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    2024 Olympic Preview: 67 kg Men's Greco-Roman

    It’s late July which means the 2024 Olympic Games are right around the corner. Over the next two weeks, InterMat will bring you individual weight class previews for each of the 18 weights contested at the Olympic Games. 

    The 2024 version has already been slightly different from years past. Earlier in the summer, United World Wrestling announced a list of wrestlers from Belarus and Russia who would not be permitted to compete due to their support of the war with Ukraine. After this decision, Russia decided to withdraw all of its entries for wrestling. That led to replacements being named earlier this month. 

    With all of the moving parts, and a field that wasn’t confirmed until later in the game, previewing the action had to take a back seat since we weren’t sure who would actually be in Paris. 

    UWW has recently published entry lists for each of the three styles, so we are good to go. 

    Our next Greco-Roman weight is 67 kg. Unfortunately, there is not an American competing at this weight, either. But after this one, we have qualifiers from 77 to 130 kg. 

    This weight class is one that includes one of the most exciting Greco wrestlers in the world - defending world champion Luis Orta Sanchez. He already has an Olympic gold medal to his name; however, he isn’t a shoo-in to go back-to-back. There are seven other returning World/Olympic medalists in the field and a few of them have been very competitive with Orta Sanchez. 

    67kg entries

    Ishak Ghaiou (Algeria)

    Slavik Galstyan (Armenia)






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