2024 Olympic Preview: 77 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 weight class preview comes back to men's Greco-Roman at 77 kg. 

Speaking of the issues regarding Russians competing (or not competing) in the 2024 Olympic Games. That situations worked out in the United States' favor at 77 kg as the Russian is out and Kamal Bey is in. Though he's a veteran of the international scene and one of the leaders of the US Greco-Roman contingent, Bey will be making his Olympic debut in Paris. 

Can Bey take full advantage of this opportunity? We'll outline his competition below as this weight class is very similar to the World Championships from a year ago.

77kg

Abd Elkrim Ouakali (Algeria)

Malkhas Amoyan (Armenia)

Sanan Suleymanov (Azerbaijan)

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