Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg

Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Date	14 August
Competitors	20 from 20 nations
Medalists
Mijaín López  Cuba Mindaugas Mizgaitis  Lithuania Yannick Szczepaniak  France Yury Patrikeyev  Armenia
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Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman	Women
	55 kg	55 kg	48 kg
	60 kg	60 kg	55 kg
	66 kg	66 kg	63 kg
	74 kg	74 kg	72 kg
	84 kg	84 kg
	96 kg	96 kg
	120 kg	120 kg
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Men's Greco-Roman 120 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on August 14 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

This Greco-Roman 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.

Each bout consists of up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scores more points in each round is the winner of that rounds; the bout ends when one wrestler has won two rounds (and thus the match).

Schedule[]

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Results[]

Legend

• F — Won by fall

Final[]

	Final
	Khasan Baroev (RUS)	0	1
	Mijaín López (CUB)	5	1

Top half[]

	Qualifications							1/8 finals							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
								Mihály Deák-Bárdos (HUN)		2	4
								Ari Taub (CAN)		1	1
															Mihály Deák-Bárdos (HUN)		1	2	1
															Yannick Szczepaniak (FRA)		1	0	1
								Yannick Szczepaniak (FRA)		1	1	1
								Ivan Ivanov (BUL)		1	1	1
																						Yannick Szczepaniak (FRA)		1	1
																						Khasan Baroev (RUS)		2	1
								Khasan Baroev (RUS)		3	6
								Masoud Hashemzadeh (IRI)		0	0
															Khasan Baroev (RUS)		2	3
															Mindaugas Mizgaitis (LTU)		1	0
								Rıza Kayaalp (TUR)		1	1
								Mindaugas Mizgaitis (LTU)		1	3F

Bottom half[]

	Qualifications							1/8 finals							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
								Yasser Sakr (EGY)		1	0
								Yury Patrikeyev (ARM)		5	7
															Yury Patrikeyev (ARM)		1	0
															Mijaín López (CUB)		1	3F
								Siarhei Artsiukhin (BLR)		0	1
								Mijaín López (CUB)		3	2
																						Mijaín López (CUB)		4	5
	Jalmar Sjöberg (SWE)		0	5	3																	Jalmar Sjöberg (SWE)		0	0
	Marek Mikulski (POL)		4	0	0			Jalmar Sjöberg (SWE)		2	3
	Davyd Saldadze (UZB)		1	2	0			Anton Botev (AZE)		0	0
	Anton Botev (AZE)		2	1	2										Jalmar Sjöberg (SWE)		0	1	1
	Oleksandr Chernetskyi (UKR)		1	0											Dremiel Byers (USA)		3	1	1
	Dremiel Byers (USA)		1	2				Dremiel Byers (USA)		4	1	1
	Panagiotis Papadopoulos (GRE)		0	1				Liu Deli (CHN)		0	1	1
	Liu Deli (CHN)		3	1

Repechage[]

	Repechage round 2						Bronze medal bout
	Masoud Hashemzadeh (IRI)		1	1	1		Mindaugas Mizgaitis (LTU)		2	2
	Mindaugas Mizgaitis (LTU)		1	1	2		Yannick Szczepaniak (FRA)		1	1
	Siarhei Artsiukhin (BLR)		0	1			Yury Patrikeyev (ARM)		2	1	3
	Yury Patrikeyev (ARM)		2	1			Jalmar Sjöberg (SWE)		1	1	0

Final standing[]

Rank	Athlete
	Mijaín López (CUB)
	Mindaugas Mizgaitis (LTU)
	Yannick Szczepaniak (FRA)
	Yury Patrikeyev (ARM)
5	Jalmar Sjöberg (SWE)
6	Dremiel Byers (USA)
7	Mihály Deák-Bárdos (HUN)
8	Liu Deli (CHN)
9	Anton Botev (AZE)
10	Siarhei Artsiukhin (BLR)
11	Marek Mikulski (POL)
12	Ivan Ivanov (BUL)
13	Davyd Saldadze (UZB)
14	Masoud Hashemzadeh (IRI)
15	Ari Taub (CAN)
16	Oleksandr Chernetskyi (UKR)
17	Panagiotis Papadopoulos (GRE)
18	Yasser Sakr (EGY)
19	Rıza Kayaalp (TUR)
DQ	Khasan Baroev (RUS)

• Khasan Baroev of Russia originally won the silver medal, but he was disqualified after he tested positive for Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone in November 2016.^[1][2]

References[]

• Results Book, Page 13