Wrestling Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[Harsh Shah 4]

India should qualify 5 wrestlers and get a minimum of 1 medal in  RIo from Sushil / Yogeshwar...

[bestmen 2,808]

Africa/Oceania OG Qualifying Tournament

01 to 03/04 2016 Algiers

 

participating,teams,results,live streaming

 

only finalists will qualify 1st+2nd

Edited March 30, 2016 by bestmen

[MHSN 3,613]

Brackets are out for Greco in Africa/Oceania qualifires

 

59: only 3 wrestlers in round robin ! EGY for sure, MAR/ALG for the other spot

66: 6 wrestlers, AUS or NZL will qualify !!! bottom half is a bit harder

75: 4 wrestlers in round robin, EGY/ALG/MAR are favorites

85: 7 wrestlers, ALG is the favorite for the top half, EGY in the bottom half

98: again only 3 wrestlers for 2 quotas !!

130: 6 wrestlers, 2 in top, 4 in bottom half

 

I hope for more wrestlers in freestyle because with this low number, some wrestlers will get undeserved quotas. EGY and ALG will most probably complete (or almost complete) Greco teams

 

PS: Morocco has Iranian coaching staff, so I hope they qualify some wrestlers here

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btw I see a former world bronze medalist Sahit Prizreni (from Albania) is listed for Australia in freestyle. he can't win a medal but he can be a bit competitive at least. I remember before 2008 Olympics he asked for American citizenship but failed, apparently this time he managed to get citizenship this time in Australia ! it will be his 3rd Olympic if he qualifies.

Edited March 31, 2016 by MHSN

[bestmen 2,808]

the draw is not normal number 1 vs number 2 in the first round what is that

[dcro 10,210]

23 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Brackets are out for Greco in Africa/Oceania qualifires

 

59: only 3 wrestlers in round robin ! EGY for sure, MAR/ALG for the other spot

66: 6 wrestlers, AUS or NZL will qualify !!! bottom half is a bit harder

75: 4 wrestlers in round robin, EGY/ALG/MAR are favorites

85: 7 wrestlers, ALG is the favorite for the top half, EGY in the bottom half

98: again only 3 wrestlers for 2 quotas !!

130: 6 wrestlers, 2 in top, 4 in bottom half

 

I hope for more wrestlers in freestyle because with this low number, some wrestlers will get undeserved quotas. EGY and ALG will most probably complete (or almost complete) Greco teams

 

PS: Morocco has Iranian coaching staff, so I hope they qualify some wrestlers here

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btw I see a former world bronze medalist Sahit Prizreni (from Albania) is listed for Australia in freestyle. he can't win a medal but he can be a bit competitive at least. I remember before 2008 Olympics he asked for American citizenship but failed, apparently this time he managed to get citizenship this time in Australia ! it will be his 3rd Olympic if he qualifies.

 

I remember that famous Madagascar vs Sierra Leone lucky semifinal draw from London 2012 (in one of the women's categories). Hoping for something similar this time.

Edited March 31, 2016 by dcro

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

I see only one non-Northern African athlete in Greco-Roman, Namibia in -66kg. Not too surprised since the region dominates Greco-Roman in the continent, but I thought other nations would at least attempt to compete. Where's Nigeria? They could have challenge for the spots.

[MHSN 3,613]

From what i see, Australia has a good chance to qualify two wrestlers here, they were really lucky with the draw.

 

back in 2012, only two Oceania wrestlers managed to qualify and since I still remember that tournament, both qualified by poor luck and accidentally. maybe this time we will have more from Oceania.

[ChandlerMne 1,031]

On 21.3.2016. at 4:59 PM, MHSN said:

Serbia might get a gold medal after all, rumor says Islambek Albiev is also in the list, actually almost the whole Greco-Roman team.

 

but again these are still rumors, even though very serious rumors.

Do you know is it meldonium or some other prohibited substance?

If GR team is caught then it is sure that we will have same situation in FS. Russia really didnt need that.

[MHSN 3,613]

20 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Do you know is it meldonium or some other prohibited substance?

If GR team is caught then it is sure that we will have same situation in FS. Russia really didnt need that.

 

Honestly I can't remember

 

btw, apparently and per Mamiashvili's claim (RUS wrestling president) only two wrestlers got caught for doping, Sergey Semenov and Evgeny Saleev. Mami claims it was just misunderstanding in Reuters article !

[MHSN 3,613]

Egypt most probably will qualify a full Greco team, they already qualified 5 and the other one will qualify too. Australia also qualified 2 as expected.

 

in 3 weights we had direct elimination system, and it's clear who qualified

 

66: EGY and AUS

85: EGY and ALG

130: EGY and AUS

 

but other 3 weights were in round robin

 

59: EGY qualified for sure, ALG will qualify only he beats EGY in last round robin match, which is not going to happen unless they fix the match ! in a normal situation EGY and MAR will qualify

75: MAR qualified for sure, the last spot is between ALG and EGY, again EGY will qualfy in normal situation but if MAR loses by TF, Fall or Walkover to ALG, in this case EGY is out 100% and can't do anything himself ! but I don't think it happens,

98: EGY qualfied for sure, the winner of ALG/MAR match will join him