Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Wrestling competitions at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, were held on 5 and 6 August 2022. The sport was one of six original sports at the Games and was all editions except 1998 and 2006 (the third time within England specifically), spread across twelve weight categories in the freestyle discipline.^[1]

Wrestling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Coventry Arena
Dates	5–6 August 2022
Competitors	119 from 26 nations
← 2018

Schedule

The competition schedule was as follows:^[1]

Preliminaries, quarter-finals, semi-finals & repechages

Medal matches

Men

Date Event	Fri 5		Sat 6
Session →	M	E	M	E
57 kg
65 kg
74 kg
86 kg
97 kg
125 kg

Women

Date Event	Fri 5		Sat 6
Session →	M	E	M	E
50 kg
53 kg
57 kg
62 kg
68 kg
76 kg

Venue

The wrestling competitions were held at the Coventry Arena in Coventry.^[2] The judo competitions also took place there, whilst the adjacent Coventry Stadium was host to rugby sevens.^[3]

Medal summary

  *   Host nation (England)

Rank	CGA	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	6	1	5	12
2	Canada	3	5	4	12
3	Nigeria	3	2	2	7
4	Pakistan	0	3	1	4
5	South Africa	0	1	0	1
6	England*	0	0	3	3
7	Australia	0	0	2	2
8	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		12	12	20	44

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg details	Ravi Kumar Dahiya  India	Ebikewenimo Welson  Nigeria	Darthe Capellan  Canada
			Suraj Singh  New Zealand
65 kg details	Bajrang Punia  India	Lachlan McNeil  Canada	Inayat Ullah  Pakistan
			George Ramm  England
74 kg details	Naveen Malik  India	Muhammad Sharif Tahir  Pakistan	Ogbonna John  Nigeria
			Jasmit Phulka  Canada
86 kg details	Deepak Punia  India	Muhammad Inam  Pakistan	Alex Moore  Canada
			Jayden Lawrence  Australia
97 kg details	Nishan Randhawa  Canada	Nicolaas de Lange  South Africa	Deepak Nehra  India
			Thomas Barns  Australia
125 kg details	Amar Dhesi  Canada	Zaman Anwar  Pakistan	Mandhir Kooner  England
			Mohit Grewal  India

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg details	Mercy Genesis  Nigeria	Madison Parks  Canada	Pooja Gehlot  India
			Not awarded (only six entries)
53 kg details	Vinesh Phogat  India	Samantha Stewart  Canada	Not awarded (only four entries)
			Not awarded (only four entries)
57 kg details	Odunayo Adekuoroye  Nigeria	Anshu Malik  India	Hannah Taylor  Canada
			Nethmi Poruthotage  Sri Lanka
62 kg details	Sakshi Malik  India	Ana Godinez  Canada	Esther Kolawole  Nigeria
			Berthe Etane Ngolle  Cameroon
68 kg details	Blessing Oborududu  Nigeria	Linda Morais  Canada	Divya Kakran  India
			Tayla Ford  New Zealand
76 kg details	Justina Di Stasio  Canada	Hannah Rueben  Nigeria	Georgina Nelthorpe  England
			Pooja Sihag  India

Participating nations

There were 26 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in wrestling with a total of 119 (73 men and 46 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.^[4][5]

•  Australia (6)
•  Bahamas (2)
•  Bangladesh (4)
•  Cameroon (4)
•  Canada (12)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  England (8)
•  India (12)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Malta (2)
•  Mauritius (5)
•  Namibia (2)
•  Nauru (1)
•  New Zealand (6)
•  Nigeria (10)
•  Pakistan (6)
•  Samoa (2)
•  Scotland (6)
•  Singapore (3)
•  Sierra Leone (5)
•  South Africa (4)
•  Sri Lanka (6)
•  Tonga (4)
•  Uganda (2)
•  Wales (2)