The sports data company from the house of Nielsen, Gracenote Sports has predicted that Russia will dominate the wrestling medal tally at Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Gracenote Virtual Medal Table has Russia winning the most wrestling medals with 9 (5 gold-2 silver-2 bronze). The USA (2-3-3) and host Japan (1-4-3) are next with eight medals. Turkey (1-2-3) is next in the predicted wrestling medal count with six medals, followed by Ukraine (1-1-2) with four medals.
Four nations are predicted to get three medals, Hungary (1-1-1), India (1-0-2), Korea (0-1-2), Sweden (0-0-3). Seven countries are predicted to finish with two wrestling medals: Azerbaijan (1-0-1), China (1-0-1), Georgia (1-0-1), Cuba (0-2-0), Kazakhstan (0-0-2), Germany (0-0-2) and Serbia (0-0-2). In total, 27 different nations are expected to win a wrestling medal, according to Gracenote.
It is interesting that while Gracenote predicts Japan to win five medals in women’s freestyle, it predicts no women’s freestyle gold medals for Japan, with four silvers and a bronze in women’s freestyle. In 2016 at the Rio Olympics, Japan also won five Olympic women’s freestyle medals, but four of them were gold medals.
When it comes to overall medals, the United States is predicted to head the medal list with 117 medals, including 47 gold, 36 silver and 34 bronze. Rounding out the top 10 in the Gracenote predictions are China with 87 (43-21-23), Russia with 66 (25-19-22), Japan with 65 (30-24-11), Australia with 44 (17-16-11), Great Britain with 42 (13-12-17), the Netherlands with 41 (16-9-16), France with 37 (6-16-15) and Germany with 35 (9-12-14).
GRACENOTE SPORTS 2020 VIRTUAL MEDAL TABLE FOR WRESTLING
January 2020
Predicted medalists (by country)
RUSSIA – 9 medals (5 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
Zaur Uguev, 57 kg FS gold
Zaurbek Sidakov, 74 kg FS gold
Abdulrashid Sadulaev, 97 kg FS gold
Artem Surkov, 67 kg GR gold
Musa Evloev, 97 kg GR gold
Gadschimurad Rashidov, 65 kg FS silver
Sergey Emelin, 60 kg GR silver
Aleksandr Chekhirkin, 77 kg GR bronze
Sergey Semenov, 130 kg GR bronze
UNITED STATES – 8 medals (2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze)
Tamyra Mensah-Stock, 68 kg W gold
Adeline Gray, 76 kg W gold
Jordan Burroughs, 74 kg FS silver
David Taylor, 86 kg FS silver
Kyle Snyder, 97 kg FS silver
Nick Gwiazdowski, 125 kg FS bronze
Sarah Hildebrandt, 53 kg W bronze
G’Angelo Hancock, 97 kg GR bronze
JAPAN – 8 medals (1 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze)
Kenchiro Fumita, 60 kg GR gold
Yui Susaki, 50 kg W silver
Mayu Mukaida, 53 kg W silver
Risako Kawai, 57 kg W silver
Hiroe Minagawa, 76 kg W silver
Yuki Takahashi, 57 kg FS bronze
Takuto Otoguro, 65 kg FS bronze
Yukako Kawai, 62 kg W bronze
TURKEY – 6 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)
Riza Kayaalp, 130 kg GR gold
Suleyman Atli, 57 kg FS silver
Taha Akgul, 125 kg FS silver
Fatih Erdin, 86 kg FS bronze
Yasemin Adar, 76 kg W bronze
Metehan Basar, 87 kg GR bronze
UKRAINE – 4 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
Zhan Belenyuk, 87 kg GR gold
Alla Cherkosova, 68 kg W silver
Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi, 125 kg FS bronze
Oksana Livach, 50 kg W bronze
HUNGARY – 3 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Tamasz Lorincz, 77 kg GR gold
Viktor Lorincz, 87 kg GR silver
Emese Barka, 57 kg W bronze
INDIA – 3 medals (1 gold, 2 bronze)
Bajrang Punia, 65 kg FS gold
Deepak Punia, 86 kg FS bronze
Vinesh Phogat, 53 kg W bronze
KOREA – 3 medals (1 silver, 2 bronze)
Kim Hyun-Woo, 77 kg GR silver
Kim Seung-Hak, 60 kg GR bronze
Ryu Han-Soo, 67 kg GR bronze
SWEDEN – 3 medals (3 bronze)
Henna Johansson, 62 kg W bronze
Jenny Fransson, 68 kg W bronze
Alex Kessidis, 77 kg GR bronze
AZERBAIJAN – 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Maria Stadnik, 50 kg W gold
Sharif Sharifov, 97 kg FS bronze
CHINA – 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Rong Ningning, 57 kg W gold
Zhou Feng, 68 kg W bronze
GEORGIA – 2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Geno Petriashvili, 125 kg FS gold
Elizbar Odikadze, 97 kg FS bronze
CUBA – 2 medals (2 silvers)
Ismael Borrero Molina, 67 kg GR silver
Oscar Pino Hinds, 130 kg GR silver
KAZAKHSTAN – 2 medals (2 bronze)
Nurislam Sanayev, 57 kg FS bronze
Daulet Niyazbekov, 65 kg FS bronze
GERMANY – 2 medals (2 bronze)
Aline Focken, 76 kg W bronze
Denis Kudla, 87 kg GR bronze
SERBIA – 2 medals (2 bronze)
Mate Nemes, 67 kg GR bronze
Mikhail Kajaia, 97 kg GR bronze
IRAN – 1 medal (1 gold)
Hassan Yazdanicharati, 86 kg FS gold
NORTH KOREA – 1 medal (1 gold)
Pak Yong-Mi, 53 kg W gold
KYRGYZSTAN – 1 medal (1 gold)
Aisuluu Tynbekova, 62 kg W gold
BULGARIA – 1 medal (1 silver)
Taybe Yusein, 62 kg W silver
ARMENIA – 1 medal (1 silver)
Artur Aleksanyan, 97 kg GR silver
ITALY – 1 medal (1 bronze)
Frank Chamizo Marquez, 74 kg FS bronze
FRANCE – 1 medal (1 bronze)
Zelimkhan Khadjiev, 74 kg FS bronze
ROMANIA – 1 medal (1 bronze)
Emilia Vuc, 50 kg W bronze
NIGERIA – 1 medal (1 bronze)
Odunayo Adekuoroye, 57 kg W bronze
MOLDOVA – 1 medal (1 bronze)
Victor Ciobanu, 60 kg GR bronze
ESTONIA – 1 medal (1 bronze)
Heiki Nabi, 130 kg GR bronze
Men’s freestyle medalists
57 kg
Gold – Zaur Uguev (Russia)
Silver – Suleyman Atli (Turkey)
Bronze – Nurislam Sanayev (Kazakhstan)
Bronze – Yuki Takahashi (Japan)
65 kg
Gold – Bajrang Punia (India)
Silver – Gadschimurad Rashidov (Russia)
Bronze – Takuto Otoguro (Japan)
Bronze – Daulet Niyazbekov (Kazakhstan)
74 kg
Gold – Zaurbek Sidakov (Russia)
Silver – Jordan Burroughs (USA)
Bronze – Frank Chamizo Marquez (Italy)
Bronze – Zelimkhan Khadjiev (France)
86 kg
Gold – Hassan Yazdanicharati (Iran)
Silver –David Taylor (USA)
Bronze –Deepak Punia (India)
Bronze –Fatih Erdin (Turkey)
97 kg
Gold – Abdulrashid Sadulaev (Russia)
Silver – Kyle Snyder (USA)
Bronze – Sharif Sharifov (Azerbaijan)
Bronze – Elizbar Odikadze (Georgia)
125 kg
Gold – Geno Petriashvili (Georgia)
Silver –Taha Akgul (Turkey)
Bronze –Nick Gwiazdowski (USA)
Bronze –Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi (Ukraine)
Women’s freestyle medalists
50 kg
Gold – Maria Stadnik (Azerbaijan)
Silver –Yui Susaki (Japan)
Bronze –Emilia Vuc (Romania)
Bronze –Oksana Livach (Ukraine)
53 kg
Gold – Pak Yong-Mi (North Korea)
Silver –Mayu Mukaida (Japan)
Bronze –Vinesh Phogat (India)
57 kg
Gold – Rong Ningning (China)
Silver – Risako Kawai (Japan)
Bronze – Emese Barka (Hungary)
Bronze – Odunayo Adekuoroye (Nigeria)
62 kg
Gold – Aisuluu Tynbekova (Kyrgyzstan)
Silver – Taybe Yusein (Bulgaria)
Bronze – Yukako Kawai (Japan)
Bronze – Henna Johansson (Sweden)
68 kg
Gold – Tamyra Mensah-Stock (USA)
Silver – Alla Cherkosova (Ukraine)
Bronze – Jenny Fransson (Sweden)
Bronze –Zhou Feng (China)
76 kg
Gold – Adeline Gray (USA)
Silver – Hiroe Minagawa (Japan)
Bronze – Yasemin Adar (Turkey)
Bronze – Aline Focken (Germany)
Greco-Roman medalists
60 kg
Gold – Kenchiro Fumita (Japan)
Silver – Sergey Emelin (Russia)
Bronze – Kim Seung-Hak (Korea)
Bronze –Victor Ciobanu (Moldova)
67 kg
Gold –Artem Surkov (Russia)
Silver – Ismael Borrero Molina (Cuba)
Bronze – Ryu Han-Soo (Korea)
Bronze – Mate Nemes (Serbia)
77 kg
Gold – Tamasz Lorincz (Hungary)
Silver –Kim Hyun-Woo (Korea)
Bronze – Alex Kessidis (Sweden)
Bronze –Aleksandr Chekhirkin (Russia)
87 kg
Gold – Zhan Belenyuk (Ukraine)
Silver – Viktor Lorincz (Hungary)
Bronze – Metehan Basar (Turkey)
Bronze – Denis Kudla (Germany)
97 kg
Gold – Musa Evloev (Russia)
Silver –Artur Aleksanyan (Armenia)
Bronze –Mikhail Kajaia (Serbia)
Bronze – G’Angelo Hancock (USA)
130 kg
Gold – Riza Kayaalp (Turkey)
Silver –Oscar Pino Hinds (Cuba)
Bronze – Heiki Nabi (Estonia)
Bronze –Sergey Semenov (Russia)
