Freestyle: 2024 Paris Olympic Games Qualified Nations
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 08:43 By United World Wrestling Press
PARIS, France -- The Paris Olympics 2024 will have 288 wrestlers competing in 18 weight classes in a three-stage process beginning with the World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
The first stage of Paris qualification was the World Championships, held in Belgrade from September 16 to 24. The tournament offered five quotas for each of the 18 Olympic categories -- a total of 90 quotas. Wrestlers who win gold, silver or bronze medals will earn a spot for their countries. Additionally, the losers of the bronze-medal matches will wrestle in a playoff to determine the fifth allocation in Belgrade.
The United States qualified four spots in Freestyle the highest along with four Individual Neutral Athletes. Iran was the only country with three qualified spots.
Serbia, Armenia, Japan, Georgia and Turkiye managed to earn two spots each while Albania, Hungary, Puerto Rico, Greece, Kazakhstan, San Marino, Uzbekistan, Bahrain and Azerbaijan won one quota each from the World Championships.
Here's the list of all the Paris Olympics-qualified nations in Freestyle:
World Championships (September 16-24, Belgrade)
Freestyle
57kg
Serbia (Stevan MICIC)
Japan (Rei HIGUCHI)
Albania (Zelimkhan ABAKAROV)
Armenia (Arsen HARUTYUNYAN)
Zavur UGUEV as an Individual Neutral Athlete
65kg
Hungary (Iszmail MUSZUKAJEV)
Puerto Rico (Sebastian RIVERA)
Shamil MAMEDOV as an Individual Neutral Athlete
Armenia (Vazgen TEVANYAN)
Iran (Rahman AMOUZAD)
74kg
Zaurbek SIDAKOV as Individual Neutral Athlete
USA (Kyle DAKE)
Serbia (Hetik CABOLOV)
Japan (Daichi TAKATANI)
Greece (Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS)
86kg
USA (David TAYLOR)
Iran (Hassan YAZDANI)
Kazakhstan (Azamat DALUETBEKOV)
San Marino (Myles AMINE)
Uzbekistan (Javrail SHAPIEV)
97kg
Bahrain (Akhmed TAZHUDINOV)
Azerbaijan (Magomedkhan MAGOMEDOV)
United States (Kyle SNYDER)
Georgia (Givi MATCHRASHVILI)
Turkiye (Ibrahim CIFTCI)
125kg
Iran (Amir Hossein ZARE)
Georgia (Geno PETRIASHVILI)
Turkiye (Taha AKGUL)
USA (Mason PARRIS)
Abdulla KURBANOV as Individual Neutral Athlete
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