Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 13 According to the official website of the World Wrestling Federation, the World Qualifying Tournament for the Wrestling Event of the Paris Olympic Games held in Istanbul, Turkey ended on the 12th local time, and the two Chinese players who failed to qualify for the Olympics the day before were desperate in the last day of the competition, winning the last Olympic tickets in the men's freestyle wrestling 57 kg and 97 kg respectively, helping the Chinese team finally lock in 11 Olympic quotas.
According to the rules, the top three teams in each class of the World Qualification Tournament will win Olympic tickets. The winner of the semi-finals automatically qualifies, while the loser in the semi-finals will compete for a third Olympic ticket with the other players involved in the repechage.
In the men's freestyle wrestling competition the day before, China's Habila Awusayiman lost in the semi-finals of the 97kg class and needed to play a bronze medal match the next day to qualify for the Olympic qualification play-offs. His team-mate Chow Wanhao was in an even more difficult position, as he suffered a defeat in the 57kg eighths and needed to break through in the repechage before he could progress to the bronze medal match and the Olympic qualification play-offs.
In the match of the day, Habila Awusaiman took the lead in the bronze medal match with an absolute advantage of 11-0 over Italy, and then defeated Uzbekistan's Ibrahimov 2-1 in the Olympic qualification play-off to qualify for the Olympic Games.
In the 57kg category, Zou won the bronze medal with an 8-6 victory over Kazakhstan's Karzhan after winning the repechage, and finally defeated Ukraine's Yatsenko 5-1 in the Olympic qualification play-off to earn the last ticket in the division.
So far, the allocation of quota places for wrestling events in the Paris Olympics has ended, and the Chinese team has won a total of 11 Olympic quotas, namely women's freestyle 50kg, 53kg, 57kg, 68kg and 76kg, men's freestyle 57kg, 97kg and 125kg, and men's Greco-Roman 60kg, 87kg and 130kg, tying the number of participants in the Tokyo Olympics.