Wrestling
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
VenueCoventry Arena
Dates5–6 August 2022
Competitors119 from 26 nations
← 2018
Wrestling at the
2022 Commonwealth Games
MenWomen
57 kg50 kg
65 kg53 kg
74 kg57 kg
86 kg62 kg
97 kg68 kg
125 kg76 kg

Wrestling competitions at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, were held on 5 and 6 August 2022. The sport was one of six original sports at the Games and was all editions except 1998 and 2006 (the third time within England specifically), spread across twelve weight categories in the freestyle discipline.[1]

Schedule

The competition schedule was as follows:[1]

Preliminaries, quarter-finals, semi-finals & repechages Medal matches
Men
Date
Event
 Fri 5 Sat 6
Session → M E M E
57 kg
65 kg
74 kg
86 kg
97 kg
125 kg
Women
Date
Event
 Fri 5 Sat 6
Session → M E M E
50 kg
53 kg
57 kg
62 kg
68 kg
76 kg

Venue

The wrestling competitions were held at the Coventry Arena in Coventry.[2] The judo competitions also took place there, whilst the adjacent Coventry Stadium was host to rugby sevens.[3]

Medal summary

  *   Host nation (England)

RankCGAGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 India61512
2 Canada35412
3 Nigeria3227
4 Pakistan0314
5 South Africa0101
6 England*0033
7 Australia0022
8 Cameroon0011
 New Zealand0011
 Sri Lanka0011
Totals (10 entries)12122044

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
57 kg
details 		Ravi Kumar Dahiya
 India 		Ebikewenimo Welson
 Nigeria 		Darthe Capellan
 Canada
Ali Asad
 Pakistan
65 kg
details 		Bajrang Punia
 India 		Lachlan McNeil
 Canada 		Inayat Ullah
 Pakistan
George Ramm
 England
74 kg
details 		Naveen Malik
 India 		Muhammad Sharif Tahir
 Pakistan 		Ogbonna John
 Nigeria
Jasmit Phulka
 Canada
86 kg
details 		Deepak Punia
 India 		Muhammad Inam
 Pakistan 		Alex Moore
 Canada
Jayden Lawrence
 Australia
97 kg
details 		Nishan Randhawa
 Canada 		Nicolaas de Lange
 South Africa 		Deepak Nehra
 India
Thomas Barns
 Australia
125 kg
details 		Amar Dhesi
 Canada 		Zaman Anwar
 Pakistan 		Mandhir Kooner
 England
Mohit Grewal
 India

Women's freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 kg
details 		Mercy Genesis
 Nigeria 		Madison Parks
 Canada 		Pooja Gehlot
 India
Not awarded
(only six entries)
53 kg
details 		Vinesh Phogat
 India 		Samantha Stewart
 Canada 		Not awarded
(only four entries)
Not awarded
(only four entries)
57 kg
details 		Odunayo Adekuoroye
 Nigeria 		Anshu Malik
 India 		Hannah Taylor
 Canada
Nethmi Poruthotage
 Sri Lanka
62 kg
details 		Sakshi Malik
 India 		Ana Godinez
 Canada 		Esther Kolawole
 Nigeria
Berthe Etane Ngolle
 Cameroon
68 kg
details 		Blessing Oborududu
 Nigeria 		Linda Morais
 Canada 		Divya Kakran
 India
Tayla Ford
 New Zealand
76 kg
details 		Justina Di Stasio
 Canada 		Hannah Rueben
 Nigeria 		Georgina Nelthorpe
 England
Pooja Sihag
 India

Participating nations

There were 26 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in wrestling with a total of 119 (73 men and 46 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Wasps to host Rugby Sevens, Judo and Wrestling at 2022 Commonwealth Games". Wasps RFC. 3 September 2019. Archived from the original on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Venues | COVENTRY ARENA". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 29 May 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Wrestling Men's Freestyle Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Wrestling Women's Freestyle Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.

External links

Wrestling at the Commonwealth Games
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