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

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

Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Men
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman
	55 kg	55 kg
	60 kg	60 kg
	66 kg	66 kg
	74 kg	74 kg
	84 kg	84 kg
	96 kg	96 kg
	120 kg	120 kg
Women
	48 kg	63 kg
	55 kg	72 kg

Men's freestyle 96 kg competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, took place on 21 August 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).

Schedule

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

Results

Legend

• F — Won by fall
• W — 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
								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 medal bout
	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)
DSQ	Taimuraz Tigiyev (KAZ)
	Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)
	Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)
	Michel Batista (CUB)
5	Georgii Tibilov (UKR)
7	Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)
8	Gergely Kiss (HUN)
9	Hakan Koç (TUR)
10	Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)
11	Saleh Emara (EGY)
12	Nicolae Ceban (MDA)
13	Stefan Kehrer (GER)
14	David Zilberman (CAN)
15	Luis Vivenes (VEN)
16	Aleksey Krupnyakov (KGZ)
17	Mateusz Gucman (POL)
18	Vincent Aka-Akesse (FRA)
19	Daniel Cormier (USA)

• Taimuraz Tigiyev of Kazakhstan originally finished second, but in November 2016, it was announced that he tested positive dopint-test.^[1]

The medals were reawarded by FILA following this decision^[2]

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