Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Dates	12–21 August 2008
No. of events	18
Competitors	344 from 59 nations

Wrestling competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, were held at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium from 12–21 August 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

Further information: Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	7	1	2	10
2	Japan (JPN)	2	3	1	6
3	Georgia (GEO)	2	1	1	4
4	China (CHN)*	1	2	1	4
5	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	2	3
	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
	United States (USA)	1	0	2	3
8	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	1	2
10	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	3	4
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	3	4
13	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	1	2	3
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	2	3
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	1	2	3
16	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
17	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	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
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		18	18	35	71

Medalists

Men's freestyle

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

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Nazyr Mankiev  Russia	Rovshan Bayramov  Azerbaijan	Roman Amoyan  Armenia
			Park Eun-chul  South Korea
60 kg^[e] details	Islambek Albiev  Russia	Nurbakyt Tengizbayev  Kazakhstan	Ruslan Tyumenbayev  Kyrgyzstan
			Sheng Jiang  China
66 kg details	Steeve Guénot  France	Kanatbek Begaliev  Kyrgyzstan	Armen Vardanyan  Ukraine
			Mikhail Siamionau  Belarus
74 kg details	Manuchar Kvirkvelia  Georgia	Chang Yongxiang  China	Yavor Yanakiev  Bulgaria
			Christophe Guénot  France
84 kg^[f] details	Andrea Minguzzi  Italy	Zoltán Fodor  Hungary	Nazmi Avluca  Turkey
			None awarded
96 kg^[g] details	Aslanbek Khushtov  Russia	Mirko Englich  Germany	Adam Wheeler  United States
			Marek Švec  Czech Republic
120 kg^[h] details	Mijaín López  Cuba	Mindaugas Mizgaitis  Lithuania	Yannick Szczepaniak  France
			Yury Patrikeyev  Armenia

Women's freestyle

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

• ^{Men's freestyle 60 kg} Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after failing an anti-doping retest.^[1] United World Wrestling has reallocated medals accordingly.^[2][3]
• ^{Men's freestyle 74 kg} Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after failing an anti-doping retest. United World Wrestling has reallocated medals accordingly.^[2][3]
• ^{Men's freestyle 96 kg} Taimuraz Tigiyev of Kazakhstan originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after failing an anti-doping retest. United World Wrestling has reallocated medals accordingly.^[2][3]
• ^{Men's freestyle 120 kg} Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after failing an anti-doping retest.^[1] United World Wrestling has reallocated medals accordingly.^[2][3]
• ^{Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg} Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after failing an anti-doping retest. United World Wrestling has reallocated medals accordingly.^[2][3]
• ^{Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg} Ara Abrahamian of Sweden originally won one of the two bronze medals, but was disqualified by the IOC after he walked off the podium and placed his medal in the center of the mat to protest a judge's decision which cost him his match against the eventual gold medallist, Andrea Minguzzi from Italy.^[4] The Court of Arbitration for Sport 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. While not challenging the outcome of the match or the technical judgments, the arbitration stated that the FILA was 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.^[5]
• ^{Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg} Asset Mambetov of Kazakhstan originally won one of the two bronze medals, but was disqualified in 2016 after failing an anti-doping retest. United World Wrestling has reallocated medals accordingly.^[2][3]
• ^{Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg} Khasan Baroev of Russia originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after failing an anti-doping retest. United World Wrestling has reallocated medals accordingly.^[2][3]

Participating nations

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

•  Albania (2)
•  Algeria (3)
•  Armenia (9)
•  Australia (4)
•  Azerbaijan (16)
•  Belarus (9)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Bulgaria (12)
•  Cameroon (1)
•  Canada (10)
•  China (16)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Cuba (12)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Egypt (7)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (9)
•  Georgia (10)
•  Germany (7)
•  Greece (3)
•  Guam (1)
•  Guinea-Bissau (1)
•  Hungary (9)
•  India (3)
•  Iran (12)
•  Italy (2)
•  Japan (10)
•  Kazakhstan (16)
•  Kyrgyzstan (5)
•  Lithuania (4)
•  Macedonia (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Mongolia (6)
•  Nigeria (2)
•  North Korea (3)
•  Norway (1)
•  Palau (2)
•  Peru (1)
•  Poland (9)
•  Romania (8)
•  Russia (18)
•  Senegal (1)
•  Serbia (2)
•  Slovakia (2)
•  South Africa (1)
•  South Korea (11)
•  Spain (3)
•  Sweden (5)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  Tajikistan (2)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (13)
•  Ukraine (16)
•  United States (17)
•  Uzbekistan (8)
•  Venezuela (3)

References

1. "IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012". 14 July 2021.
2. "IOC Sanctions Wrestlers for Anti-Doping Violations at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 | United World Wrestling". Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016. IOC Sanctions Wrestlers for Anti-Doping Violations at Beijing 2008 and London 2012
3. https://unitedworldwrestling.org/DataBase United World Wrestling DataBase
4. Douglas Hamilton (14 August 2008), Angry Swede throws down medal and quits, Thomson Reuters, archived from the original on 28 August 2008
5. "IOC strips Abrahamian's bronze medal for tantrum". ESPN. 16 August 2008. Retrieved 16 August 2008.

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

External links

• Wrestling – Official Results Book