Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 96 kg

Men's Freestyle 96 kg competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, will be held at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists face off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who loses to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket.

Each bout consists of up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scores more points in each round is the winner of that rounds; the bout ends when one wrestler has won two rounds (and thus the match).

Tournament results

Main bracket

Final

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Top Half

Round of 32	Round of 16			Quarterfinals	Semifinals

	Saleh Emara (EGY)	3	1
	Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)	4	2
				Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)
				Georgi Gogshelidze (GEO)
	Aleksey Krupnyakov (KGZ)	0	0
	Georgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	1


	Luis Vivenez (VEN)	0	0
	Taimuraz Tigiyev (KAZ)	6	3
				Taimuraz Tigiyev (KAZ)
				Michel Batista (CUB)
	Michel Batista (CUB)	w/o
	Daniel Cormier (USA)

Bottom Half

Round of 32			Round of 16				Quarterfinals	Semifinals

			Stefan Kehrer (GER)	0	1
			Hakan Koç (TUR)	1	1
							Hakan Koç (TUR)
							Shirvani Muradov (RUS)
			Georgii Tibilov (UKR)	1	0	0
			Shirvani Muradov (RUS)	0	1	1

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			Akesse Vincent Aka (FRA)	0	0
Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	3	3	Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	4	4
Mateusz Gucman (POL)	0	0					Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)
Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)	3	1					Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)
David Zilberman (CAN)	1	0	Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)	1	3	5
Gergely Kiss (HUN)	5	5	Gergely Kiss (HUN)	1	0	4
Nicolai Ceban (MDA)	3	0