Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Ano Liosia Olympic Hall
Dates	22–29 August 2004
No. of events	18
Competitors	342 from 66 nations
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Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liosia Olympic Hall and 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 event with 18 gold medals being contested in all. This was the first Olympic Games that included women's wrestling events on the program. ^[1]

Qualification

Further information: Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Mavlet Batirov   Russia	Stephen Abas   United States	Chikara Tanabe   Japan
60 kg details	Yandro Quintana   Cuba	Masoud Mostafa-Jokar   Iran	Kenji Inoue   Japan
66 kg details	Elbrus Tedeyev   Ukraine	Jamill Kelly   United States	Makhach Murtazaliev   Russia
74 kg details	Buvaisar Saitiev   Russia	Gennadiy Laliyev   Kazakhstan	Iván Fundora   Cuba
84 kg details	Cael Sanderson   United States	Moon Eui-jae   South Korea	Sazhid Sazhidov   Russia
96 kg details	Khadzhimurat Gatsalov   Russia	Magomed Ibragimov   Uzbekistan	Alireza Heidari   Iran
120 kg details	Artur Taymazov   Uzbekistan	Alireza Rezaei   Iran	Aydın Polatçı   Turkey

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	István Majoros   Hungary	Geidar Mamedaliyev   Russia	Artiom Kiouregkian   Greece
60 kg details	Jung Ji-hyun   South Korea	Roberto Monzón   Cuba	Armen Nazaryan   Bulgaria
66 kg details	Farid Mansurov   Azerbaijan	Şeref Eroğlu   Turkey	Mkhitar Manukyan   Kazakhstan
74 kg details	Aleksandr Dokturishvili   Uzbekistan	Marko Yli-Hannuksela   Finland	Varteres Samurgashev   Russia
84 kg details	Aleksey Mishin   Russia	Ara Abrahamian   Sweden	Viachaslau Makaranka   Belarus
96 kg details	Karam Gaber   Egypt	Ramaz Nozadze   Georgia	Mehmet Özal   Turkey
120 kg details	Khasan Baroev   Russia	Georgiy Tsurtsumia   Kazakhstan	Rulon Gardner   United States

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Iryna Merleni   Ukraine	Chiharu Icho   Japan	Patricia Miranda   United States
55 kg details	Saori Yoshida   Japan	Tonya Verbeek   Canada	Anna Gomis   France
63 kg details	Kaori Icho   Japan	Sara McMann   United States	Lise Legrand   France
72 kg details	Wang Xu   China	Guzel Manyurova   Russia	Kyoko Hamaguchi   Japan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia  (RUS)	5	2	3	10
2	Japan  (JPN)	2	1	3	6
3	Uzbekistan  (UZB)	2	1	0	3
4	Ukraine  (UKR)	2	0	0	2
5	United States  (USA)	1	3	2	6
6	Cuba  (CUB)	1	1	1	3
7	South Korea  (KOR)	1	1	0	2
8	Azerbaijan  (AZE)	1	0	0	1
	China  (CHN)	1	0	0	1
	Egypt  (EGY)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	0	1
12	Iran  (IRI)	0	2	1	3
	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	0	2	1	3
14	Turkey  (TUR)	0	1	2	3
15	Canada  (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Finland  (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Georgia  (GEO)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	0	1
19	France  (FRA)	0	0	2	2
20	Belarus  (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Greece  (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		18	18	18	54

Participating nations

A total of 342 wrestlers from 66 nations competed at the Athens Games: ^[1]

•   Afghanistan  (1)
•   Albania  (1)
•   Algeria  (1)
•   Armenia  (7)
•   Australia  (1)
•   Austria  (3)
•   Azerbaijan  (7)
•   Belarus  (10)
•   Brazil  (1)
•   Bulgaria  (13)
•   Canada  (7)
•   China  (9)
•   Colombia  (1)
•   Cuba  (12)
•   Czech Republic  (2)
•   Denmark  (1)
•   Dominican Republic  (1)
•   Egypt  (3)
•   Estonia  (1)
•   Finland  (2)
•   France  (6)
•   Georgia  (12)
•   Germany  (9)
•   Great Britain  (1)
•   Greece  (18)
•   Guam  (1)
•   Guinea-Bissau  (1)
•   Hungary  (9)
•   India  (7)
•   Iran  (13)
•   Israel  (3)
•   Italy  (6)
•   Japan  (13)
•   Kazakhstan  (12)
•   Kyrgyzstan  (8)
•   Latvia  (1)
•   Lithuania  (3)
•   Macedonia  (2)
•   Moldova  (2)
•   Mongolia  (6)
•   Namibia  (1)
•   Nigeria  (1)
•   North Korea  (1)
•   Norway  (1)
•   Palau  (1)
•   Peru  (1)
•   Poland  (9)
•   Portugal  (1)
•   Puerto Rico  (1)
•   Romania  (5)
•   Russia  (18)
•   Senegal  (1)
•   Serbia and Montenegro  (1)
•   Slovakia  (3)
•   South Africa  (1)
•   South Korea  (9)
•   Spain  (2)
•   Sweden  (7)
•   Switzerland  (2)
•   Tajikistan  (4)
•   Tunisia  (1)
•   Turkey  (12)
•   Ukraine  (16)
•   United States  (17)
•   Uzbekistan  (7)
•   Venezuela  (2)

References

1. "Wrestling at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2019.

External links

• Official result book – Wrestling