Wrestling Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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I wrote something about Japan Olympic team earlier 

 

I just have to add that Nonoka Ozaki beat Ami Ishii 5-4 in their playoff match and qualified for Paris 2024.

 

Edited January 29, 2024 by Sindo

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to lower the costs, UWW is having Continental Championships just one weak before the Olympic qualifiers. except for Europe of course. people in Europe always cared a lot about the European Champs.

 

while I do understand their reasons but they could have done it another way, but they made a mess, and ruined the prestige of continental championships. what's the point of having them in the olympic year, just to fill up the calendar ? 

 

per rules. countries have to participate in Continental Championships to become eligible to participate in the OG qualifier with the same number of wrestlers. they don't necessarily have to send the same guys, but most countries don't have enough budget to send two different teams for the Continental Champs and the qualifier. so it's mostly the same team for two events.

 

this led to something very weird and interesting tonight, Yasmani Acosta from Chile (he is Cuban) won the 130kg gold medal in Pan American Champs tonight without winning a single match  and it wasn't like nobody else entered. there were 6 other guys, he had to win 3 matches to win the gold but all of them happened to be a walkover , he lost his first group match, but from there nobody else showed up on the mat to face him.  he is a tough guy. can drain your energy, those wrestlers probably thought it doesn't worth wrestling him now, one week before the main event. (no idea why the final didn't happen Oscar Pino is already qualified and is not concerned about the next week event)

 

 

here is the result. "VIN" means victory by injury 

https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/show/1eeb687a-ec52-6a1a-b325-370640f43f22/print/complete-results

[intoronto 6,393]

 just won a medal at the Pan American Championships. Surely their first ever?

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We had the US trials tonight/today with a big big surprise. Olympic Champion and 2022 and 2023 World Champion David Taylor is not going to defend his Olympic title, he lost twice to Aaron Brooks ! 

 

Freestyle

57: Spencer Lee (has to qualify)

65: Zain Retherford (has to qualify)

74: Kyle Dake

86: Aaron Brooks

97: Kyle Snyder

125: Mason Parris

 

Greco

60: Dalton Roberts (has to qualify)

67: Ellis Coleman (has to qualify)

77: Kamal Bey (has to qualify)

87: Payton Jacobson

97: Josef Rau

130: Adam Coon

 

interestingly all 3 guys won the quota in Pan-Am qualifiers lost here to the challenger ! 

 

Women
50: Sarah Hildebrandt

53: Dominique Parrish

57: Helen Maroulis

62: Kayla Miracle

68: Amit Elor

76: Kennedy Blades

[sounak 40]

On 4/20/2024 at 8:17 PM, MHSN said:

We had the US trials tonight/today with a big big surprise. Olympic Champion and 2022 and 2023 World Champion David Taylor is not going to defend his Olympic title, he lost twice to Aaron Brooks ! 

 

Freestyle

57: Spencer Lee (has to qualify)

65: Zain Retherford (has to qualify)

74: Kyle Dake

86: Aaron Brooks

97: Kyle Snyder

125: Mason Parris

 

Greco

60: Dalton Roberts (has to qualify)

67: Ellis Coleman (has to qualify)

77: Kamal Bey (has to qualify)

87: Payton Jacobson

97: Josef Rau

130: Adam Coon

 

interestingly all 3 guys won the quota in Pan-Am qualifiers lost here to the challenger ! 

 

Women
50: Sarah Hildebrandt

53: Dominique Parrish

57: Helen Maroulis

62: Kayla Miracle

68: Amit Elor

76: Kennedy Blades

Wow Yazdani must be very happy 

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3 hours ago, sounak said:

Wow Yazdani must be very happy 

actually that's a long/funny/sad/weird story 

 

after losing to Taylor badly last year in World Championship final and winning the Asian Games title it was revealed that he had a serious shoulder injury. he decided to not wait and therefore undergo a shoulder surgery. he is not recovered yet to train on the mat.

 

our wrestling federation announced a very very complicated trial system for each weight. giving the advantage to the quota winners but each one of them had to meet certain criteria to make the Olympic team. in most weights everybody else had to wrestle at the nationals and the winner (I call it the challenger) facing the last year world team member at some point. for Yazdani since he was recovering there was no direct match scheduled. the challenger had to win the gold at the Asian Championship to stand a chance, he didn't and settled for bronze. therefore per "rules" Yazdani is already selected.

 

but few months ago our federation decided to bend its own rules, we had another very good wrestler in this weight in Kamran Ghasempour. he is great but simply couldn't beat Yazdani. he moved up to 92kg and despite being undersized he won two World titles in 2021 and 2022.  from 2023 he decided to move up to 97kg, after a year he didn't gain much weight and despite being great technically he couldn't handle guys 10kg heavier than himself. after losing to Kyle Snyder at 97kg in Zagreb Open semifinal he said enough is enough and our federation (realizing/fearing Yazdani might not be recover) accepted his request and therefore unofficially announced there will be a trial match between him and Yazdani for the 86kg spot. 

 

I have to tell you both these guys are extremely popular and just one 6 minutes match between them would fill a 12,000 seat stadium. people were so excited to see this match again after a while. but then Taylor losing in US trials apparently changed everything , our Wrestling Fed just announced couple days ago (this time officially) that there will be no direct match between them, Yazdani is going to the Hungarian Raking Series event. if he shows he is physically ready and his shoulder is fully working he is going to Paris, if NOT they will think about another solution (aka Ghasempour)

 

I'm sure Yazdani now regrets having that surgery before the Olympics. he could manage the pain and beat everybody else in the world. his style works perfectly against everybody not named David Taylor. now we have to wait another month for Hungarian event to see if Yazdani still has the same quality or not.

Edited April 30, 2024 by MHSN

[sounak 40]

3 hours ago, MHSN said:

actually that's a long/funny/sad/weird story 

 

after losing to Taylor badly last year in World Championship final and winning the Asian Games title it was revealed that he had a serious shoulder injury. he decided to not wait and therefore undergo a shoulder surgery. he is not recovered yet to train on the mat.

 

our wrestling federation announced a very very complicated trial system for each weight. giving the advantage to the quota winners but each one of them had to meet certain criteria to make the Olympic team. in most weights everybody else had to wrestle at the nationals and the winner (I call it the challenger) facing the last year world team member at some point. for Yazdani since he was recovering there was no direct match scheduled. the challenger had to win the gold at the Asian Championship to stand a chance, he didn't and settled for bronze. therefore per "rules" Yazdani is already selected.

 

but few months ago our federation decided to bend its own rules, we had another very good wrestler in this weight in Kamran Ghasempour. he is great but simply couldn't beat Yazdani. he moved up to 92kg and despite being undersized he won two World titles in 2021 and 2022.  from 2023 he decided to move up to 97kg, after a year he didn't gain much weight and despite being great technically he couldn't handle guys 10kg heavier than himself. after losing to Kyle Snyder at 97kg in Zagreb Open semifinal he said enough is enough and our federation (realizing/fearing Yazdani might not be recover) accepted his request and therefore unofficially announced there will be a trial match between him and Yazdani for the 86kg spot. 

 

I have to tell you both these guys are extremely popular and just one 6 minutes match between them would fill a 12,000 seat stadium. people were so excited to see this match again after a while. but then Taylor losing in US trials apparently changed everything , our Wrestling Fed just announced couple days ago (this time officially) that there will be no direct match between them, Yazdani is going to the Hungarian Raking Series event. if he shows he is physically ready and his shoulder is fully working he is going to Paris, if NOT they will think about another solution (aka Ghasempour)

 

I'm sure Yazdani now regrets having that surgery before the Olympics. he could manage the pain and beat everybody else in the world. his style works perfectly against everybody not named David Taylor. now we have to wait another month for Hungarian event to see if Yazdani still has the same quality or not.

That is like a movie story in itself

Edited April 30, 2024 by sounak

[yaky22 35]

for now the israel security agency will not let our westlers will the security clearence to get to the final qualification tournament ): 

Edited May 3, 2024 by yaky22

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The Greco qualification is over

 

there were 96+1 quotas, ( 96 + a conman refugee)

 

if we consider RUS and BLR as separate teams (which I do) we will have 37 countries in Greco with at least one wrestler.

 

6 

5 

4 

3 

2 

1 

 

41 quotas for Europe, 26 for Asia, 15 Pan America and 14 Africa

 

from traditionally strong Greco teams I think Sweden is missing, Brazil, Croatia, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Mexico won at least 1 Greco quota last time in 2021 but failed to do so this time.

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details of men's freestyle quotas

 

there were 96+1 quotas, ( 96 + a refugee)

 

we have 39 NOCs (RUS and BLR separated) here

 

6 
5 

4 

3 

2 

1 

 

38 from Europe, 27 Asia, 19 Pan-Am, 9 Africa and 3 Oceania

 

by my count beside those 6 Russian wrestlers, 17 more Russians won quotas for other countries. (it doesn't mean the same number goes to Paris, NOCs can change their entries)