Wrestling at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Ano Liosia Olympic Hall
Dates	22–29 August 2004
No. of events	18
Competitors	342 from 66 nations
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Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman	Women
	55 kg	55 kg	48 kg
	60 kg	60 kg	55 kg
	66 kg	66 kg	63 kg
	74 kg	74 kg	72 kg
	84 kg	84 kg
	96 kg	96 kg
	120 kg	120 kg
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Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liosia Olympic Hall and was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only took part in the Freestyle event with 18 gold medals being contested in all. This was the first Olympic Games that included women's wrestling events on the program.^[1]

Qualification

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	5	2	3	10
2	Japan (JPN)	2	1	3	6
3	Uzbekistan (UZB)	2	1	0	3
4	Ukraine (UKR)	2	0	0	2
5	United States (USA)	1	3	2	6
6	Cuba (CUB)	1	1	1	3
7	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
8	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	0	1
	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
12	Iran (IRI)	0	2	1	3
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	2	1	3
14	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	2	3
15	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
19	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
20	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		18	18	18	54

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Mavlet Batirov  Russia	Stephen Abas  United States	Chikara Tanabe  Japan
60 kg details	Yandro Quintana  Cuba	Masoud Mostafa-Jokar  Iran	Kenji Inoue  Japan
66 kg details	Elbrus Tedeyev  Ukraine	Jamill Kelly  United States	Makhach Murtazaliev  Russia
74 kg details	Buvaisar Saitiev  Russia	Gennadiy Laliyev  Kazakhstan	Iván Fundora  Cuba
84 kg details	Cael Sanderson  United States	Moon Eui-jae  South Korea	Sazhid Sazhidov  Russia
96 kg details	Khadzhimurat Gatsalov  Russia	Magomed Ibragimov  Uzbekistan	Alireza Heidari  Iran
120 kg details	Artur Taymazov  Uzbekistan	Alireza Rezaei  Iran	Aydın Polatçı  Turkey

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	István Majoros  Hungary	Geidar Mamedaliyev  Russia	Artiom Kiouregkian  Greece
60 kg details	Jung Ji-hyun  South Korea	Roberto Monzón  Cuba	Armen Nazaryan  Bulgaria
66 kg details	Farid Mansurov  Azerbaijan	Şeref Eroğlu  Turkey	Mkhitar Manukyan  Kazakhstan
74 kg details	Aleksandr Dokturishvili  Uzbekistan	Marko Yli-Hannuksela  Finland	Varteres Samurgashev  Russia
84 kg details	Aleksey Mishin  Russia	Ara Abrahamian  Sweden	Viachaslau Makaranka  Belarus
96 kg details	Karam Gaber  Egypt	Ramaz Nozadze  Georgia	Mehmet Özal  Turkey
120 kg details	Khasan Baroev  Russia	Georgiy Tsurtsumia  Kazakhstan	Rulon Gardner  United States

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Iryna Merleni  Ukraine	Chiharu Icho  Japan	Patricia Miranda  United States
55 kg details	Saori Yoshida  Japan	Tonya Verbeek  Canada	Anna Gomis  France
63 kg details	Kaori Icho  Japan	Sara McMann  United States	Lise Legrand  France
72 kg details	Wang Xu  China	Guzel Manyurova  Russia	Kyoko Hamaguchi  Japan

Participating nations

A total of 342 wrestlers from 66 nations competed at the Athens Games:^[1]