic (2024) and world gold medals. She competes at 68 kilograms (150 pounds). She has won eight world championships, and has been a cadet, junior, and senior world champion. She won the senior world ...
The 2020 United States Olympic Team Trials for wrestling were held at the Dickies Arena of Fort Worth, Texas, on April 2–3, 2021. [1] This event determined the representative of the United States of America for the 2020 Summer Olympics at each Olympic weight class . [ 2 ]
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1904 St. Louis details: Otto Roehm United States Rudolph Tesing United States Albert Zirkel United States 1908 London details: George de Relwyskow Great Britain