The men's Greco-Roman 87 kilograms is a competition featured at the
2023 World Wrestling Championships
The 2023 World Wrestling Championships was held from 16 to 24 September 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. Wrestlers get a chance to win 90 quotas for the Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Summer Olympics from the Belgrade Worlds. Any nation wh ...
, and was held in
Belgrade
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, Serbia on 23 and 24 September 2023.
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
*C — Won by 3 cautions given to the opponent
*F — Won by
fall
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Finals
* During the final between
Ali Cengiz and
Dávid Losonczi, Losonczi pinned his opponent but that didn't confirmed by the referees. On 15 November 2023, the
United World Wrestling
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recognized that a serious refereeing mistake had been committed which changed the outcome of this bout. Therefore, the UWW declared both wrestlers as the winners of the contest and award a gold medal to Dávid Losonczi.
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
Repechage
Final standing
References
External links
Official website
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Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg