Aug. 7 Schedule

Here's a look at what's on tap for the third day of wrestling on Wednesday, Aug. 7. All matches from both sessions can be streamed live on NBCOlympics.com and Peacock.

Session 1 — Time: 5:00 a.m. ET

Round of 16/Quarterfinals:

  • Women's Freestyle 53kg
  • Greco-Roman 67kg 
  • Greco-Roman 87kg

Repechage Rounds:

  • Women's Freestyle 50kg
  • Greco-Roman 57kg
  • Greco-Roman 97kg

Session 2 — Time: 12:15 p.m. ET

Semifinals:

  • Women's Freestyle 53kg
  • Greco-Roman 67kg
  • Greco-Roman 87kg

Gold/Bronze Medal Matches:

  • Women's Freestyle 50kg
  • Greco-Roman 67kg
  • Greco-Roman 87kg

Wednesday's medal events

Three wrestling medals of the Paris Games will be awarded, as the three weight classes that got underway on Tuesday will have their gold medal matches on Wednesday.

Women's freestyle 50kg

Will Team USA's Sarah Hildebrandt double down on compatriot Amit Elor's gold medal run with a second first-place finish at the Paris Olympics?

It's certainly possible — though Indian opponent Vinesh Phogat owns two bronze World Wrestling Championship medals and has appeared in three Olympics, the 29-year-old has come away from the Games empty-handed ... until now. Phogat upset Japan's Tokyo 2020 gold medalist Yui Susaki in her opener, and while her two subsequent matches were close, she still managed to emerge victorious.

Men's Greco-Roman 77kg

Japan's finalist Nao Kusaka had a haul of almost exclusively bronze medals until this year's Asian Championships, where the 23-year-old earned gold. He'll look to repeat the feat over Kazakhstan's 34-year-old Demeu Zhadrayev, whose biggest win was a silver medal at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in Paris. (Or maybe the City of Light just suits him?)

Men's Greco-Roman 97kg

Armenia's Artur Aleksanyan has placed on each podium position across the last three Olympics: bronze at the 2012 London Olympics, gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The 32-year-old, nicknamed "White Bear," is guaranteed silver in Paris. To win gold, he'll have to overwhelm Mohammad Savari of Iran — the Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist who won titles at the 2022 Asian Games and 2023 Asian Championships.

Getting underway

Women's freestyle 53kg

Japan's 20-year-old Akari Fujinama already has two 53kg world championship golds under her belt, plus two Asian Championships golds in the same weight class. Last summer, she defeated the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist, Mayu Sadochi (absent from Paris). Forced to withdraw from April's Asian Games due to injury, it's unclear whether she will be healthy enough to overcome competitors like China's Pang Qianyu, who earned silver last Games.  

The U.S. will field a world champion in California's Dominique Parrish. Despite winning the world title in 2022, Parrish crashed out of the next year's edition in the first round.

Greco-Roman 67kg

After Cuban Mijain Lopez's astonishing fifth consecutive gold medal on Tuesday, expect compatriot — and 2020 Tokyo Games 60kg gold medalist — Luis Alberto Orta to be fired up and primed to pin his opponents. Azerbaijan’s Hasrat Jafarov finished second to Orta at the 2023 Wrestling World Championships and could swap podium placements. Iran’s Saeid Esmaeili, replacing Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Mohammadreza Geraei, is also a strong medal contender.

Greco-Roman 87kg

Ukraine’s Zhan Beleniuk seeks his third Olympic medal, and second consecutive gold, at the 2024 Paris Olympics. After a 2023 World Championship bronze medal, he might have trouble with Turkiye’s Ali Cengiz or Hungary's David Losonczi, both of whom are 2023 World Championship gold medalists due to a controversial referee decision that United World Wrestling retracted last November.