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

Men's freestyle 96 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, took place on 21 August at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

Men's freestyle 96 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Date	21 August 2008
Competitors	19 from 19 nations
Medalists
Shirvani Muradov  Russia Giorgi Gogshelidze  Georgia Michel Batista  Cuba Khetag Gazyumov  Azerbaijan

Main article: Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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).

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
21 August 2008	09:30	Qualification rounds
	16:00	Repechage
	17:00	Finals

Results

Legend

• F — Won by fall
• WO — Won by walkover

Final

	Final
	Taimuraz Tigiyev (KAZ)	0	0
	Shirvani Muradov (RUS)	1	1

Top half

	Qualifications						1/8 finals						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Saleh Emara (EGY)	3	2
							Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)	4	2
													Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)	0	0
													Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	3	1
							Aleksey Krupnyakov (KGZ)	0	0
							Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	1
																			Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	1	0
																			Taimuraz Tigiyev (KAZ)	1	0	2
							Luis Vivenes (VEN)	0	0
							Taimuraz Tigiyev (KAZ)	6	3
													Taimuraz Tigiyev (KAZ)	2	1
													Michel Batista (CUB)	0	0
							Michel Batista (CUB)	W	O
							Daniel Cormier (USA)

Bottom half

	Qualifications						1/8 finals						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Stefan Kehrer (GER)	0	1
							Hakan Koç (TUR)	1	1
													Hakan Koç (TUR)	0	0
													Shirvani Muradov (RUS)	1	2
							Georgii Tibilov (UKR)	1	0	0
							Shirvani Muradov (RUS)	0	1	1
																			Shirvani Muradov (RUS)	0	2	1
																			Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	1	0	0
							Vincent Aka-Akesse (FRA)	0	0
	Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	3	3				Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	4	4
	Mateusz Gucman (POL)	0	0										Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	4	6
	Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)	3	1										Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)	0	0
	David Zilberman (CAN)	1	0				Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)	1	3	5
	Gergely Kiss (HUN)	5	5				Gergely Kiss (HUN)	1	0	4
	Nicolae Ceban (MDA)	3	0

Repechage

	Repechage round 2						Bronze medals
	Luis Vivenes (VEN)	1	0				Michel Batista (CUB)	0	0
	Michel Batista (CUB)	1	2				Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	4F
	Georgii Tibilov (UKR)	1	3				Georgii Tibilov (UKR)	0	0
	Hakan Koç (TUR)	0	1				Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	5	2

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Shirvani Muradov (RUS)
	Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)
	Michel Batista (CUB)
	Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)
5	Georgii Tibilov (UKR)
6	Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)
7	Gergely Kiss (HUN)
8	Hakan Koç (TUR)
9	Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)
10	Saleh Emara (EGY)
11	Nicolae Ceban (MDA)
12	Stefan Kehrer (GER)
13	David Zilberman (CAN)
14	Luis Vivenes (VEN)
15	Aleksey Krupnyakov (KGZ)
16	Mateusz Gucman (POL)
17	Vincent Aka-Akesse (FRA)
18	Daniel Cormier (USA)
DQ	Taimuraz Tigiyev (KAZ)

• Taimuraz Tigiyev of Kazakhstan originally won the silver medal, but in November 2016, it was announced that he tested positive for Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone.