2023 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 61 kg

Men's freestyle 61 kg
at the 2023 World Championships

Venue

Dates

16–17 September 2023

Competitors

27 from 24 nations

Medalists

	Vito Arujau	United States
	Abasgadzhi Magomedov
	Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu	Kyrgyzstan
	Shota Phartenadze	Georgia

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	Freestyle	Greco-Roman	Women
	57 kg	55 kg	50 kg
	61 kg	60 kg	53 kg
	65 kg	63 kg	55 kg
	70 kg	67 kg	57 kg
	74 kg	72 kg	59 kg
	79 kg	77 kg	62 kg
	86 kg	82 kg	65 kg
	92 kg	87 kg	68 kg
	97 kg	97 kg	72 kg
	125 kg	130 kg	76 kg
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The men's freestyle 61 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Belgrade, Serbia on 16 and 17 September 2023.^[1]

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.

Results

Legend

F — Won by fall
WO — Won by walkover

Final

	Final

	Vito Arujau (USA)	10
	Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	9

Top half

Round of 32		Round of 16		Quarterfinals		Semifinals

		Reza Atri (IRI)	1
Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	10	Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	1
Daniel Popov (ISR)	0			Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	2
Stilyan Iliev (BUL)	6			Vito Arujau (USA)	8
Nils Leutert (SUI)	2	Stilyan Iliev (BUL)	0
Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ)	0	Vito Arujau (USA)	10
Vito Arujau (USA)	10					Vito Arujau (USA)	12
						Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)	2
		Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR)	8
Joey Silva (PUR)	3	Joey Silva (PUR)	0
Besir Alili (MKD)	2			Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR)	2
Song Hyeon-sik (KOR)	2			Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)	4
Intigam Valizada (AZE)	5	Intigam Valizada (AZE)	0
		Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)	5^F

Bottom half

Round of 32		Round of 16		Quarterfinals		Semifinals

		Shota Phartenadze (GEO)	5
Norik Harutyunyan (ARM)	0	Andrei Bekreneu (AIN)	0
Andrei Bekreneu (AIN)	5			Shota Phartenadze (GEO)	5
Leonid Colesnic (MDA)	5			Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB)	3
Akash Dahiya (UWW)	10	Akash Dahiya (UWW)	4
~~Nick Lattanze (CAN)~~		Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB)	7^F
Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB)	WO					Shota Phartenadze (GEO)	0
Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU)	0					Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	10
Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	10	Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	12
Li Weiyu (CHN)	11	Li Weiyu (CHN)	0
Abdelhak Kherbache (ALG)	0			Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	16^F
Kenneth Koech (KEN)	0			Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	4
Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	10	Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	12
		Narmandakhyn Narankhüü (MGL)	8

Repechage


Repechage round 1		Repechage round 2		Bronze medals


Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ)	10	Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ)	3	Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	1

Stilyan Iliev (BUL)	0	Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	3	Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)	2


Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU)	0	Li Weiyu (CHN)	0	Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	5

Li Weiyu (CHN)	11	Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	4^F	Shota Phartenadze (GEO)	5

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Vito Arujau (USA)
	Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)
	Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)
	Shota Phartenadze (GEO)
5	Kodai Ogawa (JPN)
5	Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)
7	Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB)
8	Li Weiyu (CHN)
9	Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ)
10	Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR)
11	Akash Dahiya (UWW)
12	Stilyan Iliev (BUL)
13	Andrei Bekreneu (AIN)
14	Intigam Valizada (AZE)
15	Joey Silva (PUR)
16	Narmandakhyn Narankhüü (MGL)
17	Leonid Colesnic (MDA)
18	Besir Alili (MKD)
19	Song Hyeon-sik (KOR)
20	Nils Leutert (SUI)
21	Reza Atri (IRI)
22	Norik Harutyunyan (ARM)
23	Daniel Popov (ISR)
24	Kenneth Koech (KEN)
25	Abdelhak Kherbache (ALG)
26	Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU)
—	Nick Lattanze (CAN)