2024 Olympic Preview: 68 kg Women's Freestyle

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 looks at the 68 kg bracket in women's freestyle. Though the American women's team has a pair of past Olympic medalists amongst the big six, it could be a first-time world team member, Amit Elor at 68 kg, who has the best shot at striking gold in Paris. Elor already has a pair of Senior world titles to her name and hasn't lost to an international opponent since the U17 World Championships in 2019. Even so, Elor is in a wide-open weight class that features plenty of potential hurdles and contenders. 

68kg entries

Linda Morais (Canada)

Feng Zhou (China)

Koumba Larroque (France)

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