2024 Olympics: 97 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

Greco-Roman: 77 kg

Greco-Roman: 130 kg

Women's Freestyle: 68 kg

Round of 16

Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia) over Seungjun Kim (South Korea)  9-0

Rustam Assakalov (Uzbekistan) over Kevin Mejia Castillo (Honduras)  5-2

Arvi Savolanien (Finland) over Fadi Rouabah (Algeria)  4-0

Gabriel Rosillo Kindelan (Cuba) over Lucas Lazogianis (Germany)  7-5

Mohammadhadi Saravi (Iran) over Joe Rau (USA)  10-1

Uzur Dzhuzupbekov (Kyrgyzstan) over Mindaugas Venckaitis (Lithuania)  5-1

Mohamed Gabr (Egypt) over Mihail Kajaia (Serbia)  6-1

Abubakar Khaslakhanau (AIN - Belarus) over Roberti Kobliashvili (Georgia)  9-1
 

Quarterfinals

Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia) over Rustam Assakalov (Uzbekistan)  9-5

Gabriel Rosillo Kindelan (Cuba) over Arvi Savolanien (Finland)  5-2

Mohammadhadi Saravi (Iran) over Uzur Dzhuzupbekov (Kyrgyzstan)  8-0

Mohamed Gabr (Egypt) over Abubakar Khaslakhanau (AIN - Belarus)   4-1
 

Semifinals

Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia) over Gabriel Rosillo Kindelan (Cuba)  5-3

Mohammadhadi Saravi (Iran) over Mohamed Gabr (Egypt)  6-0
 

Repechage

Uzur Dzhuzupbekov (Kyrgyzstan) over Joe Rau (USA)  9-4

Rustam Assakalov (Uzbekistan) over Seungjun Kim (South Korea)  8-2
 

Bronze Medal Matches

Uzur Dzhuzupbekov (Kyrgyzstan) over Mohamed Gabr (Egypt)  2-1

Gabriel Rosillo Kindelan (Cuba) over Rustam Assakalov (Uzbekistan)  InjuryDefault

Gold Medal Match

Mohammadhadi Saravi (Iran) over Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia)  4-1
 

Notes:

Mohammadhadi Saravi’s gold medal gives him two career Olympic medals to go along with a 2021 world title and two world bronze medals. 

In his three matches, prior to the finals, Saravi only surrendered one point and scored 24. The one point was from American Joe Rau. 

Saravi and his finals opponent, Artur Aleksanyan, are the only holdovers from the 2020 Olympic podium. Aleksanyan took silver in Tokyo and Saravi got bronze. At the 2020 Olympics, Aleksanyan defeated Saravi in the semifinals. 

Aleksanyan also beat Saravi in the 2022 World semifinals. 

Aleksanyan made history by becoming only the 11th wrestler to earn medals in at least four different Olympic Games. 

The man they call “The White Bear” (Aleksanyan) now has 11 World/Olympic medals. Four world titles to go along with his 2016 Olympic gold medal. Only one of those medals is bronze. 

Aleksanyan is Armenia’s most decorated Olympian (in any sport) and the only one with more than two career medals. 

The semifinals featured a 2023 World Championship finals rematch between Aleksanyan and Gabriel Rosillo Kindelan (Cuba). The Armenian won this round, 5-3, while the Cuban won the 2023 world title. 

Rosillo Kindelan is now a two-time World/Olympic medalist with his bronze medal in Paris. 

Each of the top-five seeds as this weight won in the opening round, while seeds six-through-eight all lost. 

Uzur Dzhuzupbekov is the only medalist from the Olympic Games that was not on the 2023 world medal stand. 

The only past world medalist that suffered a first-round loss in this bracket was Roberti Kobliashvili (Georgia). He medaled at 85 and 87 kg and was in his first world-level tournament at this weight class. 

Arvi Savolainen was responsible for Finland’s only wrestling win in any style at the 2024 Olympic Games. 

After Aleksanyan, the only wrestler in this bracket to appear in three different Olympic Games is Uzbekistan’s Rustam Assakalov. Assakalov was eighth in Rio and Tokyo and fell one match shy of his elusive Olympic medal in Paris.