2023 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 61 kg

Men's freestyle 61 kg at the 2023 World Championships
Venue	Štark Arena
Dates	16–17 September 2023
Competitors	27 from 24 nations
Medalists
Vito Arujau    United States   Abasgadzhi Magomedov   Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu    Kyrgyzstan   Shota Phartenadze    Georgia

2023 World Wrestling Championships
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman	Women
	57 kg	55 kg	50 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

The men's freestyle 61 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Belgrade, Serbia on 16 and 17 September 2023.^[1]

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.

Legend

• F — Won by fall
• WO — Won by walkover

	Final
	Vito Arujau (USA)	10
	Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	9

	Round of 32				Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals
					Reza Atri (IRI)	1
	Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	10			Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	1
	Daniel Popov (ISR)	0							Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	2
	Stilyan Iliev (BUL)	6							Vito Arujau (USA)	8
	Nils Leutert (SUI)	2			Stilyan Iliev (BUL)	0
	Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ)	0			Vito Arujau (USA)	10
	Vito Arujau (USA)	10											Vito Arujau (USA)	12
													Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)	2
					Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR)	8
	Joey Silva (PUR)	3			Joey Silva (PUR)	0
	Besir Alili (MKD)	2							Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR)	2
	Song Hyeon-sik (KOR)	2							Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)	4
	Intigam Valizada (AZE)	5			Intigam Valizada (AZE)	0
					Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)	5F

	Round of 32				Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals
					Shota Phartenadze (GEO)	5
	Norik Harutyunyan (ARM)	0			Andrei Bekreneu (AIN)	0
	Andrei Bekreneu (AIN)	5							Shota Phartenadze (GEO)	5
	Leonid Colesnic (MDA)	5							Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB)	3
	Akash Dahiya (UWW)	10			Akash Dahiya (UWW)	4
	Nick Lattanze (CAN)				Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB)	7F
	Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB)	WO											Shota Phartenadze (GEO)	0
	Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU)	0											Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	10
	Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	10			Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	12
	Li Weiyu (CHN)	11			Li Weiyu (CHN)	0
	Abdelhak Kherbache (ALG)	0							Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)	16F
	Kenneth Koech (KEN)	0							Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	4
	Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	10			Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	12
					Narmandakhyn Narankhüü (MGL)	8

	Repechage round 1				Repechage round 2				Bronze medals
	Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ)	10			Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ)	3			Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	1
	Stilyan Iliev (BUL)	0			Kodai Ogawa (JPN)	3			Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)	2
	Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU)	0			Li Weiyu (CHN)	0			Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	5
	Li Weiyu (CHN)	11			Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)	4F			Shota Phartenadze (GEO)	5

Rank	Athlete
	Vito Arujau (USA)
	Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN)
	Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ)
	Shota Phartenadze (GEO)
5	Kodai Ogawa (JPN)
5	Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR)
7	Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB)
8	Li Weiyu (CHN)
9	Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ)
10	Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR)
11	Akash Dahiya (UWW)
12	Stilyan Iliev (BUL)
13	Andrei Bekreneu (AIN)
14	Intigam Valizada (AZE)
15	Joey Silva (PUR)
16	Narmandakhyn Narankhüü (MGL)
17	Leonid Colesnic (MDA)
18	Besir Alili (MKD)
19	Song Hyeon-sik (KOR)
20	Nils Leutert (SUI)
21	Reza Atri (IRI)
22	Norik Harutyunyan (ARM)
23	Daniel Popov (ISR)
24	Kenneth Koech (KEN)
25	Abdelhak Kherbache (ALG)
26	Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU)
—	Nick Lattanze (CAN)

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