2024 Olympics: 130 kg Greco-Roman Results and Notes

The 2024 Olympic Games came to an end on Sunday. Since there was so much action going on for the last week you're sure to have missed something along the way. We'll go through each weight class and have a wrap-up for each, which includes results and some notable facts related to the weight.

Past weight classes

Greco Roman: 60 kg

Round of 16

Amin Mirzazadeh (Iran) over Adam Coon (USA)  3-1

Mijain Lopez (Cuba) over Seungchan Lee (South Korea)  7-0

Sabah Shariati (Azerbaijan) over Heiki Nabi (Estonia)  1-1

Alikhan Syzdykov (Kazakhstan) over Alin Alexuc Ciurariu (Romania)  3-1

Lingzhe Meng (China) over Jello Krahmer (Germany)  4-1

Mantas Knystautas (Lithuania) over Oussama Assad (Morocco)  9-0

Yasmani Acosta Fernandez (Chile) over Kiril Milov (Bulgaria)  1-1

Abdellatif Mohamed (Egypt) over Muhammet Bakir (Turkey)  Fall 4:01
 

Quarterfinals

Mijain Lopez (Cuba) over Amin Mirzazadeh (Iran)  3-1

Sabah Shariati (Azerbaijan) over Alikhan Syzdykov (Kazakhstan)  4-0

Lingzhe Meng (China) over Mantas Knystautas (Lithuania)  1-1

Yasmani Acosta Fernandez (Chile) over Abdellatif Mohamed (Egypt)  2-1

Semifinals

Mijain Lopez (Cuba) over Sabah Shariati (Azerbaijan)  4-1

Yasmani Acosta Fernandez (Chile) over Lingzhe Meng (China)  1-1
 

Repechage

Amin Mirzazadeh (Iran) over Seungchan Lee (South Korea)  9-0

Abdellatif Mohamed (Egypt) over Kiril Milov (Bulgaria)  6-4
 

Bronze Medal Matches

Amin Mirzazadeh (Iran) over Sabah Shariati (Azerbaijan)  4-0

Lingzhe Meng (China) over Abdellatif Mohamed (Egypt)  5-2

Gold Medal Match

Mijain Lopez (Cuba) over Yasmani Acosta Fernandez (Chile)  6-0

Notes: We’ll start with the many Mijain Lopez-related items.

You might have heard but Mijain Lopez made Olympic history by becoming the first athlete to win the same event in five separate Olympic Games. 

Lopez is the oldest wrestler to win an Olympic gold medal (41 years old). 

Lopez is now only the second wrestler with five Olympic medals joining Wilfried Deitrich (Germany). 

In addition to five Olympic gold medals, Lopez also has five world titles. 

Lopez now has a total of 13 World/Olympic medals. 

Lopez’s first Olympic gold medal came in 2008 at the Beijing Games - the American representative at 120 kg that year was Dremiel Byers. 

For the second consecutive Olympic Games, Lopez was responsible for Amin Mirzazadeh’s lone loss. 

Mirzazadeh is a now a three-time World/Olympic medalist. 

The 130 kg finals featured a pair of former training partners in Lopez and Yasmani Acosta Fernandez who fled Cuba to wrestle for Chile. 

Acosta Fernandez’s medal is the first Olympic medal in Greco-Roman for Chile. 

This was Acosta Fernandez’s second World/Olympic medal. He previously was a world bronze medalist in 2017….also in Paris. 

Acosta Fernandez made the Olympic finals while only posting four total points during his three matches en route to the gold medal match. 

The combined age of the two finalists was 77. 

A bronze medal matchup at this weight also featured a pair of wrestlers who previously represented Iran. Mirzazadeh defeated Sabah Shariati who now wrestles for Azerbaijan. 

The bronze medal for Lingze Meng is his first at the Senior level. 

Meng defeated Egypt’s Abdellatif Mohamed for the bronze medal. Last year, Mohamed defeated Meng 3-2 in the bronze medal match at the World Championships. 

There’s something about Meng and these rematches. In the first round he defeated Germany’s Jello Krahmer - the same opponent he beat in his first match at the 2023 World Championships. 

The first round at this weight class saw three former world silver medalists fall. Kiril Milov, Adam Coon, and Heiki Nabi. 

Aside from Lopez, the wrestler at this weight who has the most Olympic experience is Romania’s Alin Alexuc Ciurariu who competed in his four Olympic Games. Unfortunately, he has yet to win a medal. 

Three of the eight seeded wrestlers fell in the opening round. #4 Alexc Ciurariu (to Syzdykov), #5 Nabi (to Shariati), #8 Lee (to Lopez).