| TzaTzers United States. July 25 2012 08:23. Posts 429 | Profile # |
Olympic Wrestling
Medal Winners
Men's 60 kg Greco-Roman
![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/1/10/Gold.png) Omid Haji Noroozi (Iran)  ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/0/0b/Silver.png) Revaz Lashkhi (Georgia) ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/f/f2/Bronze.png) Ryutaro Matsumoto (Japan)  Zaur Kuramagomedov (Russia)
Men's 74 kg Greco-Roman
Roman Vlasov (Russia) Arsen Julfalakyan (Armenia) Aleksandr Kazakevic (Lithuania)  Emin Ahmadov (Azerbaijan) 
Men's 84 kg Greco-Roman
Alan Khugaev (Russia) Karam Mohamed Gaber Ebrahim (Egypt) Danyal Gajiyev (Kazakhstan)  Damian Janikowski (Poland)
Men's 96 kg Greco-Roman
Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei (Iran) Rustam Totrov (Russia) Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia) Jimmy Lidberg (Sweden) 
Men's 55 kg Freestyle
Dzhamal Otarsultanov (Russia) Vladimer Khinchegashvili (Georgia) Kyong Il Yang (North Korea) Shinichi Yumoto (Japan)
Men's 84 kg Freestyle
Sharif Sharifov (Azerbaijan) Jaime Yusept Espinal (Puerto Rico) Dato Marsagishvili (Georgia) Ehsan Naser Lashgari (Iran)
Men's 120 kg Freestyle
Artur Taymazov (Uzbekistan)  Davit Modzmanashvili (Georgia) Komeil Ghasemi (Iran) Bilyal Makhov (Russia)
Women's 63 kg Freestyle
Kaori Icho (Japan) Ruixue Jing (China)  Battsetseg Soronzonbold (Mongolia) Lubov Volosova (Russia)
Greco-Roman
Greco-Roman is an international discipline and an Olympic sport. In Greco-Roman style, it is forbidden to hold the opponent below the belt, to make trips, and to actively use the legs in the execution of any action.
Freestyle
Freestyle wrestling is an international discipline and an Olympic sport, for both men and women. This style allows the use of the wrestler's or his opponent's legs in offense and defense.
Men's Freestyle
Women's Freestyle
Venue
Schedule
Sunday 5 August - Sunday 12 August
Overall Schedule
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Men's Greco-Roman
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Men's Freestyle
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Women's Freestyle
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Link to ScheduleLast edit: 2012-08-13 17:57:16 |
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| Evilmonkey. United States. July 25 2012 14:12. Posts 1469 | Profile Blog # |
| Thanks for posting this man, will def be keeping track. Was a big free style wrestler in high school so this is my favorite sport to watch in the Olympics. |
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| publicenemies July 25 2012 15:19. Posts 263 | Profile Blog # |
Where's Kurt Angle?  |
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| TzaTzers United States. July 26 2012 06:35. Posts 429 | Profile # |
| Nice, I wrestled in high school as well but I did folk style, don't think we had a program with freestyle. |
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| snotboogie Australia. July 28 2012 23:23. Posts 3500 | Profile Blog # |
| This is the sport I most want to watch at the Olympics, but unfortunately it's not a popular sport in Australia so it's never shown on TV. Hopefully I'll see some on the net. |
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| CajunMan United States. July 29 2012 06:07. Posts 801 | Profile # |
| I can't wait I hope this plays on TV was a huge wreslter myself and love Greco Roman. |
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| Soxes August 02 2012 01:28. Posts 27 | Profile # |
| I'm super excited to watch wrestling as well. I too wrestled in high school and LOVE the sport. I remember watching Cael Sanderson and Rulon Gardner wrestle in the 2004 Greek Olympics. I missed 2008 because I was in college and school channels didn't show more than one olympic station. USA WRESTLING SON! |
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| RuMCaKe United States. August 04 2012 19:31. Posts 548 | Profile Blog # |
Thanks for posting. Started wrestling at the age of 4, wrestled all the way through a few years of college, following had several professional MMA fights. Nice to see some more TL'ers that wrestled. If you guys didn't know, Bryce aka Machine from EG also wrestled and is an awesome guy as well.
Cheers and enjoy! |
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| radiatoren Denmark. August 05 2012 21:06. Posts 1262 | Profile # |
| I know nothing about it, but for my untrained eye it seems Judo and Wrestling are pretty similar in many aspects. Except for the dress-code, what are the biggest differences? |
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| TzaTzers United States. August 06 2012 05:31. Posts 429 | Profile # |
Wrestling is for men.
Kidding, the biggest difference in my opinion would be that in wrestling you can pin a person for a win but in Judo you can't. I'm pretty sure you can submit a person in Judo as well but it is more centered around being able to bring your opponent off balance or using his momentum to throw him down. In wrestling your goal is to pin a person, putting their back on the mat.
Overall wrestlers don't like having their backs on the mat. It is one thing that kept bothering me when I tried Jiu Jitsu, it felt weird having my back on the mat but I got used to it.
Don't know if this helps but someone else might be able to give a better explanation. |
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| TzaTzers United States. August 06 2012 14:25. Posts 429 | Profile # |
| I'll be updating the medal winners each day (or at least try my best to) and leave them inside spoilers so it doesn't look too messy, once each of the events are over I will put them outside spoilers so people can see the results. Last edit: 2012-08-06 14:35:35 |
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| sitromit August 06 2012 21:20. Posts 6397 | Profile # |
| Greco-Roman ruleset is so restrictive, it's really hard to watch. The only way people ever seem to score is once a round when the referee takes them down to break the stalemate. I hope freestyle will be more exciting. |
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| TzaTzers United States. August 07 2012 04:01. Posts 429 | Profile # |
It's not that people scored once a round, there are two numbers, the white numbers (right side) represent what the wrestlers scored with a takedown/throw, reversals, exposure (back coming in contact with the mat). After every period, the wrestler with the most points wins that period and then is given a "point" in the blue part (or on the left side). In order to win a wrestler must win 2/3 periods so a match can potentially be over without going through the three periods if a wrestler wins two periods back to back.
There are also occasions when a wrestler wins 2/3 periods but can still lose due to the total points.
Example: 2-1, 0-3, 1-0.
In this case the first wrestler won 2/3 periods but came to a total of 3 points and the second wrestler only won 1 period but had a total of 4 points, making him the victor.
Hopefully this helps a little bit. |
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| sitromit August 07 2012 04:13. Posts 6397 | Profile # |
I know how the scoring works, I'm talking about how for the majority of matches, nobody scores until 1:30 into the round, where they're forced to go par terre due to stalemate.
Basically, the matches are very boring. Last edit: 2012-08-07 04:14:22 |
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| TzaTzers United States. August 07 2012 04:17. Posts 429 | Profile # |
| Oh ok yea some can be I guess, probably due to the level that these guys are at one little mistake can cost them the match. I prefer Freestyle over Greco so I'm waiting for that as well. |
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| Chollx Sweden. August 07 2012 23:03. Posts 38 | Profile Blog # |
Can someone with an unbiased view educate me on what happened in the mens -96kg Greco Roman QF between Totorov and Lidberg?
From my point of view it looks like the russian hinders the swedish wrestler from locking his grip by moving his arm, I'm no expert though so I ask you guys, wtf happened and was it a correct call by the refs? |
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| snotboogie Australia. August 08 2012 21:48. Posts 3500 | Profile Blog # |
| Wow, Kaori Icho BEASTING the Canadian DuGrenier who is herself a world champion. LOVING the freestyle! |
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| TzaTzers United States. August 09 2012 04:34. Posts 429 | Profile # |
Chollx, sorry I missed yesterday's matches =/
And in any sport where it comes down to a refs decision, there will always be controversy. |
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| snotboogie Australia. August 10 2012 21:56. Posts 3500 | Profile Blog # |
| What the heck? They just stopped covering the men's freestyle with a "Coming Up" screen? Didn't happen the last few nights with the women's. I want my wrestling back! |
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| don_kyuhote August 11 2012 23:15. Posts 1894 | Profile Blog # |
| Jordan Burroughs is a beast! |
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