Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics were held between 5 and 12 August, the final day of the Games, at ExCeL London. It was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which were further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only took part in the freestyle events, with 18 gold medals awarded. Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except Paris 1900.

Wrestling at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	ExCeL London
Dates	5–12 August 2012
No. of events	18
Competitors	343 from 71 nations
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ExCel Exhibition Centre

Competition format

19 men or 18 women competed in each division, plus 6 others allocated either to the host country or by the tripartite commission into divisions yet to be determined prior to the Olympics. Wrestlers determined by lot competed in qualification rounds to reduce the number to 16, thereafter proceeding by simple knockout to determine the finalists who competed for gold and silver. The two groups of wrestlers respectively defeated in the 3 or 4 bouts of the two finalists competed in two serial elimination repechages, with the victor in each repechage being awarded bronze.

Competition schedule[1]

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Men's Greco-Roman

Date	Time	Event
Sunday 5 August	13:00–15:45	55 kg & 74 kg qualifications; 1/8 finals; quarterfinals; semifinals
	17:45–20:15	55 kg & 74 kg repechage rounds, bronze & gold
Monday 6 August	13:00–15:45	60 kg, 84 kg & 120 kg qualifications; 1/8 finals; quarterfinals; semifinals
	17:45–20:15	60 kg, 84 kg & 120 kg repechage rounds, bronze & gold
Tuesday 7 August	13:00–15:45	66 kg & 96 kg qualifications; 1/8 finals; quarterfinals; semifinals
	17:45–20:15	66 kg & 96 kg repechage rounds, bronze & gold

Women's freestyle

Date	Time	Event
Wednesday 8 August	13:00–15:45	48 kg & 63 kg qualifications; 1/8 finals; quarterfinals; semifinals
	17:45–20:15	48 kg & 63 repechage rounds, bronze & gold
Thursday 9 August	13:00–15:45	55 kg & 72 kg qualifications; 1/8 finals; quarterfinals; semifinals
	17:45–20:15	55 kg & 72 kg repechage rounds, bronze & gold

Men's freestyle

Date	Time	Event
Friday 10 August	13:00–15:45	55 kg & 74 kg qualifications; 1/8 finals; quarterfinals; semifinals
	17:45–20:15	55 kg & 74 kg repechage rounds, bronze & gold
Saturday 11 August	13:00–15:45	60 kg, 84 kg & 120 kg qualifications; 1/8 finals; quarterfinals; semifinals
	17:45–20:15	60 kg, 84 kg & 120 kg repechage rounds, bronze & gold
Sunday 12 August	08:30–11:15	66 kg & 96 kg Qualifications; 1/8 finals; quarterfinals; semifinals
	12:45–15:15	66 kg & 96 kg repechage rounds, bronze & gold

Qualification

Further information: Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Medalists[2]

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Dzhamal Otarsultanov  Russia	Vladimer Khinchegashvili  Georgia	Yang Kyong-il  North Korea
			Shinichi Yumoto  Japan
60 kg[a] details	Toghrul Asgarov  Azerbaijan	Besik Kudukhov  Russia	Coleman Scott  United States
			Yogeshwar Dutt  India
66 kg details	Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu  Japan	Sushil Kumar  India	Akzhurek Tanatarov  Kazakhstan
			Liván López  Cuba
74 kg[b] details	Jordan Burroughs  United States	Sadegh Goudarzi  Iran	Gábor Hatos  Hungary
			Denis Tsargush  Russia
84 kg details	Sharif Sharifov  Azerbaijan	Jaime Espinal  Puerto Rico	Dato Marsagishvili  Georgia
			Ehsan Lashgari  Iran
96 kg details	Jake Varner  United States	Valeriy Andriytsev  Ukraine	Giorgi Gogshelidze  Georgia
			Khetag Gazyumov  Azerbaijan
120 kg[c] details	Komeil Ghasemi  Iran	Shared gold	Tervel Dlagnev  United States
	Bilyal Makhov  Russia		Daulet Shabanbay  Kazakhstan

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Hamid Sourian  Iran	Rovshan Bayramov  Azerbaijan	Péter Módos  Hungary
			Mingiyan Semenov  Russia
60 kg details	Omid Norouzi  Iran	Revaz Lashkhi  Georgia	Zaur Kuramagomedov  Russia
			Ryutaro Matsumoto  Japan
66 kg details	Kim Hyeon-woo  South Korea	Tamás Lőrincz  Hungary	Manuchar Tskhadaia  Georgia
			Steeve Guénot  France
74 kg details	Roman Vlasov  Russia	Arsen Julfalakyan  Armenia	Aleksandr Kazakevič  Lithuania
			Emin Ahmadov  Azerbaijan
84 kg details	Alan Khugaev  Russia	Karam Gaber  Egypt	Daniyal Gadzhiyev  Kazakhstan
			Damian Janikowski  Poland
96 kg details	Ghasem Rezaei  Iran	Rustam Totrov  Russia	Artur Aleksanyan  Armenia
			Jimmy Lidberg  Sweden
120 kg details	Mijaín López  Cuba	Heiki Nabi  Estonia	Rıza Kayaalp  Turkey
			Johan Eurén  Sweden

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Hitomi Obara  Japan	Mariya Stadnik  Azerbaijan	Carol Huynh  Canada
			Clarissa Chun  United States
55 kg details	Saori Yoshida  Japan	Tonya Verbeek  Canada	Jackeline Rentería  Colombia
			Yuliya Ratkevich  Azerbaijan
63 kg details	Kaori Icho  Japan	Jing Ruixue  China	Soronzonboldyn Battsetseg  Mongolia
			Lubov Volosova  Russia
72 kg details	Natalia Vorobieva  Russia	Stanka Zlateva  Bulgaria	Guzel Manyurova  Kazakhstan
			Maider Unda  Spain

• ^{Men's freestyle 60 kg} Besik Kudukhov of Russia won the silver medal, and while a retest of his 2012 sample tested positive for banned substances in 2016, the IOC closed the proceedings after learning that Kudukhov died in a car accident in December 2013.^[3]
• ^{Men's freestyle 74 kg} Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan originally won the bronze medal, but he was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of his 2012 sample tested positive for banned substances.^[4][5]
• ^{Men's freestyle 120 kg} Davit Modzmanashvili of Georgia originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in January 2019 after a retest of his 2012 sample tested positive for banned substances.^[6] Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified in July 2019 after a retest of his 2012 sample tested positive for banned substances.^[7]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	5	2	4	11
2	Iran (IRI)	4	1	1	6
3	Japan (JPN)	4	0	2	6
4	Azerbaijan (AZE)	2	2	3	7
5	United States (USA)	2	0	3	5
6	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	1	2
7	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	0	1
8	Georgia (GEO)	0	2	3	5
9	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	2	3
10	Armenia (ARM)	0	1	1	2
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	India (IND)	0	1	1	2
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
19	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	4	4
20	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
21	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (28 entries)		19	17	36	72

Participating nations

343 wrestlers from 71 nations participated at the 2012 Olympics

•  Algeria (3)
•  American Samoa (1)
•  Argentina (1)
•  Armenia (7)
•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (1)
•  Azerbaijan (13)
•  Belarus (11)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Bulgaria (9)
•  Cameroon (1)
•  Canada (9)
•  Central African Republic (1)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (7)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Cuba (12)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Ecuador (2)
•  Egypt (13)
•  Estonia (2)
•  Federated States of Micronesia (1)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (6)
•  Georgia (13)
•  Germany (4)
•  Great Britain (1)
•  Greece (2)
•  Guam (1)
•  Guinea-Bissau (2)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hungary (7)
•  India (5)
•  Iran (13)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Ivory Coast (1)
•  Japan (13)
•  Kazakhstan (15)
•  Kyrgyzstan (4)
•  Latvia (2)
•  Lithuania (2)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Mexico (2)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Mongolia (8)
•  Morocco (2)
•  Namibia (1)
•  Nigeria (4)
•  North Korea (5)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (4)
•  Puerto Rico (3)
•  Romania (2)
•  Russia (16)
•  Senegal (2)
•  Serbia (1)
•  South Korea (9)
•  Spain (1)
•  Sweden (6)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  Tajikistan (4)
•  Tunisia (8)
•  Turkey (13)
•  Ukraine (13)
•  United States (17)
•  Uzbekistan (8)
•  Venezuela (7)
•  Vietnam (1)