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by Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling

Kayla Miracle (right) qualified the USA for the Olympic Games at 62 kg in women's freestyle this past weekend in Ottawa. Photo by Tony Rotundo, Wrestlers Are Warriors.

With the completion of the Pan American Olympic Games Qualifier in Ottawa, Canada this past weekend, the United States has now qualified 15 weight classes in wrestling for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

At this time, USA Wrestling has qualified at more weight classes than any other nation. Cuba is next with 12 weight classes qualified, followed by Russia with nine, plus Japan and Kazakhstan with eight.

There are 18 weight classes contested at the Olympic Games, six in each competition (men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle. Greco-Roman). The United States has qualified all six women’s freestyle weight classes, five of the six men’s freestyle weight classes and four of the six Greco-Roman weight classes.

With 15 weight classes qualified, the USA has qualified more weight classes than it contested in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, when USA Wrestling had athletes in 14 weight classes.

The United States has three weight classes which have not yet been qualified, 65 kg in men’s freestyle, 77 kg in Greco-Roman and 130 kg in Greco-Roman. The USA will have one more opportunity to qualify those weight classes, at the World Olympic Games Qualifer, an event which has been postponed by United World Wrestling.

The other three continental Olympic Games Qualifiers have also been postponed by United World Wrestling, the African and Oceania Olympic Games Qualifier, the Asian Olympic Games Qualifier and the European Olympic Games Qualifier. Nations from those continents will not be able to attempt to qualify more weight classes until those Olympic Games Qualifiers are rescheduled.

Updated Olympic Qualification by nation, all styles
(as of March 15, 2020)

United States, 15 (50kgW, 53kgW, 57kgW, 62kgW, 68kgW, 76kgW, 60kgGR, 67kgGR, 87kgGR, 97kgGR, 57kgFS, 74kgFS, 86kgFS, 97kgFS, 125kgFS)
Cuba, 12 (60 kgGR, 67kgGR, 77 kgGR, 87 kgGR, 97kgGR, 130kgGR, 50kgW, 53kgW, 68kgW, 65kgFS, 74kgFS, 97kgFS)
Russia, 9 (60kgGR, 67kgGR, 97kgGR, 50kgW, 57kgFS, 65kgFS, 74kgFS, 86kgFS, 97kgFS)
Japan, 8 (60kgGR, 50kgW, 57kgW, 62kgW, 68kgW, 76kgW, 65kgFS, 74kgFS)
Kazakhstan, 8 (60kgGR, 77kgGR, 50kgW, 76kgW, 57kgFS, 65kgFS, 74kgFS, 97kgFS)
Iran, 6 (60kgGR, 77kgGR, 130kgGR, 57kgFS, 86kgFS, 125kgFS)
Germany, 5 (67kgGR, 87kgGR, 130kgGR, 68 kgW, 76kgW)
China, 5 (50kgW, 53kgW, 57kgW, 76kgW, 125kgFS)
Ukraine, 5 (60kgGR, 87kgGR, 50kgW, 68kgW, 125kgFS)
Canada, 4 (68kgW, 76kgW, 97kgFS, 125kgFS)
Hungary, 4 (77kgGR, 87kgGR, 62kgW, 65kgFS)
India, 4 (53kgW, 57kgFS, 65kgFS, 86kgFS)
Georgia, 4 (97kgGR, 130kgGR, 97kgFS, 125kgFS)
Poland, 4 (97kgGR, 53 kgW, 57kgW, 74 kgFS)
Turkey, 4 (97kgGR, 130kgGR, 57kgFS, 125kgFS)
Brazil, 3 (130kgGR, 62kgW, 76kgW)
Colombia, 3 (57kgFS, 86kgFS, 67kgGR)
Serbia, 3 (67kgGR, 97kgGR, 57kgFS)
Sweden, 3 (77kgGR, 63kgW, 68kgW)
Uzbekistan, 3 (60 kgGR, 77kgGR, 87kgGR)
Azerbaijan, 2 (50kgW, 97kgFS)
Armenia, 2 (77kgGR, 97kgGR)
Belarus, 2 (87kgGR, 57kgW)
Estonia, 2 (130kgGR, 76kgW
Kyrgyzstan, 2 (87kgGR, 62kgW)
Mexico, 2 (77kgGR, 57kgW)
Mongolia, 2 (68kgW, 65kgFS)
North Korea, 2 (53kgW, 62kgW)
Argentina, 1 (65kgFS)
Bulgaria, 1 (62kgW)
Chile, 1 (130kgGR)
Denmark, 1 (67kgGR)
Egypt, 1 (67kgGR)
Greece, 1 (53kgW)
Italy, 1 (74kgFS)
Kosovo, 1 (125kg)
Moldova, 1 (57kgW)
Nigeria, 1 (57kgW)
North Macedonia, 1 (97kgFS)
Peru, 1 (86kg FS)
Puerto Rico, 1 (74kgFS)
Romania, 1 (50kgW)
San Marino, 1 (86kgFS
Switzerland, 1 (86kgFS)
Syria, 1 (125kgFS)

Updated Olympic Qualification in men’s freestyle
Russia, 5 (57kgFS, 65kgFS, 74kgFS, 86kgFS, 97kgFS)
United States, 5 (57kgFS, 74kgFS, 86kgFS, 97kgFS, 125kgFS)
Kazakhstan, 4 (57kgFS, 65kgFS, 74kgFS, 97kgFS)
Cuba, 3 (65kgFS, 74kgFS, 97kgFS)
India, 3 (57kgFS, 65kgFS, 86kgFS)
Iran, 3 (57kgFS, 86kgFS, 125kgFS)
Canada, 2 (97kgFS, 125kgFS)
Colombia, 2 (57kgFS, 86kgFS)
Georgia, 2 (97kgFS, 125kgFS)
Japan, 2 (65kgFS, 74kgFS
Turkey, 2 (57kgFS, 125kgFS)
Argentina, 1 (65kgFS)
Azerbaijan, 1 (97kgFS
China, 1 (125kgFS)
Hungary, 1 (65kgFS
Italy, 1 (74kgFS)
Kosovo, 1 (125kg)
Mongolia, 1 (65kgFS)
North Macedonia, 1 (97kgFS)
Peru, 1 (86kg FS)
Poland, 1 (74kgFS)
Puerto Rico, 1 (74kgFS)
San Marino, 1 (86kgFS)
Serbia, 1 (57kgFS)
Switzerland, 1 (86kgFS)
Ukraine, 1 (125kgFS)

Olympic qualification in men’s freestyle (with athlete who qualified weight class)

57 kg/125.5 lbs.
2019 World champion – Russia (Zavur Uguev)
2019 World silver medalist – Turkey (Suleyman Atli)
2019 World bronze medalist – Kazakhstan (Nurislam Sanayev)
2019 World bronze medalist – India (Kumar Ravi)
2019 World fifth place – Serbia (Stevan Micic)
2019 World fifth place –Iran (Reza Ahmadali Atrinagharchi)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – United States (Thomas Gilman)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Colombia (Oscar Eduardo Tigeros Urbano)

65 kg/143 lbs.
2019 World champion – Russia (Gadzhimurad Rashidov)
2019 World silver medalist – Kazakhstan (Daulet Niyazbekov)
2019 World bronze medalist – India (Bajrang)
2019 World bronze medalist – Hungary (Iszmail Muszukajev)
2019 World fifth place – Japan (Takuto Otoguro)
2019 World fifth place – Mongolia (Tulga Tumur Ochir)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Cuba (Alejandro Enrique Valdes Tobier)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Argentina (Agustin Alejandro Destribats)

74 kg/163 lbs.
2019 World champion – Russia (Zaurbek Sidakov)
2019 World silver medalist – Italy (Frank Chamizo Marquez)
2019 World bronze medalist – United States (Jordan Burroughs)
2019 World bronze medalist – Kazakhstan (Daniyar Kaisanov)
2019 World fifth place – Japan (Mao Okui)
2019 World sixth place – Poland (Kamil Rybicki)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Cuba (Jeandry Garzon Caballero)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Puerto Rico (Franklin Gomez Matos)

86 kg/189 lbs.
2019 World champion – Iran (Hassan Yazdanicharati)
2019 World silver medalist – India (Deepak Punia)
2019 World bronze medalist – Switzerland (Stefan Reichmuth)
2019 World bronze medalist – Russia (Artur Naifonov)
2019 World fifth place – Colombia (Carlos Izquierdo Mendez)
2019 World fifth place – San Marino (Myles Amine)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – United States (David Taylor)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Peru (Pool Edinson Ambrocio Greifo)

97 kg/213.75 lbs.
2019 World champion – Russia (Abdulrashid Sadulaev)
2019 World silver medalist – Azerbaijan (Sharif Sharifov)
2019 World bronze medalist – United States (Kyle Snyder)
2019 World bronze medalist – North Macedonia (Magomedgadji Nurov)
2019 World fifth place – Georgia (Elizbar Odikadze)
2019 World fifth place –Kazakhstan (Alisher Yergali)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Cuba (Reineris Salas Perez)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Canada (Jordan Steen)

125 kg/275 lbs.
2019 World champion – Georgia (Geno Petriashvili)
2019 World silver medalist – Turkey (Taha Akgul)
2019 World bronze medalist – Ukraine (Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi)
2019 World bronze medalist – China (Zhiwei Deng)
2019 World fifth place – Kosova (Egzon Shala)
2019 World fifth place – Iran (Yadollah Mohebi)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – United States (Nick Gwiazdowski)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Canada (Amarveer Dhesi)

Updated Olympic Qualification in women’s freestyle
United States, 6 (50kgW, 53kgW, 57kgw, 62kgw, 68kgW, 76kgW)
Japan, 5 (50kgW, 57 kgW, 62kgW, 68kg, 76kgW)
China, 4 (50kgW, 53kgW, 57kgW, 76 kgW)
Cuba, 3 (50kwg, 53kgW, 68kgW)
Brazil, 2 (62kgW, 76kgW)
Canada, 2 (68kgW, 76kgW)
Germany, 2 (68kgW, 76kgW
Kazakhstan, 2 (50kgW, 76 kgW)
North Korea, 2 (53kgW, 62kgW)
Poland, 2 (53 kgW, 57kgW)
Sweden, 2 (63kgW, 68kgW
Ukraine, 2 (50kgW, 68kgW)
Azerbaijan, 1 (50kgW)
Belarus, 1 (57kgW)
Bulgaria, 1 (62kgW
Estonia, 1 (76kgW)
Greece, 1 (53kgW)
Hungary, 1 (62kgW)
India, 1 (53kgW)
Kyrgyzstan, 1 (62kgW)
Mexico, 1 (57kgW)
Moldova, 1 (57kgW)
Mongolia, 1 (68kgW)
Nigeria, 1 (57kgW
Romania, 1 (50kgW)
Russia, 1 (50kgW)

Olympic qualification in women’s freestyle (with athlete who qualified weight class)

50 kg/110 lbs.
2019 World champion – Azerbaijan (Mariya Stadnik)
2019 World silver medalist – Romania (Emilia Vuc)
2019 World bronze medalist – Kazakhstan (Valentina Islamova Brik)
2019 World bronze medalist – Russia (Ekaterina Poleschuk)
2019 World fifth place – Ukraine (Oksana Livach)
2019 World fifth place –China (Sun Yanan)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Cuba (Yuneylis Guzman Lopez)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – United States (Sarah Hildebrandt)

57 kg/125.5 lbs.
2019 World champion – Japan (Risako Kawai)
2019 World silver medalist – China (Ningning Rong)
2019 World bronze medalist – Nigeria (Odunayo Adekuoroye)
2019 World bronze medalist – Belarus (Iryna Kurachkina)
2019 World fifth place – Poland (Jowita Maria Wrzesien)
2019 World fifth place – Moldova (Anastasia Nichita (Moldova)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Cuba (Lianna de la Caridad Montero Herrera)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – United States (Jacarra Winchester)

53 kg/116.5 lbs.
2019 World champion – North Korea (Yong Mi Pak)
2019 World silver medalist – Japan (Mayu Mukaida)
2019 World bronze medalist – India (Vinesh)
2019 World bronze medalist – China (Qianyu Pang)
2019 World fifth place – Greece (Maria Prevolaraki)
2019 World fifth place – Poland (Roksana Zasina)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Mexico (Alma Valencia Escoto)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – United States (Helen Maroulis)

62 kg/136.5 lbs.
2019 World champion – Kyrgyzstan (Aisuluu Tynbekova)
2019 World silver medalist – Bulgaria (Taybe Mustafa Yusein)
2019 World bronze medalist – Japan (Yukako Kawai)
2019 World bronze medalist – Sweden (Henna Johansson)
2019 World fifth place – North Korea (Jong Sim Rim)
2019 World fifth place – Hungary (Marianna Sastin)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Brazil (Lais Nunez de Oliveira)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – United States (Kayla Miracle)

68 kg/149.75 lbs.
2019 World champion – United States (Tamyra Mensah-Stock)
2019 World silver medalist – Sweden (Anna Jenny Fransson)
2019 World bronze medalist – Mongolia (Battsetseg Soronzonbold)
2019 World bronze medalist – Germany (Anna Carmen Schell)
2019 World fifth place – Ukraine (Alla Cherkasova)
2019 World fifth place – Japan (Sara Dosho)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Canada (Danielle Lappage)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Cuba (Yudari Sanchez Rodriguez)

76 kg/167.5 lbs.
2019 World champion – United States (Adeline Gray)
2019 World silver medalist – Japan (Hiroe Minagawa Suzuki)
2019 World bronze medalist – Germany (Aline Rotter Focken)
2019 World bronze medalist – Estonia (Epp Maee)
2019 World fifth place – China (Qian Zhou)
2019 World fifth place – Kazakhstan (Elmira Syzdykova)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Canada (Erica Wiebe)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Brazil (Aline da Silva Ferreira)

Updated Olympic Qualification in Greco-Roman wrestling by nation
Cuba, 6 (60 kg GR, 67kgGR, 77 kg GR, 87 kg GR, 97 kg GR, 130kgGR)
United States, 4 (60kgGR, 67kgGR, 87kgGR, 97kgGR)
Germany, 3 (67kgGR, 87kgGR, 130kgGR)
Iran, 3 (60kgGR, 77kgGR, 130kgGR)
Russia, 3 (60kgGR, 67kgGR, 97kgGR)
Uzbekistan, 3 (60 kgGR, 77kgGR, 87kgGR)
Armenia, 2 (77kgGR, 97kgGR)
Georgia, 2 (97kgGR, 130kgGR)
Hungary, 2 (77kgGR, 87kgGR)
Kazakhstan, 2 (60kgGR, 77kgGR
Serbia, 2 (67kgGR, 97kgGR)
Turkey, 2 (97kgGR, 130kgGR)
Ukraine, 2 (60kgGR, 87kgGR)
Belarus, 1 (87kgGR)
Brazil, 1 (130kgGR)
Chile, 1 (130kgGR)
Colombia, 1 (67kgGR)
Denmark, 1 (67kgGR)
Estonia, 1 (130kgGR
Egypt, 1 (67kgGR)
Japan, 1 (60kgGR)
Kyrgyzstan, 1 (87kgGR)
Mexico, 1 (77kgGR)
Poland, 1 (97kgGR)
Sweden, 1 (77kgGR)

Greco-Roman Olympic qualifications (with athlete who qualified weight class)

Greco-Roman 60 kg/132 lbs.
2019 World champion - Japan (Kenichiro Fumita)
2019 World silver medalist - Russia (Sergey Emelin)
2019 World bronze medalist - Kazakhstan (Mirambek Ainagulov)
2019 World bronze medalist - Iran (Ali Reza Ayat Ollah Nejati)
2019 World fifth place - Ukraine (Lenur Temirov)
2019 World fifth place - Uzbekistan (Elmurat Tasmuradov)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Cuba (Luis Orta Sanchez)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – United States (Ildar Hafizov)

Greco-Roman 67 kg/147.5 lbs.
2019 World champion - Cuba (Ismael Borrero Molina)
2019 World silver medalist - Russia (Artem Surkov)
2019 World bronze medalist - Serbia (Mate Nemes)
2019 World bronze medalist - Germany (Frank Staebler)
2019 World fifth place - Denmark (Fredrik Bjerrehuus)
2019 World fifth place - Egypt (Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Colombia (Julian Horta Acevedo)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – United States (Alejandro Sancho)

Greco-Roman 77 kg/169.5 lbs.
2019 World champion - Hungary (Tamas Lorincz)
2019 World silver medalist - Sweden (Alex Bjurberg Kessidis)
2019 World bronze medalist - Iran (Mohammadali Abdolhamid Geraei)
2019 World bronze medalist - Uzbekistan (Jalgasbay Berdimuratov)
2019 World fifth place - Armenia (Karapet Chalyan)
2019 World fifth place - Kazakhstan (Askhat Dilmukhamedov)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Cuba (Yosvanys Pena Flores)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Mexico (Jose Vargas Rueda)

Greco-Roman 87 kg/191.5 lbs.
2019 World champion - Ukraine (Zhan Beleniuk)
2019 World silver medalist - Hungary (Viktor Lorincz)
2019 World bronze medalist - Germany (Denis Kudla)
2019 World bronze medalist - Uzbekistan (Rustam Assakalov)
2019 World fifth place - Belarus (Mikalai Stadub)
2019 World fifth place - Kyrgyzstan (Atabek Azisbekov)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – United States (Josef Rau)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Daniel Grigorich Hechevarria (Cuba)

Greco-Roman 97 kg/213.75 lbs.
2019 World champion - Russia (Musa Evloev)
2019 World silver medalist - Armenia (Artur Aleksanyan)
2019 World bronze medalist - Serbia (Mihail Kajaia)
2019 World bronze medalist - Turkey (Cenk Ildem)
2019 World fifth place - Poland (Tadeusz Michalik)
2019 World fifth place - Georgia (Giorgi Melia)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Cuba (Gabriel Rosillo Kindelan)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – United States (G’Angelo Hancock)

Greco-Roman 130 kg/286 lbs.
2019 World champion - Turkey (Riza Kayaalp)
2019 World silver medalist - Cuba (Oscar Pino Hinds)
2019 World bronze medalist - Estonia (Heiki Nabi)
2019 World bronze medalist - Georgia (Iakobi Kajaia)
2019 World fifth place - Iran (Amir Mohammadali Ghasemimonjezi)
2019 World fifth place - Germany (Eduard Popp)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier champion – Chile (Yasmani Acosta Fernandez)
2020 Pan American Olympic Qualifier runner-up – Brazil (Eduard Soghomonyan)

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