2024 Olympic Preview: 76 kg Women's Freestyle

It’s early August 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 final preview in women's freestyle is the 76 kg class. This is a new-look weight class for the United States as Kennedy Blades has made her first Senior level team after defeating the legendary Adeline Gray - a mainstay at this weight for the decade. Blades has experienced success at every age group thus far, so it's hard to imagine her not doing so as a Senior. Here's what to expect for a relatively wide open 76 kg weight class. 

76 kg entries

Yuliana Yaneva (Bulgaria)

Justina DiStasio (Canada)

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