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Light-Heavyweight, Freestyle (≤84 kilograms), Men

Date21 August 2008
StatusOlympic
LocationZhongguo Nongye Daxue Tiyuguan, Beijing
Participants20 from 20 countries
FormatSingle elimination tournament. Competitors losing to the finalists entered repechage tournament for bronze medals.

The top match in this division came in the semi-finals, pitting Georgian Revaz Mindorashvili, the 2005 World Champion, against Russian Georgy Ketoyev, the reigning World Champion. Mindorashvili won the first period and then won the match in the second period by throwing Ketoyev. In the final Russian-born Tajiki Yusuf Abdusalomov, silver medalist at the 2007 Worlds, won the first period, but Mindorashvili came back to shut-out Abdusalomov in the final two periods and win the gold medal.

PosWrestlerNOC
1Revaz MindorashviliGEOGold
2Yusup AbdusalomovTJKSilver
=3Taras DankoUKRBronze
=3Georgy KetoyevRUSBronze
=5Serhat BalcıTUR
=5Davyd BichinashviliGER
7Novruz TemrezovAZE
8Harutyun YenokyanARM
9Zaurbek SokhiyevUZB
10Reineris SalasCUB
11Reza YazdaniIRI
12Andy HrovatUSA
13Gennady LaliyevKAZ
14Wang YingCHN
15Travis CrossCAN
16Radosław HorbikPOL
17Chagnaadorjiin GanzorigMGL
18Adnan RhimiTUN
19Jarlis MosqueraCOL
20Sandeep KumarAUS

Round One (21 August 2008)

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

Match #1 Andy HrovatUSA
Match #2 Reineris SalasCUB
Match #3 Serhat BalcıTUR
Match #4 Travis CrossCAN
Match #5 Jarlis MosqueraCOL
Match #6 Taras DankoUKR
Match #7 Sandeep KumarAUS
Match #8 Yusup AbdusalomovTJK
Match #9 Adnan RhimiTUN
Match #10 Harutyun YenokyanARM
Match #11 Revaz MindorashviliGEO
Match #12 Davyd BichinashviliGER
Match #13 Reza YazdaniIRI Radosław HorbikPOL
Match #14 Novruz TemrezovAZE Chagnaadorjiin GanzorigMGL
Match #15 Georgy KetoyevRUS Wang YingCHN
Match #16 Zaurbek SokhiyevUZB Gennady LaliyevKAZ

Round Two (21 August 2008)

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

Match #1 Reineris SalasCUB Andy HrovatUSA
Match #2 Serhat BalcıTUR Travis CrossCAN
Match #3 Taras DankoUKR Jarlis MosqueraCOL
Match #4 Yusup AbdusalomovTJK Sandeep KumarAUS
Match #5 Harutyun YenokyanARM Adnan RhimiTUN
Match #6 Revaz MindorashviliGEO Davyd BichinashviliGER
Match #7 Novruz TemrezovAZE Reza YazdaniIRI
Match #8 Georgy KetoyevRUS Zaurbek SokhiyevUZB

Quarter-finals (21 August 2008)

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

Match #1 Serhat BalcıTUR Reineris SalasCUB
Match #2 Yusup AbdusalomovTJK Taras DankoUKR
Match #3 Revaz MindorashviliGEO Harutyun YenokyanARM
Match #4 Georgy KetoyevRUS Novruz TemrezovAZE

Semi-finals (21 August 2008)

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

Match #1 Yusup AbdusalomovTJK Serhat BalcıTUR
Match #2 Revaz MindorashviliGEO Georgy KetoyevRUS

Repêchage Round One (21 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to repêchage round two.

Match #1 Sandeep KumarAUS
Match #2 Davyd BichinashviliGER

Repêchage Round Two (21 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to repêchage final.

Match #1 Taras DankoUKR Sandeep KumarAUS
Match #2 Davyd BichinashviliGER Harutyun YenokyanARM

Repêchage Final (21 August 2008)

Match #1 Taras DankoUKR Serhat BalcıTUR
Match #2 Georgy KetoyevRUS Davyd BichinashviliGER

Final (21 August 2008)

Match 1/2 Revaz MindorashviliGEO Yusup AbdusalomovTJK