Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg

Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
Men			Women
	55 kg			48 kg
	60 kg			55 kg
	66 kg			63 kg
	74 kg			72 kg
	84 kg
	96 kg
	120 kg
Greco-Roman
	55 kg			84 kg
	60 kg			96 kg
	66 kg			120 kg
	74 kg

Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on August 14 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium. Italian wrestler Andrea Minguzzi won the gold medal in this event.

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).

Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian was originally awarded a bronze medal. However, at the medal ceremony he shook hands with his competitors, walked off the podium and placed his medal down on the mat in protest at the judging in his semi-final match. On August 16, 2008, the IOC decided to strip him of his medal because they felt it amounted to a political demonstration and was disrespectful to other athletes. No other athlete will be given his medal.

Medalists

Gold	Andrea Minguzzi Italy (ITA)
Silver	Zoltán Fodor Hungary (HUN)
Bronze	Nazmi Avluca Turkey (TUR)

Tournament results

Main bracket

The gold and silver medalists were determined by the final match of the main single-elimination bracket.

Final

	Final
	Zoltán Fodor (HUN)		1	1	0
	Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)		1	1	4

Top Half

	Round of 32							Round of 16							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
								Oleksandr Daragan (UKR)		0	2	0
								Saman Tahmasebi (IRI)		4	1	3
															Saman Tahmasebi (IRI)		2	0
															Nazmi Avluca (TUR)		2	3
								Nazmi Avluca (TUR)		4	1
								Badri Khasaia (GEO)		0	1
																						Nazmi Avluca (TUR)		1	1
																						Zoltán Fodor (HUN)		2	1
								Shalva Gadabadze (AZE)		5	5
								Haykel Achouri (TUN)		0	0
															Shalva Gadabadze (AZE)		1	0	1
															Zoltán Fodor (HUN)		1	3	1
								Ma Sanyi (CHN)		0	1
								Zoltán Fodor (HUN)		2	2

Bottom Half

	Round of 32							Round of 16							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
								Mélonin Noumonvi (FRA)		1	1
								Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)		1	1
															Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)		1	0	2
															Alexei Mishine (RUS)		1	3	1
								Andrey Samokhin (KAZ)		1	0
								Alexei Mishine (RUS)		2	3
																						Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)		1	2
	Shingo Matsumoto (JPN)		2	0																		Ara Abrahamian (SWE)		1	1
	Denis Forov (ARM)		4	6				Denis Forov (ARM)		4	1	3
	Brad Vering (USA)		4	1				Brad Vering (USA)		0	2	0
	Artur Michalkiewicz (POL)		0	1											Denis Forov (ARM)		1	3	1
	Ara Abrahamian (SWE)		1	1	1										Ara Abrahamian (SWE)		1	0	2
	Kim Jung-Sub (KOR)		3	1	1			Ara Abrahamian (SWE)		2	1	1
	Attila Bátky (SVK)		0	0				Yunior Estrada (CUB)		1	1	1
	Yunior Estrada (CUB)		4	5

Repechage

Repechage Round 1

Repechage round 2

Bronze Medal Bout

Nazmi Avluca (TUR)

0 5 6

Ma Sanyi (CHN)

4 0 0

Shalva Gadabadze (AZE)

3 2

Ma Sanyi (CHN)

Ma Sanyi (CHN)

3 3

Repechage Round 1

Repechage round 2

Bronze Medal Bout

Ara Abrahamian (SWE)

4 1

Mélonin Noumonvi (FRA)

0 1

Alexey Mishine (RUS)

3 1 1

Mélonin Noumonvi (FRA)

Mélonin Noumonvi (FRA)

0 1 1