Canada at The 2008 Summer Olympics - Wrestling

Wrestling

Seven athletes qualified at the 2008 Pan-American Wrestling Championships while Travis Cross and Carol Huynh qualified by finishing in the top 8 at the 2007 Wrestling World Championships and David Zilberman qualified at the first freestyle qualification tournament.

Men's freestyle
Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Final / BM
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
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Result		 Rank
Saeed Azarbayjani −60 kg Berberyan (ARM)
W 3–0 PO		 Mohammadi (IRI)
L 0–3 PO		 Did not advance 10
Haislan Garcia −66 kg Taghavi (IRI)
L 1–3 PP		 Did not advance 16
Matt Gentry −74 kg Bentinidis (GRE)
L 1–3 PP		 Did not advance 18
Travis Cross −84 kg Balcı (TUR)
L 1–3 PP		 Did not advance 15
David Zilberman −96 kg Kurbanov (UZB)
L 1–3 PP		 Did not advance 14
Men's Greco-Roman
Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Final / BM
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Ari Taub −120 kg Deák-Bárdos (HUN)
L 1–3 PP		 Did not advance 16
Women's freestyle
Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Final / BM
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Carol Huynh −48 kg Stadnik (AZE)
W 3–1 PP		 Kim H-J (KOR)
W 3–1 PP		 Bakatyuk (KAZ)
W 3–1 PP		 C Icho (JPN)
W 3–1 PP		 01 !
Tonya Verbeek −55 kg Naidangiin (MGL)
W 3–0 PO		 Cristea (MDA)
W 3–1 PP		 Yoshida (JPN)
L 0–3 PO		 Nerell (SWE)
W 3–0 PO		 03 !
Martine Dugrenier −63 kg Sastin (HUN)
W 3–0 PO		 Xu Hy (CHN)
W 3–1 PP		 K Icho (JPN)
L 1–3 PP		 Miller (USA)
L 1–3 PP		 5
Ohenewa Akuffo −72 kg Zlateva (BUL)
L 0–5 VT		 Did not advance Unda (ESP)
L 1–3 PP		 Did not advance 10

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