The men's freestyle 97 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 15 wrestlers competed in this event, limited to athletes whose body weight was less than 97 kilograms.
| Men's freestyle 97 kg at the 2022 U23 World Championships | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Pontevedra Municipal Sports Hall | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 21–22 October | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 15 from 15 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
Main bracket
edit| Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
 Andro Margishvili (GEO)
| 3 | ||||||||||||||
 Mücahit Çelik (TUR)
| 2 |  Tanner Sloan (USA)
| 6 | ||||||||||||
| Tanner Sloan (USA)
| 10 | Tanner Sloan (USA)
| 10 | ||||||||||||
 Yunus Gafurov (KAZ)
| 12 |  Islam Ilyasov (AZE)
| 2 | ||||||||||||
 Thomas Barns (AUS)
| 2 | Yunus Gafurov (KAZ)
| 0 | ||||||||||||
 Şatlyk Hemeläýew (TKM)
| 0 | Islam Ilyasov (AZE)
| 4 | ||||||||||||
| Islam Ilyasov (AZE)
| 10 | Tanner Sloan (USA)
| 3 | ||||||||||||
 Radu Lefter (MDA)
| 6 |  Amir Ali Azarpira (IRI)
| 5 | ||||||||||||
 Richárd Végh (HUN)
| 8 | Richárd Végh (HUN)
| 0 | ||||||||||||
 Vasyl Sova (UKR)
| 2 | Amir Ali Azarpira (IRI)
| 10 | ||||||||||||
| Amir Ali Azarpira (IRI)
| 12 | Amir Ali Azarpira (IRI)
| 8 | ||||||||||||
 Hibiki Ito (JPN)
| 4 |  Ertuğrul Ağca (GER)
| 0 | ||||||||||||
| Ertuğrul Ağca (GER)
| 5 | Ertuğrul Ağca (GER)
| 10 | ||||||||||||
 Hovhannes Maghakyan (ARM)
| 10 | Hovhannes Maghakyan (ARM)
| 0 | ||||||||||||
 Callum Knox (CAN)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
Repechage
edit| Repechage round 1 | Bronze medals | |||||
| Mücahit Çelik (TUR) | 0 | Andro Margishvili (GEO) | 0 | |||
| Andro Margishvili (GEO) | 10 | Islam Ilyasov (AZE) | 7 | |||
| Vasyl Sova (UKR) | 10 | Vasyl Sova (UKR) | 5 | |||
| Richárd Végh (HUN) | 0 | Ertuğrul Ağca (GER) | 2 | |||
Final standing
edit| Rank | Athlete |
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Amir Ali Azarpira (IRI)
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Tanner Sloan (USA)
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Islam Ilyasov (AZE)
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Vasyl Sova (UKR)
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| 5 | Andro Margishvili (GEO)
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| 5 | Ertuğrul Ağca (GER)
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| 7 | Yunus Gafurov (KAZ)
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| 8 | Hovhannes Maghakyan (ARM)
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| 9 | Richárd Végh (HUN)
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| 10 | Radu Lefter (MDA)
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| 11 | Hibiki Ito (JPN)
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| 12 | Thomas Barns (AUS)
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| 13 | Mücahit Çelik (TUR)
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| 14 | Şatlyk Hemeläýew (TKM)
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| 15 | Callum Knox (CAN)
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References
edit- ^ "World Championships | United World Wrestling". uww.org. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ "97kg Bracket Results". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 20 October 2022.