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

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

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

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).

1 Medalists
2 Tournament results
- 2.1 Main bracket
- 2.2 Repechage

Medalists

Gold	Buvaisar Saitiev Russia (RUS)
Silver	Soslan Tigiev Uzbekistan (UZB)
Bronze	Murad Gaidarov Belarus (BLR)
Bronze	Kiril Terziev Bulgaria (BUL)

Tournament results

Main bracket

Final

Final

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

Top Half

Round of 32	Round of 16				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
	Gheorghiţă Ştefan (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

Round of 32				Round of 16				Quarterfinals			Semifinals


				Kiril Terziev (BUL)	3	3
				Meisam Mostafa-Jokar (IRI)	0	1
								Kiril Terziev (BUL)	6	F
								Arsen Gitinov (KGZ)	6
				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)
Ben Askren (USA)	0	F									Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	F
István Veréb (HUN)	2			Ben Askren (USA)	1	0
Si Riguleng (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