Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia 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.

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

[edit] Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Mavlet Batirov Russia (RUS)	Stephen Abas United States (USA)	Chikara Tanabe Japan (JPN)
60 kg details	Yandro Quintana Cuba (CUB)	Masoud Mostafa Jokar Iran (IRI)	Kenji Inoue Japan (JPN)
66 kg details	Elbrus Tedeyev Ukraine (UKR)	Jamill Kelly United States (USA)	Makhach Murtazaliev Russia (RUS)
74 kg details	Buvaisar Saitiev Russia (RUS)	Gennadiy Laliyev Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Ivan Fundora Cuba (CUB)
84 kg details	Cael Sanderson United States (USA)	Moon Eui-Jae South Korea (KOR)	Sazhid Sazhidov Russia (RUS)
96 kg details	Khadjimourat Gatsalov Russia (RUS)	Magomed Ibragimov Uzbekistan (UZB)	Alireza Heidari Iran (IRI)
120 kg details	Artur Taymazov Uzbekistan (UZB)	Alireza Rezaei Iran (IRI)	Aydin Polatci Turkey (TUR)

[edit] Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Istvan Majoros Hungary (HUN)	Gueidar Mamedaliev Russia (RUS)	Artiom Kiouregkian Greece (GRE)
60 kg details	Jung Ji-Hyun South Korea (KOR)	Roberto Monzon Cuba (CUB)	Armen Nazarian Bulgaria (BUL)
66 kg details	Farid Mansurov Azerbaijan (AZE)	Şeref Eroğlu Turkey (TUR)	Mkkhitar Manukyan Kazakhstan (KAZ)
74 kg details	Alexandr Dokturishvili Uzbekistan (UZB)	Marko Yli-Hannuksela Finland (FIN)	Varteres Samourgachev Russia (RUS)
84 kg details	Alexei Michine Russia (RUS)	Ara Abrahamian Sweden (SWE)	Viachaslau Makaranka Belarus (BLR)
96 kg details	Karam Gaber Egypt (EGY)	Ramaz Nozadze Georgia (GEO)	Mehmet Özal Turkey (TUR)
120 kg details	Khasan Baroyev Russia (RUS)	Georgiy Tsurtsumia Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Rulon Gardner United States (USA)

[edit] Women's events

[edit] Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Irini Merleni Ukraine (UKR)	Chiharu Icho Japan (JPN)	Patricia Miranda United States (USA)
55 kg details	Saori Yoshida Japan (JPN)	Tonya Verbeek Canada (CAN)	Anna Gomis France (FRA)
63 kg details	Kaori Icho Japan (JPN)	Sara McMann United States (USA)	Lise Legrand France (FRA)
72 kg details	Wang Xu China (CHN)	Gouzel Maniourova Russia (RUS)	Kyoko Hamaguchi Japan (JPN)

[edit] 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

[edit] Participating nations

A total of 342 wrestlers from 66 nations competed at the Athens Games:

[edit] References

• Official Report

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