The 2024 Olympic Games came to an end two Sunday's ago. 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
Aiperi Medet Kyzy (Kyrgyzstan) over Juan Wang (China) 4-1
Reetika Hooda (India) over Bernadett Nagy (Hungary) 12-2
Milaimys Marin Potrille (Cuba) over Yuliana Yaneva (Bulgaria) 7-1
Kennedy Blades (USA) over Catalina Axente (Romania) 11-0
Tatiana Renteria (Colombia) over Zaineb Sghaier (Tunisia) 8-4
Davaanasan Enkhamaryn (Mongolia) over Hannah Rueben (Nigeria) 5-2
Yasemin Adar (Turkiye) over Justina DiStasio (Canada) 8-2
Yuka Kagami (Japan) over Genesis Reasco Valdez (Ecuador) 2-0
Quarterfinals
Aiperi Medet Kyzy (Kyrgyzstan) over Reetika Hooda (India) 1-1
Kennedy Blades (USA) over Milaimys Marin Potrille (Cuba) 4-3
Tatiana Renteria (Colombia) over Davaanasan Enkhamaryn (Mongolia) 6-3
Yuka Kagami (Japan) over Yasemin Adar (Turkiye) 3-0
Semifinals
Kennedy Blades (USA) over Aiperi Medet Kyzy (Kyrgyzstan) 8-6
Yuka Kagami (Japan) over Tatiana Renteria (Colombia) 4-2
Repechage
Milaimys Marin Potrille (Cuba) over Catalina Axente (Romania) FFT
Genesis Reasco Valdez (Ecuador) over Yasemin Adar (Turkiye) 3-1
Bronze Medal Matches
Milaimys Marin Potrille (Cuba) over Aiperi Medet Kyzy (Kyrgyzstan) 6-0
Tatiana Renteria (Colombia) over Genesis Reasco Valdez (Ecuador) 2-1
Gold Medal Match
Yuka Kagami (Japan) over Kennedy Blades (USA) 3-1
Notes:
In her first Olympic Games, Yuka Kagami came away with a gold medal. It was her third World/Olympic medal and a second straight title - after winning a world championship in 2023.
Kagami’s Olympic title gave Japan four gold medals in women’s freestyle from 2024. This is the third straight Olympic Games where Japan had four.
In her four Olympic bouts, Kagami scored 12 total points. That’s the lowest point total for any of the Olympic gold medalists across the three styles.
Across all three styles, Japan had eight gold medalists in 2024 in 18 weight classes.
For all of Japan’s success in women’s freestyle, this is the first time that they have had an Olympic champion at the highest women’s weight.
In her first world-level appearance at the Senior level, Kennedy Blades was able to bring in a silver medal.
Blades’ medal gave the United States four medalists for a second straight Olympic Games.
Milaimys Marin Potrille’s bronze medal gave Cuba two medals in the 2024 Games, without ever having won one at any of the previous Olympic Games.
This is Marin Potrille’s first World/Olympic medal.
Tatiana Renteria’s bronze medal is the third-ever for Colombia in women’s freestyle.
Renteria is now a two-time World/Olympic medalist.
This is the first time since women’s wrestling has been offered in the Olympics that there have been three medalists from the Pan-American continent(s) in the same weight class.
In addition, one of the bronze medal matchup featured Renteria/Reasco Valdez - so another wrestler from the Pan-American qualifier was fifth.
This weight class showed a bit of a changing of the guard as all four medalists are 23 years old or younger.
Half of the seeded wrestlers fell in the opening round at this weight. #4 Axente, #6 Rueben, #7 DiStasio, #8 Nagy.
This bracket has four past world finalists that did not earn medals at this weight. DiStasio, Adar, Medet Kyzy, and Enkhamaryn.
With this being the final women’s weight class conducted, we saw a wrestler from Europe did not medal at 76 kg. That made only four Olympic medals across all women’s freestyle weights from Europe. There were nine in each of the last two Olympic Games (when women’s wrestling was expanded to six weights). Even with four weights, there were six in 2012.
photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com
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