Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics

38 men or 18 women competed in each division, plus 6 others allocated either to the host country or by the tripartite commission into divisions yet to be determined prior to the Olympics. Wrestlers determined by lot competed in qualification rounds to reduce the number to 16, thereafter proceeding by simple knockout to determine the finalists who competed for gold and silver. The two groups of wrestlers respectively defeated in the 3 or 4 bouts of the two finalists competed in two serial elimination repechages, with the victor in each repechage being awarded bronze. Coaches were given plush dolls of Vinicius, the Olympic mascot, to throw into the ring when they wished to challenge a call.{{cite web |url=http://summergames.ap.org/article/challenged-olympic-mascot-vinicius-finds-rough-new-role-wrestling |title=Challenged: Olympic mascot Vinicius finds rough new role in wrestling |date=14 August 2016 |website=AP Rio 2016 Summer Games |publisher=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816152900/http://summergames.ap.org/article/challenged-olympic-mascot-vinicius-finds-rough-new-role-wrestling |archive-date=16 August 2016 |url-status=live |last1=Meredith |first1=Luke |access-date=16 August 2016}}

There were two sessions of competition on each day of the 2016 Olympics Wrestling program. Except for the last day, the first session (qualification and elimination) was conducted from 10:00 to 13:00 BRT, and the second session (repechage, bronze medal and gold medal) was conducted from 16:00 to 19:00 BRT. Due to the closing ceremony on the last day (21 Aug) in the evening, the timing for the first and second session were 08:30–11:15 and 12:45–15:15 BRT respectively.

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{{Medals table

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| gold_RUS = 4 | silver_RUS = 3 | bronze_RUS = 2

| gold_JPN = 4 | silver_JPN = 3 | bronze_JPN = 0

| gold_CUB = 2 | silver_CUB = 1 | bronze_CUB = 0

| gold_USA = 2 | silver_USA = 0 | bronze_USA = 1

| gold_TUR = 1 | silver_TUR = 2 | bronze_TUR = 2

| gold_IRI = 1 | silver_IRI = 1 | bronze_IRI = 3

| gold_ARM = 1 | silver_ARM = 1 | bronze_ARM = 0

| gold_GEO = 1 | silver_GEO = 0 | bronze_GEO = 2

| gold_CAN = 1 | silver_CAN = 0 | bronze_CAN = 0

| gold_SRB = 1 | silver_SRB = 0 | bronze_SRB = 0

| gold_AZE = 0 | silver_AZE = 3 | bronze_AZE = 6

| gold_BLR = 0 | silver_BLR = 1 | bronze_BLR = 2

| gold_KAZ = 0 | silver_KAZ = 1 | bronze_KAZ = 2

| gold_DEN = 0 | silver_DEN = 1 | bronze_DEN = 0

| gold_UKR = 0 | silver_UKR = 1 | bronze_UKR = 0

| gold_UZB = 0 | silver_UZB = 0 | bronze_UZB = 3

| gold_CHN = 0 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 2

| gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 0 | bronze_SWE = 2

| gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 0 | bronze_BUL = 1

| gold_GER = 0 | silver_GER = 0 | bronze_GER = 1

| gold_IND = 0 | silver_IND = 0 | bronze_IND = 1

| gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 1

| gold_NOR = 0 | silver_NOR = 0 | bronze_NOR = 1

| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 0 | bronze_POL = 1

| gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 0 | bronze_ROU = 1

| gold_KOR = 0 | silver_KOR = 0 | bronze_KOR = 1

| gold_TUN = 0 | silver_TUN = 0 | bronze_TUN = 1

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• {{flagIOC|BUL|2016 Summer|11}}
• {{flagIOC|CAM|2016 Summer|1}}
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• {{flagIOC|CHN|2016 Summer|13}}
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• {{flagIOC|GRE|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|GBS|2016 Summer|2}}
• {{flagIOC|HAI|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|HUN|2016 Summer|8}}
• {{flagIOC|IND|2016 Summer|8}}
• {{flagIOC|IRI|2016 Summer|12}}
• {{flagIOC|ISR|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|ITA|2016 Summer|2}}
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• {{flagIOC|KAZ|2016 Summer|12}}
• {{flagIOC|KGZ|2016 Summer|7}}
• {{flagIOC|LAT|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|LTU|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|MEX|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|MDA|2016 Summer|3}}
• {{flagIOC|MGL|2016 Summer|10}}
• {{flagIOC|MAR|2016 Summer|3}}
• {{flagIOC|NED|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|NGR|2016 Summer|7}}
• {{flagIOC|PRK|2016 Summer|4}}
• {{flagIOC|NOR|2016 Summer|2}}
• {{flagIOC|PLW|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|PER|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|POL|2016 Summer|8}}
• {{flagIOC|PUR|2016 Summer|2}}
• {{flagIOC|ROU|2016 Summer|5}}
• {{flagIOC|RUS|2016 Summer|17}}
• {{flagIOC|SEN|2016 Summer|2}}
• {{flagIOC|SRB|2016 Summer|3}}
• {{flagIOC|KOR|2016 Summer|5}}
• {{flagIOC|ESP|2016 Summer|1}}
• {{flagIOC|SWE|2016 Summer|7}}
• {{flagIOC|TUN|2016 Summer|4}}
• {{flagIOC|TUR|2016 Summer|14}}
• {{flagIOC|UKR|2016 Summer|11}}
• {{flagIOC|USA|2016 Summer|14}}
• {{flagIOC|UZB|2016 Summer|8}}
• {{flagIOC|VEN|2016 Summer|9}}
• {{flagIOC|VIE|2016 Summer|1}}

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This is the official list of referees from 2016 Summer Olympics:{{cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/selection_rio_officials.pdf |title=List of the officials for the Olympic Games 2016 |publisher=United World Wrestling |access-date=29 December 2015}}

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• {{flagicon|GER}} Antonio Silvestri (Chief of the Refereeing Commission)
• {{flagicon|CUB}} Guillermo Molina (Instructor)
• {{flagicon|ITA}} Edit Dozsa (Instructor)
• {{flagicon|JPN}} Osamu Saito (Instructor)
• {{flagicon|RUS}} Andrey Krikov (Instructor)
• {{flagicon|TUN}} Kamel Mohamed Bouaziz (Instructor)
• {{flagicon|TUR}} Halil İbrahim Cicioğlu (Instructor)
• {{flagicon|USA}} Zach Errett (Instructor)
• {{flagicon|UZB}} Konstantin Mikhaylov (Instructor)
• {{flagicon|FIN}} Pertti Vehviläinen (Supervisor)
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Régine Legleut (Supervisor)
• {{flagicon|GEO}} Edisher Machaidze (Supervisor)
• {{flagicon|KAZ}} Bakhytzhan Jaxykulov (Supervisor)
• {{flagicon|MAR}} Noreddine Mochaffaa (Supervisor)
• {{flagicon|RUS}} Sergey Novakovskiy (Supervisor)

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{{Reflist}}

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• {{Cite web |url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/wrestling |title=Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com) |access-date=23 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826074416/https://www.rio2016.com/en/wrestling |archive-date=26 August 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |df=dmy-all }}
• {{SR/Olympics sport at games}}
• [http://unitedworldwrestling.org/ United World Wrestling]
• [http://nbcolympics.com/wrestling/ NBC Olympics: Wrestling]
• [https://library.olympic.org/Default/digitalCollection/DigitalCollectionAttachmentDownloadHandler.ashx?parentDocumentId=165312&documentId=165330 Results Book – Wrestling]

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