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Super-Heavyweight, Greco-Roman (≤120 kg), Men

Date14 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 last three World Championships had been won by Cuba’s Mijaín López (2005 / 2007) and Russian Khasan Baroyev (2006), who was also the defending Olympic Champion. As expected they met in the final in Beijing, with López winning the gold medal in straight periods. López would return to defend his gold medal at London in 2012, and also won the Worlds in 2009-10, and in 2011 would win his third straight gold medal at the Pan American Games. The bronze medals went to Lithuania’s Mindaugas Mizgaitis and Armenia’s Yury Patrikeyev. Patrikeyev was actually Russian and had been 2002 and 2004 European Champion, but was bypassed for the 2004 Olympics in favor of Baroyev, so Patrikeyev left the Russian team and started competing for Armenia in 2005.

That was how the event and the results seemed to have ended. In 2015, however, the IOC began re-testing samples from the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics, using newer, more advanced testing techniques, in an effort to find those who had used performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), but in whom it could not be detected at the time of those Olympics. This was one of the many events affected.

In November 2016, Khasan Baroyev (RUS) was revealed to have a positive test for turinabol (dehydrochloromethyltestosterone), and was disqualified, losing his silver medal. Mindaugas Mizgaitis of Lithuania was advanced to the silver medal, and Yannick Szczepaniak of France was advanced to the bronze medal.

PosNumberCompetitorNOC
112Mijaín LópezCUBGold
28Mindaugas MizgaitisLTUSilver
=310Yury PatrikeyevARMBronze
=33Yannick SzczepaniakFRABronze
513Jalmar SjöbergSWE
618Dremiel ByersUSA
71Mihály Deák-BárdosHUN
820Liu DeliCHN
916Anton BotevAZE
1011Siarhei ArtsiukhinBLR
1114Marek MikulskiPOL
124Ivan IvanovBUL
1315David SaldadzeUZB
146Masoud HashemzadehIRI
152Ari TaubCAN
1617Oleksandr ChernetskyiUKR
1719Panagiotis PapadopoulosGRE
189Yasser Abdel Rahman SakrEGY
197Rıza KayaalpTUR
DQ5Khasan BaroyevRUS1

Round One

Date14 August 2008
FormatWinner of each match advanced to round two. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round one.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #114 AugMihály Deák-BárdosHUN
Match #214 AugAri TaubCAN
Match #314 AugYannick SzczepaniakFRA
Match #414 AugIvan IvanovBUL
Match #514 AugKhasan BaroyevRUS
Match #614 AugMasoud HashemzadehIRI
Match #714 AugRıza KayaalpTUR
Match #814 AugMindaugas MizgaitisLTU
Match #914 AugYasser Abdel Rahman SakrEGY
Match #1014 AugYury PatrikeyevARM
Match #1114 AugSiarhei ArtsiukhinBLR
Match #1214 AugMijaín LópezCUB
Match #1314 Aug 9:27Jalmar SjöbergSWEDecisionMarek MikulskiPOL
Match #1414 Aug 9:41Anton BotevAZEDecisionDavid SaldadzeUZB
Match #1514 Aug 9:55Dremiel ByersUSADecisionOleksandr ChernetskyiUKR
Match #1614 Aug 10:06Liu DeliCHNDecisionPanagiotis PapadopoulosGRE

Round Two

Date14 August 2008
FormatWinner of each match advanced to quarter-finals. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round one.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #114 Aug 10:15Mihály Deák-BárdosHUNDecisionAri TaubCAN
Match #214 Aug 10:24Yannick SzczepaniakFRADecisionIvan IvanovBUL
Match #314 Aug 10:39Masoud HashemzadehIRIKhasan BaroyevRUS
Match #414 Aug 11:00Mindaugas MizgaitisLTUFallRıza KayaalpTUR
Match #514 Aug 11:00Yury PatrikeyevARMDecisionYasser Abdel Rahman SakrEGY
Match #614 Aug 11:08Mijaín LópezCUBDecisionSiarhei ArtsiukhinBLR
Match #714 Aug 11:16Jalmar SjöbergSWEShutout decisionAnton BotevAZE
Match #814 Aug 11:24Dremiel ByersUSADecisionLiu DeliCHN

Quarter-Finals

Date14 August 2008
FormatWinner of each match advanced to semi-finals. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round two.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #114 Aug 11:38Yannick SzczepaniakFRADecisionMihály Deák-BárdosHUN
Match #214 Aug 11:50Mindaugas MizgaitisLTUKhasan BaroyevRUS
Match #314 Aug 11:59Mijaín LópezCUBFallYury PatrikeyevARM
Match #414 Aug 12:06Jalmar SjöbergSWEDecisionDremiel ByersUSA

Semi-Finals

Date14 August 2008
FormatWinner of each match advanced to final. Losers advanced to repêchage final.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #114 Aug 12:19Yannick SzczepaniakFRAKhasan BaroyevRUS
Match #214 Aug 12:29Mijaín LópezCUBShutout decisionJalmar SjöbergSWE

Repêchage Round One

Date14 August 2008
FormatWinner of each match advanced to repêchage round two.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #114 AugMasoud HashemzadehIRI
Match #214 AugSiarhei ArtsiukhinBLR

Repêchage Round Two

Date14 August 2008
FormatWinner of each match advanced to repêchage final.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #114 Aug 16:15Mindaugas MizgaitisLTUDecisionMasoud HashemzadehIRI
Match #214 Aug 17:07Yury PatrikeyevARMDecisionSiarhei ArtsiukhinBLR

Repêchage Final

Date14 August 2008
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match #114 Aug 18:54Mindaugas MizgaitisLTUDecisionYannick SzczepaniakFRA
Match #214 Aug 19:03Yury PatrikeyevARMDecisionJalmar SjöbergSWE

Final

Date14 August 2008 — 19:17
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorNOCResultCompetitorNOC
Match 1/214 AugMijaín LópezCUBDecisionKhasan BaroyevRUS