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Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Dates
  
12–21 August

Competitors
  
344

Venue
  
China Agricultural University Gymnasium

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

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Women's freestyle

  • Men's freestyle 74 kg Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan originally won silver medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.
  • Men's freestyle 96 kg Taimuraz Tigiyev of Kazakhstan originally won silver medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.
  • Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan originally won silver medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.
  • Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg Ara Abrahamian of Sweden originally won one of the two bronze medals in the 84 kg weight class but was disqualified by the IOC after he stepped off the podium and dropped his medal in the center of the mat to protest the judges decision which cost him the match against the eventual gold medal recipient, Andrea Minguzzi from Italy. The Court of Arbitration for Sport also 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. Not challenging the outcome of the match and the technical judgments, the arbitration stated that the FILA is 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.
  • Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg Asset Mambetov of Kazakhstan originally won bronze medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.
  • Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg Khasan Baroyev of Russia originally won silver medal, but have disqualified after failing anti-doping test in 2016 wave of retesting. United World Wrestling have reallocated medals accordingly.

    • Participating nations

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

    References

    Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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