The men's freestyle 79 kg is a competition featured at the 2022 U23 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Pontevedra, Spain on 21 and 22 October 2022.[1][2] The qualification rounds were held on 20 October while medal matches were held on the 2nd day of the competition. A total of 22 wrestlers competed in this event, limited to athletes whose body weight was less than 79 kilograms.
| Men's freestyle 79 kg at the 2022 U23 World Championships | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 21–22 October | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 22 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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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 edit
- Legend
- F — Won by fall
- WO — Won by walkover
Final edit
| Final | |||
 Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO)
| 5 | ||
 Daulet Yergesh (KAZ)
| 3 | ||
Top half edit
| Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | ||||||||||||
 Ilan Bondar (ISR)
| WO | ||||||||||||||
 Mohammad Nokhodi (IRI) | |||||||||||||||
| Ilan Bondar (ISR)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO)
| 14 | Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO)
| 4F | ||||||||||||
 Tanguy Darbellay (SUI)
| 7 | Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO)
| 7 | ||||||||||||
 Arman Avagyan (ARM)
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO)
| 9 | ||||||||||||||
 Georgios Kougioumtsidis (GRE)
| 6 | ||||||||||||||
 Gabriel Iglesias (ESP)
| 2 | ||||||||||||||
 Adam Thomson (CAN)
| 14 | Adam Thomson (CAN)
| 5 | ||||||||||||
 Miguel Ornelas (MEX)
| 3 | Adam Thomson (CAN)
| 0 | ||||||||||||
| Georgios Kougioumtsidis (GRE)
| 10 | Georgios Kougioumtsidis (GRE)
| 12 | ||||||||||||
 Zsombor Nagy (HUN)
| 0 | Georgios Kougioumtsidis (GRE)
| 4F | ||||||||||||
 Rasindu Pedige (SRI)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
Bottom half edit
| Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | ||||||||||||
 Erik Reinbok (EST)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
 Oktay Hasan (BUL)
| 0 |  Carter Starocci (USA)
| 10 | ||||||||||||
| Carter Starocci (USA)
| 11 | Carter Starocci (USA)
| 11 | ||||||||||||
 Ernest Dorosz (POL)
| 0 |  Abdulvasi Balta (TUR)
| 1 | ||||||||||||
| Abdulvasi Balta (TUR)
| 10 | Abdulvasi Balta (TUR)
| 4 | ||||||||||||
 Stanislav Novac (MDA)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Carter Starocci (USA)
| 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Daulet Yergesh (KAZ)
| 8 | ||||||||||||||
 Valentyn Babii (UKR)
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
 Ashraf Ashirov (AZE)
| 10 |  Kousuke Yamakura (JPN)
| 4 | ||||||||||||
| Kousuke Yamakura (JPN)
| 11 | Valentyn Babii (UKR)
| 1 | ||||||||||||
| Daulet Yergesh (KAZ)
| 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Daulet Yergesh (KAZ)
| 10 | ||||||||||||||
 Tony Negron (PUR)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
Repechage edit
| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | ||||||||
| Tanguy Darbellay (SUI) | 0 | Arman Avagyan (ARM) | 10 | Arman Avagyan (ARM) | 6 | |||||
| Arman Avagyan (ARM) | 7 | Ilan Bondar (ISR) | 0 | Georgios Kougioumtsidis (GRE) | 4 | |||||
| Tony Negron (PUR) | 4 | Valentyn Babii (UKR) | 0 | |||||||
| Valentyn Babii (UKR) | 7 | Carter Starocci (USA) | 11 | |||||||
Final standing edit
| Rank | Athlete |
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Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO)
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Daulet Yergesh (KAZ)
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Arman Avagyan (ARM)
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Carter Starocci (USA)
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| 5 | Georgios Kougioumtsidis (GRE)
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| 5 | Valentyn Babii (UKR)
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| 7 | Abdulvasi Balta (TUR)
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| 8 | Adam Thomson (CAN)
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| 9 | Ilan Bondar (ISR)
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| 10 | Kousuke Yamakura (JPN)
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| 11 | Ashraf Ashirov (AZE)
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| 12 | Tanguy Darbellay (SUI)
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| 13 | Tony Negron (PUR)
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| 14 | Miguel Ornelas (MEX)
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| 15 | Gabriel Iglesias (ESP)
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| 16 | Rasindu Pedige (SRI)
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| 17 | Stanislav Novac (MDA)
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| 18 | Zsombor Nagy (HUN)
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| 19 | Erik Reinbok (EST)
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| 20 | Ernest Dorosz (POL)
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| 21 | Oktay Hasan (BUL)
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| — | Mohammad Nokhodi (IRI)
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References edit
- ^ "World Championships | United World Wrestling". uww.org. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ "79kg Bracket Results". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 20 October 2022.