Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 74 kg

Men's freestyle 74 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on August 20 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

Men's freestyle 74 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Date	20 August 2008
Competitors	21 from 21 nations
Medalists
Buvaisar Saitiev  Russia Murad Gaidarov  Belarus Gheorghiță Ștefan  Romania Kiril Terziev  Bulgaria
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This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists faced off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who lost to one of the two finalists moved 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 consisted of up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scored more points in each round was the winner of that rounds; the bout finished when one wrestler had won two rounds (and thus the match).

Schedule

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

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

Results

Legend

• F — Won by fall

Final

	Final
	Soslan Tigiev (UZB)	1	0	1
	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	0	1	3

Top half

	Qualifications						1/8 finals						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Gela Saghirashvili (GEO)	1	2
							Augusto Midana (GBS)	0	1
													Gela Saghirashvili (GEO)	0	0
													Murad Gaidarov (BLR)	1	1
							Murad Gaidarov (BLR)	0	2	1
							Chamsulvara Chamsulvarayev (AZE)	4	0	0
																			Murad Gaidarov (BLR)	0	0
																			Soslan Tigiev (UZB)	1	1
							Gheorghiță Ștefan (ROU)	0	0
							Soslan Tigiev (UZB)	1	1
													Soslan Tigiev (UZB)	1	1
													Emzarios Bentinidis (GRE)	0	0
							Emzarios Bentinidis (GRE)	0	2	2
							Matt Gentry (CAN)	1	0	0

Bottom half

	Qualifications						1/8 finals						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Kiril Terziev (BUL)	3	3
							Meisam Mostafa-Jokar (IRI)	0	1
													Kiril Terziev (BUL)	6	9F
													Arsen Gitinov (KGZ)	6	1
							Ibragim Aldatov (UKR)	3	1	1
	Arsen Gitinov (KGZ)	1	3	1			Arsen Gitinov (KGZ)	0	2	2
	Krystian Brzozowski (POL)	1	1	0															Kiril Terziev (BUL)	0
	Ben Askren (USA)	0	4F																Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	8F
	István Veréb (HUN)	2	0				Ben Askren (USA)	1	0
	Siriguleng (CHN)	5	2				Iván Fundora (CUB)	3	4
	Iván Fundora (CUB)	7	4										Iván Fundora (CUB)	0	1
	Ali Abdo (AUS)	0	0										Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	2	2
	Ahmet Gülhan (TUR)	1	2				Ahmet Gülhan (TUR)	0	0
	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	1	7				Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	1	4
	Cho Byung-kwan (KOR)	0	2

Repechage

	Repechage round 1						Repechage round 2						Bronze medals
							Gheorghiță Ștefan (ROU)	0	1	1			Gheorghiță Ștefan (ROU)	1	1
							Emzarios Bentinidis (GRE)	3	0	0			Murad Gaidarov (BLR)	2	3
	Cho Byung-kwan (KOR)	1	0	2			Cho Byung-kwan (KOR)	0	0				Iván Fundora (CUB)	5	3
	Ahmet Gülhan (TUR)	0	2	1			Iván Fundora (CUB)	2	4				Kiril Terziev (BUL)	6	5F

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
	Murad Gaidarov (BLR)
	Gheorghiță Ștefan (ROU)
	Kiril Terziev (BUL)
5	Iván Fundora (CUB)
6	Ben Askren (USA)
7	Arsen Gitinov (KGZ)
8	Emzarios Bentinidis (GRE)
9	Ahmet Gülhan (TUR)
10	Cho Byung-kwan (KOR)
11	Gela Saghirashvili (GEO)
12	Siriguleng (CHN)
13	Ibragim Aldatov (UKR)
14	Chamsulvara Chamsulvarayev (AZE)
15	Krystian Brzozowski (POL)
16	Augusto Midana (GBS)
17	Matt Gentry (CAN)
18	Meisam Mostafa-Jokar (IRI)
19	István Veréb (HUN)
20	Ali Abdo (AUS)
DQ	Soslan Tigiev (UZB)

• Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan originally won the silver medal, but he was disqualified in November 2016 after a retest of his sample tested positive for anabolic steroids.^[1][2]