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Welterweight, Freestyle (≤66 kilograms), Men

Date20 August 2008
StatusOlympic
LocationZhongguo Nongye Daxue Tiyuguan, Beijing
Participants21 from 21 countries
FormatSingle elimination tournament. Competitors losing to the finalists entered repechage tournament for bronze medals.

Turkey’s Ramazan Şahin was favored, having won the 2007 World and 2008 European Championships. In the 2007 World final, he had beaten Cuban Geandry Garzón and, because FILA does not seed the wrestlers, they met in the first round, with Şahin winning again. He then defeated two-time junior world champion Mehdi Taghavi of Iran and 2006 World silver medalist Otar Tushishvili of Georgia. The final matched Şahin against Ukraine’s Andriy Stadnik and was extremely close, going three periods, with the final period resulting in a 2-2 tie, but Şahin won the gold medal on officials’ decision. Tushishvili shared the bronze medals with Indian Sushil Kumar, who would come back at London in 2012 and win the silver medal. Stadnik’s wife, Mariya, had won a bronze medal in women’s flyweight four days earlier, and would improve to a silver at London in 2012, both times representing Azerbaijan

PosWrestlerNOC
1Ramazan ŞahinTURGold
2Andriy StadnikUKRSilver
=3Otar TushishviliGEOBronze
=3Sushil KumarINDBronze
=5Geandry GarzónCUB
=5Leonid SpiridonovKAZ
7Irbek FarniyevRUS
8Buyanjavyn BatzorigMGL
9Albert BatyrauBLR
10Mehdi TaghaviIRI
11Serafim BarzakovBUL
12Emin ƏzizovAZE
13Kazuhiko IkematsuJPN
14Doug SchwabUSA
15Yang Chun-SongPRK
16Haislan GarciaCAN
17Jeong Yeong-HoKOR
18Suren MarkosyanARM
19Heinrich BarnesRSA
20Wang QiangCHN
21Grégory SarrasinSUI

Round One (20 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to round two. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round one.

Match #1 Ramazan ŞahinTUR
Match #2 Geandry GarzónCUB
Match #3 Mehdi TaghaviIRI
Match #4 Haislan GarciaCAN
Match #5 Kazuhiko IkematsuJPN
Match #6 Otar TushishviliGEO
Match #7 Jeong Yeong-HoKOR
Match #8 Serafim BarzakovBUL
Match #9 Albert BatyrauBLR
Match #10 Yang Chun-SongPRK
Match #11 Sushil KumarIND
Match #12 Andriy StadnikUKR Doug SchwabUSA
Match #13 Buyanjavyn BatzorigMGL Heinrich BarnesRSA
Match #14 Irbek FarniyevRUS Suren MarkosyanARM
Match #15 Leonid SpiridonovKAZ Wang QiangCHN
Match #16 Emin ƏzizovAZE Grégory SarrasinSUI

Round Two (20 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to quarter-finals. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round one.

Match #1 Ramazan ŞahinTUR Geandry GarzónCUB
Match #2 Mehdi TaghaviIRI Haislan GarciaCAN
Match #3 Otar TushishviliGEO Kazuhiko IkematsuJPN
Match #4 Serafim BarzakovBUL Jeong Yeong-HoKOR
Match #5 Albert BatyrauBLR Yang Chun-SongPRK
Match #6 Andriy StadnikUKR Sushil KumarIND
Match #7 Irbek FarniyevRUS Buyanjavyn BatzorigMGL
Match #8 Leonid SpiridonovKAZ Emin ƏzizovAZE

Quarter-finals (20 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to semi-finals. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round two.

Match #1 Ramazan ŞahinTUR Mehdi TaghaviIRI
Match #2 Otar TushishviliGEO Serafim BarzakovBUL
Match #3 Andriy StadnikUKR Albert BatyrauBLR
Match #4 Leonid SpiridonovKAZ Irbek FarniyevRUS

Semi-finals (20 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to final. Losers advanced to repêchage final.

Match #1 Ramazan ŞahinTUR Otar TushishviliGEO
Match #2 Andriy StadnikUKR Leonid SpiridonovKAZ

Repêchage Round One (20 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to repêchage round two.

Match #1 Geandry GarzónCUB
Match #2 Sushil KumarIND Doug SchwabUSA

Repêchage Round Two (20 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to repêchage final.

Match #1 Geandry GarzónCUB Mehdi TaghaviIRI
Match #2 Sushil KumarIND Albert BatyrauBLR

Repêchage Final (20 August 2008)

Match #1 Otar TushishviliGEO Geandry GarzónCUB
Match #2 Sushil KumarIND Leonid SpiridonovKAZ

Final (20 August 2008)

Match 1/2 Ramazan ŞahinTUR Andriy StadnikUKR