2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 79 kg

Wrestling competitions

Men's freestyle 79 kg
at the 2024 U23 World Championships

Venue

Tirana Olympic Park

Dates

26–27 October

Competitors

25 from 23 nations

Medalists

	Mehdi Yousefi	Iran
	Lu Feng	China
	Masaki Sato	Japan
	Arsen Balaian

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Main article: 2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships

2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships

	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 79 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships, and will be held in Tirana, Albania on 26 and 27 October 2024.

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

Final

	Final

	Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	12
	Lu Feng (CHN)	5

Top half

Round of 32		Round of 16		Quarterfinals		Semifinals

		Ivan Harashuk (UKR)	4
Arjan Danaj (ALB)	0	Ali Tcokaev (AZE)	4
Ali Tcokaev (AZE)	11			Ivan Harashuk (UKR)	0
Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	11			Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	11
Owen Martin (CAN)	0	Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	10
Okan Tahtacı (TUR)	12	Raffaele Matrullo (ITA)	0
Raffaele Matrullo (ITA)	14					Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	12
						Masaki Sato (JPN)	1
		Umar Mavlaev (SUI)	0
Mukhammad Abdullaev (KGZ)	0	Patrick Kennedy (USA)	9
Patrick Kennedy (USA)	11			Patrick Kennedy (USA)	6
Masaki Sato (JPN)	5			Masaki Sato (JPN)	8
Artsiom Belavusau (ANA)	0	Masaki Sato (JPN)	10
		Joona Vuoti (FIN)	0

Bottom half

Round of 32		Round of 16		Quarterfinals		Semifinals

		Sahil Dalal (IND)	0
Mateusz Pedzicki (POL)	2	Arsen Balaian (ANA)	10
Arsen Balaian (ANA)	13			Arsen Balaian (ANA)	6
Otari Adeishvili (GEO)	9			Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ)	1
Radomir Stoyanov (BUL)	10	Radomir Stoyanov (BUL)	0
		Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ)	10
						Arsen Balaian (ANA)	2
						Lu Feng (CHN)	4
		Krisztian Biro (ROU)	1
Hayk Papikyan (ARM)	4	Lu Feng (CHN)	3
Lu Feng (CHN)	10			Lu Feng (CHN)	11
Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)	12			Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)	0
Gheorghi Cara (MDA)	10	Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)	16
		Juan Cardozo (COL)	6

Repechage


Repechage round 1		Repechage round 2		Bronze medals


Owen Martin (CAN)	6	Ivan Harashuk (UKR)	2	Masaki Sato (JPN)	11

Raffaele Matrullo (ITA)	5	Owen Martin (CAN)	9	Owen Martin (CAN)	0


Hayk Papikyan (ARM)	4	Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)	4	Arsen Balaian (ANA)	9

Krisztian Biro (ROU)	2	Hayk Papikyan (ARM)	8	Hayk Papikyan (ARM)	1

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)
	Lu Feng (CHN)
	Masaki Sato (JPN)
	Arsen Balaian (ANA)
5	Owen Martin (CAN)
5	Hayk Papikyan (ARM)
7	Patrick Kennedy (USA)
8	Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)
9	Ivan Harashuk (UKR)
10	Ali Tcokaev (AZE)
11	Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ)
12	Raffaele Matrullo (ITA)
13	Radomir Stoyanov (BUL)
14	Krisztian Biro (ROU)
15	Okan Tahtacı (TUR)
16	Gheorghi Cara (MDA)
17	Otari Adeishvili (GEO)
18	Juan Cardozo (COL)
19	Mateusz Pedzicki (POL)
20	Artsiom Belavusau (ANA)
21	Umar Mavlaev (SUI)
22	Joona Vuoti (FIN)
23	Sahil Dalal (IND)
24	Arjan Danaj (ALB)
25	Mukhammad Abdullaev (KGZ)

References

"Competition Program U23 World Championships". uww.org. Retrieved 2024-10-18.

External links

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