Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 55 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 55 kg competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on August 19 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winners 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
3 References

Medalists

Gold	Henry Cejudo United States (USA)
Silver	Tomohiro Matsunaga Japan (JPN)
Bronze	Radoslav Velikov Bulgaria (BUL)
Bronze	Besik Kudukhov Russia (RUS)

Tournament results

Main bracket

The gold and silver medalists are determined by the final match of the main single-elimination bracket.

Final

Final

Henry Cejudo (USA)	2	3
Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	2	0

Top Half

Round of 32	Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals


	Yang Kyong-Il (PRK)	1	1	1
	Namig Sevdimov (AZE)	1	3	2
					Namig Sevdimov (AZE)	1	1	2
					Kim Hyo-Sub (KOR)	2	0	0
	Kim Hyo-Sub (KOR)	3	3
	Francisco Sánchez (ESP)	1	1
									Namig Sevdimov (AZE)	5	2	3
									Henry Cejudo (USA)	3	3	4
	Henry Cejudo (USA)	0	3	4
	Radoslav Velikov (BUL)	1	2	3
					Henry Cejudo (USA)	1	3	3
					Besarion Gochashvili (GEO)	3	2	0
	Petru Toarcă (ROU)	0	0
	Besarion Gochashvili (GEO)	3	3

Bottom Half

Round of 32			Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals


			Abbas Dabbaghi (IRI)	1	1	5
			Fredy Serrano (COL)	0	1	1
							Abbas Dabbaghi (IRI)	0	0
							Besik Kudukhov (RUS)	6	1
			Bayaraagiin Naranbaatar (MGL)	0	0
			Besik Kudukhov (RUS)	1	1
											Besik Kudukhov (RUS)	0
											Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	3	F
			Sezar Akgül (TUR)	0	0
Adama Diatta (SEN)	0		Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	5	3
Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	1	F					Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	2	0	2
Maikel Pérez (CUB)	0	0					Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)	1	1	1
Rizvan Gadzhiev (BLR)	7	6	Rizvan Gadzhiev (BLR)	1	0	0
Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)	1	1	Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)	0	1	1
Zhassulan Mukhtarbekuly (KAZ)	0	0

Repechage

Repechage Round 1

Repechage round 2

Bronze Medal Bout

Namig Sevdimov (AZE)

2 1 0

Radoslav Velikov (BUL)

0 3 1

Besarion Gochashvili (GEO)

0 1

Radoslav Velikov (BUL)