One of the Olympics’ oldest sports, wrestling has been featured at every edition of the Summer Games except for 1900 — which also took place in Paris. Wrestlers will take to the mat from Mon-Sun., Aug. 5-11 as part of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Athletes will compete for gold, silver and bronze across 18 total competitions, with each of the three categories — Greco-Roman and men’s and women’s freestyle — divided into six weight classes.
Five University of Michigan wrestling alums — Stevan Micic (57kg freestyle), Austin Gomez (65kg freestyle), Myles Amine (86kg freestyle), Mason Parris (125kg freestyle) and Adam Coon (130kg Greco-Roman) — will compete in the Paris Games this week at Champ de Mars Arena. Four of five also currently represent the Wolverines’ Cliff Keen Wrestling Club.
With its five Olympians, Michigan becomes the first college program to send that many different representatives to a single Olympic Games. With Parris and Coon’s sweep of the U.S. heavyweight spots, U-M is just the sixth college program since 1956 to put a representative on both the freestyle and Greco teams in the same year. The only other time a school manned both heavyweight spots was 1972 when Iowa State’s Chris Taylor wrestled both styles.
Coon will kick things off on the first day of action on Monday (Aug. 5), Micic and Amine have the same competition schedule starting on Thursday (Aug. 8), Parris starts on Friday (Aug. 9), and Gomez will wrestle in the last group starting on Saturday (Aug. 10).
It is the second Olympic Games for both Micic and Amine, who wrestle for Serbia and San Marino, respectively, both qualified after medaling at the 2023 World Championships, while Gomez, Parris and Coon will make their Olympics debut in Paris. Gomez, who represents Mexico internationally, qualified through the Pan American Olympic Qualifier, and Parris and Coon both won their championship series at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. The quintet increases Michigan’s Olympian total to 13 in program history.
CKWC Greco coach Momir Petkovic will coach Coon, CKWC freestyle coach Sergei Beloglazov and Michigan head coach Sean Bormet will coach Amine and U-M assistant coaches Josh Churella and Kevin Jackson will coach Parris and Gomez, respectively. Micic will be cornered by his father and primary coach, Steve Micic. Training partners in Paris include: Aden Attao (Coon), Paul Petrov (Micic), Alex Dieringer (Amine), Ben Honis (Parris) and Dylan Ragusin (Gomez).
When to Catch Them
Each bracket will be contested over two days. Qualifying/quarterfinal and semifinal rounds start at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. EDT, respectively, on the first day (Mon., Aug. 5), then move to 5 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. EDT every day after. Repechage and medal matches start at 5 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. EDT, respectively, starting on Tuesday, Aug. 6, and 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. EDT on the final day of competition (Sun., Aug. 11).
Adam Coon
130kg Greco-Roman
Monday, Aug. 5 – Qualifications (9:00am) & Semifinals (3:00pm)
Tuesday, Aug. 6 – Repechage (5:00am) & Medal Round (1:30pm)
Stevan Micic
57kg Freestyle
Thursday, Aug. 8 – Qualifications (5:00am) & Semifinals (12:15pm)
Friday, Aug. 9 – Repechage (5:00am) & Medal Round (1:30pm)
Myles Amine
86kg Freestyle
Thursday, Aug. 8 – Qualifications (5:00am) & Semifinals (12:15pm)
Friday, Aug. 9 – Repechage (5:00am) & Medal Round (1:30pm)
Mason Parris
125kg Freestyle
Friday, Aug. 9 – Qualifications (5:00am) & Semifinals (12:15pm)
Saturday, Aug. 10 – Repechage (5:00am) & Medal Round (1:30pm)
Austin Gomez
65kg Freestyle
Saturday, Aug. 10 – Qualifications (5:00am) & Semifinals (12:15pm)
Sunday, Aug. 11 – Repechage (5:00am) & Medal Round (6:00am)
All times EDT.
How to Catch the Action
Wrestling at the 2024 Paris Olympics will air on USA Network, and stream on Peacock and NBC Olympics platforms from Monday-Sunday (Aug. 5-11). The complete wrestling schedule, including TV listings, is also available on the NBCOlympics.com schedule page.
You can watch every match at the 2024 Paris Olympics LIVE by subscribing to Peacock. After subscribing and logging in, either go to PeacockTV.com/Olympics in your web browser or download the Peacock app to your phone, tablet, or connected TV device and navigate to the Olympics section.
Users can also authenticate with their cable subscription, which allows them to watch live streams of every Olympic event on NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, the NBC app or the NBC Olympics app. All streams can be viewed in your web browser or on your phone, tablet or connected TV device.
Live and tape-delayed coverage of wrestling will be shown on the USA Network. The full TV listings for wrestling can be found on the NBCOlympics.com schedule page by clicking the toggle at the top to “TV Only.”
If you missed any of the live action, you can catch up by watching the full event replays on the NBCOlympics.com Replays hub. The stream links above will also take you directly to the full replay of each live stream.
The Michigan/CKWC Representatives
Stevan Micic — For the second straight Olympics, Micic is the No. 1 seed at 57kg freestyle. He is a two-time world medalist, breaking through with a bronze-medal finish in 2022 before capturing the 57kg world title a year later with wins over three world/Olympic champions in Russia’s Zaur Uguev, Albania’s Zelimkhan Abakarov and Japan’s Rei Higuchi. He is the first freestyle world champion in Michigan program history. A 2018 NCAA finalist, Micic is a three-time NCAA All-American and a Big Ten champion at 133 pounds for Michigan. A Serbian citizen on his father’s side, he was the country’s first ever freestyle wrestler to qualify for the Olympics in 2020.
Austin Gomez — Unseeded at 65kg freestyle, Gomez qualified through the Pan American Olympic Qualifier the first week in March, wedged between the end of the dual season and the Big Ten Championships. Down 12-8 to former Penn State NCAA champion Nick Lee with 1:31 left in the quarterfinals, he scored 14 unanswered points in less than a minute to end the bout with a 22-12 tech. He earned a 6-3 decision over North Carolina’s Lachlan McNeil in the semifinals to punch his ticket. Gomez, a two-time NCAA All-American, transferred to Michigan at the semester break and posted a 13-3 record last season with runner-up finishes at the Big Ten and NCAA Championships. He is a Mexican citizen on his father’s side and is one of two wrestlers representing the country in Paris.
Myles Amine — Amine is the No. 3 seed at 86kg freestyle. He became Michigan’s first freestyle Olympic medalist with an 86kg bronze finish in Tokyo and added his first world medal, with another bronze, at the World Championships last year. He has captured six consecutive European medals since 2019, including a gold medal at the 2022 championships. Amine was the first ever five-time All-American in NCAA wrestling history, reaching the 184-pound championship finals in his last appearance. He captured two Big Ten titles and, in 2022, shared the conference’s Most Outstanding Wrestler award — with Gomez, incidentally — when his overtime win over Penn State’s Aaron Brooks all but clinched the team title for Michigan. A dual citizen on his mother’s side, he was the first wrestler from San Marino to qualify for the Olympic Games in 2020 and became the country’s first ever male Olympic medalist.
Mason Parris — Parris is the No. 3 seed at 125kg freestyle. He swept Hayden Zillmer, 7-0, 7-0, in the U.S. Olympic Trials championship series after earning an automatic berth in the finals for winning world bronze in 2023. Previously a 2019 junior world champion, Parris has medaled in all six of his senior-level tournaments since graduating from Michigan in 2023. He claimed 125kg gold at back-to-back UWW Ranking Tournaments in Hungary as well as in pair of Pan American appearances and took bronze at the Zagreb Open in January. The 2023 NCAA heavyweight champion and Hodge Trophy winner, Parris went 33-0 in his final season to complete his collegiate career as a four-time All-American with a 124-18 career record.
Adam Coon — Coon is the No. 8 seed at 130kg Greco. He rallied to defeat Arizona State’s Cohlton Schultz, 0-1, 1-0, 6-1, in the best-of-three championship series at the U.S. Olympic Trials — following five consecutive losses to Schultz after returning from retirement in January 2023. He also defeated Schultz in the 2020 Olympic Trials but was unable to qualify the weight class for the Tokyo Games. He is a two-time U.S. world team member and captured world silver in 2018, pinning his way into the final with four straight falls before falling to Russia’s Sergey Semenov 9-0 in the gold-medal match. It was the first world medal for an American in Greco-Roman wrestling since 2015 and Coon was the first to reach the world finals since 2009. Coon captured 2011 Cadet freestyle gold and claimed double bronze in junior freestyle and Greco-Roman in 2014 before winning his senior-level silver. Coon was a three-time NCAA All-American at heavyweight for Michigan (2014-16, ’18).
