Wrestling 2008

Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held from 12 to 21 August 2008 at China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

The Olympic wrestling program for 2008 changed, as all wrestlers competed in a single-elimination tournament until the two finalists remained for the gold and silver medals. Those who lost to the finalists from the earlier rounds would wrestle against each other through a Bergvall style repechage tournament to determine the two bronze medalists.

Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	1	2	10
2	Japan	2	3	1	6
3	Georgia	2	1	1	4
4	China	1	2	1	4
5	Cuba	1	0	2	3
	France	1	0	2	3
	United States	1	0	2	3
8	Canada	1	0	1	2
	Turkey	1	0	1	2
10	Italy	1	0	0	1
11	Bulgaria	0	1	3	4
12	Azerbaijan	0	1	2	3
	Kazakhstan	0	1	2	3
	Kyrgyzstan	0	1	2	3
15	Belarus	0	1	1	2
16	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
	Tajikistan	0	1	0	1
21	Ukraine	0	0	4	4
22	Armenia	0	0	2	2
23	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Men

Greco-Roman

Event
55 kg	Nazyr Mankiev	Rovshan Bayramov	Roman Amoyan	Park Eun-chul
60 kg	Islam-Beka Albiev	Nurbakyt Tengizbayev	Ruslan Tiumenbaev	Sheng Jiang
66 kg	Steeve Guenot	Kanatbek Begaliev	Mikhail Siamionau	Armen Vardanyan
74 kg	Manuchar Kvirkelia	Chang Yongxiang	Christophe Guenot	Yavor Yanakiev
84 kg	Andrea Minguzzi	Zoltan Fodor	Nazmi Avluca	—
96 kg	Aslanbek Khushtov	Mirko Englich	Marek Svec	Adam Wheeler
120 kg	Mijain Lopez	Mindaugas Mizgaitis	Yuri Patrikeev	Yannick Szczepaniak

Freestyle

Event
55 kg	Henry Cejudo	Tomohiro Matsunaga	Besik Kudukhov	Radoslav Velikov
60kg	Mavlet Batirov	Kenichi Yumoto	Bazar Bazarguruev	Seyedmorad Mohammadi
66 kg	Ramazan Sahin	Andriy Stadnik	Sushil Kumar	Otar Tushishvili
74 kg	Buvaysa Saytiev	Murad Gaidarov	Kiril Terziev	Gheorghita Stefan
84 kg	Revazi Mindorashvili	Yusup Abdusalomov	Taras Danko	Georgy Ketoev
96 kg	Shirvani Muradov	George Gogshelidze	Michel Batista	Khetag Gazyumov
120 kg	Bakhtiyar Akhmedov	David Musulbes	Marid Mutalimov	Disney Rodriguez

Women

Freestyle

Event
48 kg	Carol Huynh	Chiharu Icho	Irini Merleni	Mariya Stadnik
55 kg	Saori Yoshida	Xu Li	Jackeline Renteria	Tonya Verbeek
63 kg	Kaori Icho	Alena Kartashova	Randi Miller	Yelena Shalygina
72 kg	Wang Jiao	Stanka Zlateva	Kyoko Hamaguchi	Agnieszka Wieszczek

Statistics

• There were 343 total athletes from 59 countries.
• Xu Li was the youngest participant with 18 years and 242 days.
• TC Dantzler was the oldest participant with 37 years and 291 days.
• 10 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
• Bulgaria and Georgia won 4 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan won 3 medals, more than in any other sport.
• India won its first medal in the sport since Helsinki 1952.
• France won its first gold medal in the sport since Berlin 1936.
• Italy won its first gold medal in the sport since Seoul 1988.
• Canada and Turkey won their first gold medal in the sport since Sydney 2000.
• Kyrgyzstan won its only three medals of Beijing 2008.
• Georgia won its first-ever 2 gold medals in the sport.
• Colombia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Tajikistan won their first-ever medal in the sport.

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