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
Competitors	21 from 21 nations
Medalists
Buvaisar Saitiev  Russia Murad Gaidarov  Belarus Gheorghiță Ștefan  Romania Kiril Terziev  Bulgaria

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

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).