The men's freestyle 97 kg is a competition featured at the 2023 U23 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Tirana, Albania on 24 and 25 October 2023.[1][2]
| Men's freestyle 97 kg at the 2023 U23 World Championships | ||||||||||||
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| Venue | Tirana Olympic Park | |||||||||||
| Dates | 24–25 October | |||||||||||
| Competitors | 17 from 14 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 | |||
 Radu Lefter (MDA)
| 2 | ||
 Isaac Trumble (USA)
| 12 | ||
Top half edit
| Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | ||||||||||||
 Aidan Stevenson (CAN)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
 Ertuğrul Ağca (GER)
| 10 | ||||||||||||||
| Ertuğrul Ağca (GER)
| 7 | ||||||||||||||
 Yunus Gafurov (KAZ)
| 7 |  Sahil Ahlawat (UWW)
| 9 | ||||||||||||
 Richárd Végh (HUN)
| 3 | Yunus Gafurov (KAZ)
| 6 | ||||||||||||
| Sahil Ahlawat (UWW)
| 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Sahil Ahlawat (UWW)
| 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Radu Lefter (MDA)
| 6 | ||||||||||||||
 Adam Jakšík (SVK)
| 1 | ||||||||||||||
 David Mchedlidze (UKR)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| David Mchedlidze (UKR)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Radu Lefter (MDA)
| 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Radu Lefter (MDA)
| 8 | ||||||||||||||
 Sergey Kozyrev (ANA)
| 8 | ||||||||||||||
Bottom half edit
| Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | ||||||||||||
 Oktay Çiftçi (TUR)
| 10 | ||||||||||||||
| Uladzislau Kazlou (ANA)
| 9 | ||||||||||||||
| Oktay Çiftçi (TUR)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Isaac Trumble (USA)
| 11 | ||||||||||||||
 Hibiki Ito (JPN)
| 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Isaac Trumble (USA)
| 13 | ||||||||||||||
| Isaac Trumble (USA)
| 11 | ||||||||||||||
 Sergey Sargsyan (ARM)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
 Thomas Barns (AUS)
| 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Sergey Sargsyan (ARM)
| 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Sergey Sargsyan (ARM)
| 14 | ||||||||||||||
 Merab Suleimanishvili (GEO)
| 14 | ||||||||||||||
| Merab Suleimanishvili (GEO)
| 14 | ||||||||||||||
 Nicolaas de Lange (RSA)
| 10 | ||||||||||||||
Repechage edit
| Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | |||||
| Sergey Kozyrev (ANA) | 7 | Sergey Kozyrev (ANA) | 10 | |||
| David Mchedlidze (UKR) | 0 | Sahil Ahlawat (UWW) | 0 | |||
| Hibiki Ito (JPN) | 6 | Oktay Çiftçi (TUR) | WO | |||
| Oktay Çiftçi (TUR) | 7 | Sergey Sargsyan (ARM) | ||||
References edit
- ^ "Schedule" (PDF). uww.org. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "U23 World Championships - Oct 2023 FS - 97 kg". uww.org. Retrieved 26 October 2023.