Wrestling at the 2024 Paris Olympics will take place from August 5-11 and will feature the best wrestlers in the world. United World Wrestling recently released the top 8 seeds for every 16-wrestler bracket at the Games. Check out the below article to see the top 8 seeds at every weight and a brief explanation of how these seeds were determined.

How Are Olympic Wrestling Seeds Determined?

It's important to understand how these seeds were set because they differ largely from how seeds are determined in the American wrestling system. Rather than seeding by head-to-head matchups and results (like in America), United World Wrestling uses ranking points earned annually by individual wrestlers to determine the top 8 Olympic seeds. Wrestlers can earn these rankings (or seeding) points at the World Championships, Continental Championships, or two different Ranking Series events. Wrestlers at the Olympics are then seeded by their points. This system encourages the best wrestlers to participate in the events UWW puts on throughout the year. Finally, any of the below seeds can change only if a seeded wrestler does not attend the Olympic Games.

Men's Freestyle

57kg

No. 1 Stevan MICIC (SRB)

No. 2 Rei HIGUCHI (JPN )

No. 3 Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM)

No. 4 Meirambek KARTBAY (KAZ)

No. 5 Zelimkhan ABAKAROV (ALB)

No. 6 Aman AMAN (IND)

No. 7 Wanhao ZOU (CHN)

No. 8 Gulomjon ABDULLAEV (UZB)

65kg

No. 1 Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM)

No. 2 Rahman AMOUZAD (IRI)

No. 3 Ismail MUSUKAEV (HUN)

No. 4 Sebastian RIVERA (PUR)

No. 5 Maxim Sacultan (MDA)

No. 6 Haji ALIYEV (AZE)

No. 7 Islam DUDAEV (ALB)

No. 8 Tulga TUMUR OCHIR (MGL)

74kg

No. 1 Kyle DAKE (USA)

No. 2 Turan BAYRAMOV (AZE)

No. 3 Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS (GRE)

No. 4 Daichi TAKATANI (JPN)

No. 5 Khetik TSABOLOV (SRB)

No. 6 Feng LU (CHN)

No. 7 Tajmuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK)

No. 8 Bacar NDUM (GBS)

86kg

No. 1 Azamat DAULETBEKOV (KAZ)

No. 2 Hassan YAZDANICHARATI (IRI)

No. 3 Myles AMINE (SMR)

No. 4 Javrail SHAPIEV (UZB)

No. 5 Magomed RAMAZANOV (BUL)

No. 6 Bat BYAMBASUREN (MGL)

No. 7 Dauren KURUGLIEV (GRE)

No. 8 Hayato ISHIGURO (JPN)

97kg  

No. 1 Magomedkhan MAGOMEDOV (AZE)

No. 2 Akhmed TAZHUDINOV (BRN)

No. 3 Kyle SNYDER (USA)

No. 4 Ibrahim CIFTCI (TUR)

No. 5 Givi MATCHARASHVILI (GEO)

No. 6 Erik THIELE (GER)

No. 7 Alisher YERGALI (KAZ)

No. 8 Zbigniew BARANOWSKI (POL)

125kg

No. 1 Amir ZARE (IRI)

No. 2 Geno PETRIASHVILI (GEO)

No. 3 Mason PARRIS (USA)

No. 4 Taha AKGUL (TUR)

No. 5 Daniel LIGETI (HUN)

No. 6 Giorgi MESHVILDISHVILI (AZE)

No. 7 Robert BARAN (POL)

No. 8 Zhiwei DENG (CHN)

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Women’s Wrestling

50kg

No. 1 Yui SUSAKI (JPN)

No. 2 Otgonjargal DOLGORJAV (MGL)

No. 3 Ziqi FENG (CHN)

No. 4 Evin DEMIRHAN (TUR)

No. 5 Alisson CARDOZO REY (COL)

No. 6 Sarah HILDEBRANDT (USA)

No. 7 Mariya STADNIK (AZE)

No. 8 Oksana LIVACH (UKR)

53kg

No. 1 Lucia YEPEZ GUZMAN (ECU)

No. 2 Emma MALMGREN (SWE)

No. 3 Akari FUJINAMI (JPN)

No. 4 ANTIM (IND)

No. 5 Maria PREVOLARAKI (GRE)|

No. 6 Christianah OGUNSANYA (NGR)

No. 7 Qianyu PANG (CHN)

No. 8 Andreea ANA (ROU)

57kg

No. 1 Tsugumi SAKURAI (JPN)

No. 2 Anastasia NICHITA (MDA)

No. 3 Odunayo ADEKUOROYE (NGR)

No. 4 Anhelina LYSAK (POL)

No. 5 Helen MAROULIS (USA)

No. 6 Kexin HONG (CHN)

No. 7 Giulia PENALBER (BRA)

No. 8 Luisa VALVERDE (ECU)

62kg

No. 1 Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA (KGZ)

No. 2 Sakura MOTOKI (JPN)

No. 3 Grace BULLEN (NOR)

No. 4 Iryna KOLIADENKO (UKR)

No. 5 Bilyana DUDOVA (BUL)

No. 6 Luisa NIEMESCH (GER)

No. 7 Ana GODINEZ (CAN)

No. 8 Kayla MIRACLE (USA)

68kg

No. 1 Buse CAVUSOGLU TOSUN (TUR)

No. 2 Delgermaa ENKHSAIKHAN (MGL)

No. 3 Koumba LARROQUE  (FRA)

No. 4 Irina RINGACI (MDA)

No. 5 Tetiana SOVA RIZHKO (UKR)

No. 6 Blessing OBORUDUDU (NGR)

No. 7 Soleymi CARABALLO HERNANDEZ (VEN)

No. 8 Feng ZHOU (CHN)

76kg

No. 1  Aiperi MEDET KYZY (KGZ)

No. 2 Yuka KAGAMI (JPN)

No. 3 Tatiana RENTERIA (COL)

No. 4 Catalina AXENTE (ROU)

No. 5 Milaimys MARIN (CUB)

No. 6 Hannah RUEBEN (NGR)

No. 7 Justina DI STASIO (CAN)

No. 8 Bernadett NAGY (HUN)

Greco-Roman

60kg

No. 1 Zholaman SHARSHENBEKOV (KGZ)

No. 2 Liguo CAO (CHN)

No. 3 Victor CIOBANU (MDA)

No. 4 Kenichiro FUMITA (JPN)

No. 5 Mehdi MOHSEN NEJAD (IRI)

No. 6 Islomjon BAKHRAMOV (UZB)

No. 7 Raiber RODRIGUEZ (VEN)

No. 8 Razvan ARNAUT (ROU)

67kg

No. 1 Hasrat JAFAROV (AZE)

No. 2 Luis ORTA (CUB)

No. 3 Slavik GALSTYAN (ARM)

No. 4 Mate NEMES (SRB)

No. 5 Amantur ISMAILOV (KGZ)

No. 6 Mamadassa SYLLA (FRA)

No. 7 Saeid ESMAEILI (IRI)

No. 8 Valentin PETIC (MDA)

77kg

No. 1 Nao KUSAKA (JPN)

No. 2 Sanan SULEYMANOV (AZE)

No. 3 Akzhol MAKHMUDOV (KGZ)

No. 4 Malkhas AMOYAN (ARM)

No. 5 Yosvanys PENA FLORES (CUB)

No. 6 Demeu ZHADRAYEV (KAZ)

No. 7 Zoltan LEVAI (HUN)

No. 8 Aram VARDANYAN (UZB)

87kg

No. 1 Ali CENGIZ (TUR)

No. 2 David LOSONCZI (HUN)

No. 3 Semen NOVIKOV (BUL)

No. 4 Zhan BELENIUK (UKR)

No. 5 Nursultan TURSYNOV (KAZ)

No. 6 Bachir SID AZARA (ALG)

No. 7 Aleksandr KOMAROV (SRB)

No. 8 Carlos MUNOZ (COL)

97kg

No. 1 Artur ALEKSANYAN (ARM)

No. 2 Abubakar KHASLAKHANAU (AIN)

No. 3 Mohammadhadi SARAVI (IRI)

No. 4 Gabriel ROSILLO (CUB)

No. 5 Artur OMAROV (CZE)

No. 6 Arvi SAVOLAINEN (FIN)

No. 7 Mindaugas VENCKAITIS (LTU)

No. 8 Kevin MEJIA (HON)

130kg

No. 1 Amin MIRZAZADEH (IRI)

No. 2 Abdellatif MOHAMED (EGY)

No. 3 Lingzhe MENG (CHN)

No. 4 Alin ALEXUC CIURARIU (ROU)

No. 5 Heiki NABI (EST)

No. 6 Yasmani ACOSTA (CHI)

No. 7 Seungchan LEE (KOR)

No. 8 Adam COON (USA)