2x Olympic gold medalist Risako Kawai (Photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo/UWW)Monday marked the first medals that were handed out in wrestling at the 2020 Olympics. As each weight class has concluded we will have a wrap-up for each, which includes results and some notable facts related to the weight.
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77 kg Men's Greco-Roman
87 kg Men's Greco-Roman
97 kg Men's Greco-Roman
130 kg Men's Greco-Roman
57 kg Women's Freestyle
62 kg Women's Freestyle
68 kg Women's Freestyle
76 kg Women's Freestyle
Qualification Results
Frank Chamizo (Italy) over Avtandil Kentchadze (Georgia) 5-1
Turan Bayramov (Azerbaijan) over Vasyl Mykhailov (Ukraine) 4-2
Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau (Belarus) over Jeandry Garzon Caballero (Cuba) 12-8
Kyle Dake (USA) over Mostafa Hosseinkhani (Iran) 4-0
Zaurbek Sidakov (ROC) over Augusto Midana (Guinea-Bissau) 12-2
Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (Uzbekistan) over Franklin Gomez (Puerto Rico) 10-0
Amr Hussen (Egypt) over Kamil Rybicki (Poland) 6-1
Daniyar Kaisanov (Kazakhstan) over Keisuke Otoguro (Japan) Fall
Quarterfinal Results
Frank Chamizo (Italy) over Turan Bayramov (Azerbaijan) 3-1
Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau (Belarus) over Kyle Dake (USA) 11-0
Zaurbek Sidakov (ROC) over Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (Uzbekistan) 13-6
Daniyar Kaisanov (Kazakhstan) over Amr Hussen (Egypt) 8-5
Semifinal Results
Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau (Belarus) over Frank Chamizo (Italy) 9-7
Zaurbek Sidakov (ROC) over Daniyar Kaisanov (Kazakhstan) 11-0
Repechage Results
Kyle Dake (USA) over Jeandry Garzon Caballero (Cuba) 10-0
Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (Uzbekistan) over Augusto Midana (Guinea-Bissau) 13-2
Bronze Medal Matches
Kyle Dake (USA) over Frank Chamizo (Italy) 5-0
Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (Uzbekistan) over Daniyar Kaisanov (Kazakhstan) 13-2
Gold Medal Match
Zaurbek Sidakov (ROC) over Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau (Belarus) 7-0
Notes:
Zaurbek Sidakov is now a three-time World/Olympic Champion.
Sidakov has won World/Olympic championships in each of the last three years.
Sidakov is Russia's first Olympic gold medalist at 74 kg since Buvaisar Saitiev in 2008.
Sidakov is the only one of the four seeded wrestlers to earn a medal (1) Sidakov, (2) Kaisanov, (3) Sidakov, (4) Hosseinkhani
Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau earned a World/Olympic medal for the first time. He was also a bronze medalist in 2020 at the Individual World Cup.
Kadzimahamedau was the first Olympic finalist in men's freestyle in Belarus since Aleksey Medvedev in 1996.
Kadzimahamedau defeated a pair of two-time world champions (Kyle Dake and Frank Chamizo) to make the Olympic finals.
Kyle Dake earned his third World/Olympic medal.
For Dake to get his bronze medal, he also defeated two-time world champion Chamizo.
Dake had a 48-match winning streak that dated back to 2018 snapped by Kazimahamedau.
Bekzod Abdurakhmonov earned his third World/Olympic medal.
Abdurakhmonov started the tournament facing his fellow Nittany Lion Wrestling Club teammate Franklin Gomez.
Both of the semifinal losers also fell in the bronze medal matches.
Cuba's representative, Jeandry Garzon Caballero, last competed at the Olympic Games in 2008. The American entry at that weight class was Doug Schwab.
Iran had a Olympic medalist in each of the last two Olympic Games at this weight class, but failed to do so this time.
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