2024 Olympics: 60 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.

Round of 32

Enes Basar (Turkey) over Georgii Tibilov (Serbia)  8-7
 

Round of 16

Se Ung Ri (North Korea) over Victor Ciobanu (Moldova)  Fall 4:58

Islomon Bakhramov (Uzbekistan) over Jamal Valizadeh (UWW)  9-0

Raiber Rodriguez Orozco (Venezuela) over Murad Mammadov (Azerbaijan)  6-5

Liguo Cao (China) over Moamen Mohamed (Egypt)  6-2

Zholaman Sharshenbekov (Kyrgyzstan) over Aidos Sultangali (Kazakhstan)  6-3

Razvan Arnaut (Romania) over Enes Basar (Turkey)  4-2

Mehdi Mohsen Nejad (Iran) over Abdelkarim Fergat (Algeria)  9-0

Kenichiro Fumita (Japan) over Kevin DeArmas Rodrigues (Cuba)  11-1
 

Quarterfinals

Se Ung Ri (North Korea) over Islomon Bakhramov (Uzbekistan)  9-0

Liguo Cao (China) over Raiber Rodriguez Orozco (Venezuela)  5-3

Zholaman Sharshenbekov (Kyrgyzstan) over Razvan Arnaut (Romania)   9-0

Kenichiro Fumita (Japan) over Mehdi Mohsen Nejad (Iran)  9-0
 

Semifinals

Liguo Cao (China) over Se Ung Ri (North Korea)   3-3

Kenichiro Fumita (Japan) over Zholaman Sharshenbekov (Kyrgyzstan)  4-3
 

Repechage

Raiber Rodriguez Orozco (Venezuela) over Moamen Mohamed (Egypt)  12-1

Mehdi Mohsen Nejad (Iran) over Kevin DeArmas Rodrigues (Cuba)  10-1

Bronze Medal Matches

Zholaman Sharshenbekov (Kyrgyzstan) over Mehdi Mohsen Nejad (Iran)  3-1

Se Ung Ri (North Korea) over Raiber Rodriguez Orozco (Venezuela)  8-0

Gold Medal Match

Kenichiro Fumita (Japan) over Liguo Cao (China)  4-1

Notes: Kenichiro Fumita had a pair of world titles (2017/2019) but this is his first Olympic gold medal

Fumita’s Olympic gold medal is the first by a Japanese wrestler in Greco-Roman since Atsuji Miyahara did so in 1984 at 52 kg. 

Speaking of Miyahara, Fumita is the first Japanese Greco wrestler with multiple Olympic medals since Miyahara in 1984 and 1988. 

Fumita is the only medalist from the 2020 Olympics. He now has six world/Olympic medals. 

Zholaman Sharshenbekov (Kyrgyzstan) added his first Olympic medal. He now has five world/Olympic medals. 

Liguo Cao is now a two-time world/Olympic medalist. 

The entire 60 kg podium consisted solely of wrestlers from Asia. One of the fifth-place finishers, Mehdi Mohsen Nejad (Iran), is from Asia, as well. 

Continuing the continental theme, only three wrestlers from outside of Asia earned a win in this weight class - one of which was in the pigtail round. Basar (Turkey), Arnaut (Romania), Rodriguez (Venezuela). 

The semifinals featured a rematch of the 2023 world finals. This time Fumita came out on top of Sharshenbekov. 

Liguo Cao became only the second Chinese wrestler to make an Olympic final in Greco-Roman. The first was Youngxiang Chang at 74 kg in 2008 - which was the Beijing Olympics. 

Se Ung Ri’s bronze medal marks the first Olympic medal in Greco-Roman for North Korea since Yong Gyun Kang took a bronze at 54 kg in 2000. 

The only seeded wrestler that lost in the opening round was Vitctor Ciobanu who was pinned by Ri. 

There was one Round of 16 match between returning world medalists (Aidos Sultangali and Sharshenbekov). 

This was one of two weights in that did not have any American representation.