The 2024 Olympic Games came to an end last 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
Round of 16
Aisuluu Tynybekova (Kyrgyzstan) over Esther Kolawole (Nigeria) 5-1
Kayla Miracle (USA) over Nesrin Bas (Turkiye) 12-2
Bilyana Dudova (Bulgaria) over Johanna Lindborg (Sweden) 8-3
Iryna Koliadenko (Ukraine) over Orkhon Purevdorj (Mongolia) 8-7
Grace Bullen (Norway) over Siwar Bouseta (Tunisia) 12-2
Luisa Niemesch (Germany) over Hanbit Lee (South Korea) 3-0
Ana Godinez Gonzalez (Canada) over Ameline Douare (France) 5-2
Sakuri Motoki (Japan) over Kriszta Incze (Romania) Fall :38
Quarterfinals
Aisuluu Tynybekova (Kyrgyzstan) over Kayla Miracle (USA) 6-6
Iryna Koliadenko (Ukraine) over Bilyana Dudova (Bulgaria) 7-3
Grace Bullen (Norway) over Luisa Niemesch (Germany) 10-0
Sakuri Motoki (Japan) over Ana Godinez Gonzalez (Canada) 11-0
Semifinals
Iryna Koliadenko (Ukraine) over Aisuluu Tynybekova (Kyrgyzstan) 9-2
Sakuri Motoki (Japan) over Grace Bullen (Norway) Fall 4:26
Repechage
Orkhon Purevdorj (Mongolia) over Bilyana Dudova (Bulgaria) 3-1
Ana Godinez Gonzalez (Canada) over Kriszta Incze (Romania) 2-0
Bronze Medal Matches
Aisuluu Tynybekova (Kyrgyzstan) over Orkhon Purevdorj (Mongolia) 6-6
Grace Bullen (Norway) over Ana Godinez Gonzalez (Canada) 11-0
Gold Medal Match
Sakuri Motoki (Japan) over Iryna Koliadenko (Ukraine) 12-1
Notes:
This was Sakuri Motoki’s first Senior World/Olympic gold medal.
Motoki now has three medals from Senior level World/Olympic competition.
This weight class only had two falls in the entire tournament. Both were collected by Motoki.
None of Motoki’s four matches went the full six minutes. She was the only women’s freestyle champion who can make that claim.
Motoki was one of three 22 year olds in the bracket and the second-youngest of the bunch. Only Turkiye’s Nesrin Bas is younger.
Iryna Koliadenko earned her second Olympic medal when she made the finals and left with the silver. Koliadenko took bronze in 2020. She’s the first Ukrainian woman with two Olympic medals in wrestling.
Koliadenko now has four World/Olympic medals.
Koliadenko made the Olympic finals after beating past world champions in each of her pre-finals bouts (Tynybekova, Dudova, Purevdorj).
The first round bout between Koliadenko and Purevdorj was the only of that round between returning world medalist.
Her appearance in the gold medal bout made Koliadenko the first Ukrainian to reach the finals since Irina Melnik-Merleni won gold at 48 kg in 2004.
Grace Bullen’s bronze medal made her the first wrestler from Norway to medal in women’s freestyle.
Bullen is now a three-time World/Olympic medalist.
Aisuluu Tynybekova’s bronze medal gives her two career Olympic medals - a silver from 2020 is the other.
Kyrgyzstan has now won four medals in women’s wrestling at the Olympics - two belong to Tynybekova.
Tynybekova is now a six-time World/Olympic medal winner.
Of Tynybekova’s three wins, two came via identical 6-6 scores with criteria in her favor.
Tynybekova was easily the most senior member of this bracket. She participated in her fourth Olympic Games. Only five others had prior Olympic experience and none of them had more than one before Paris.
For the second straight Olympic Games, Koliadenko and Tynybekova met in the semifinals. Last time, Tynybekkova won via 10-0 tech. This time Koliadenko turned the tables with a 9-2 victory. Tynybekova also defeated Koliadenko in the quarterfinals of the 2023 World Championships, 2-2.
The four Olympic medalists at this weight were the same four women who made the medal stand the previous year at the 2023 World Championships.
This was the only bracket in women’s freestyle where all eight of the seeded wrestlers won in the first round. That continued to hold as the top four wrestlers advanced to the semifinals.
In her second Olympic Games, Kayla Miracle picked up her first Olympic win with a 12-2 tech over Bas. She was eliminated from medal contention when Tynybekova was upset in the semifinals.
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