Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 55 kg

Men's freestyle 55 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Date	19 August 2008
Competitors	19 from 19 nations
Medalists
Henry Cejudo  United States Tomohiro Matsunaga  Japan Radoslav Velikov  Bulgaria Besik Kudukhov  Russia

Main article: Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men's freestyle 55 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on August 19 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winners of two bronze medals. The two finalists faced off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who lost to one of the two finalists moved 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 consisted of up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scored more points in each round was the winner of that rounds; the bout finished when one wrestler had won two rounds (and thus the match).

Gold medal-winner Henry Cejudo would later leave the sport of wrestling to become a successful mixed martial artist in the UFC, simultaneously holding the world flyweight and bantamweight titles.

Schedule

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

Date	Time	Event
19 August 2008	09:30	Qualification rounds
	16:00	Repechage
	17:00	Finals

Results

Legend

• F — Won by fall

Final

	Final
	Henry Cejudo (USA)	2	3
	Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	2	0

Top half

	Qualifications						1/8 finals						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Yang Kyong-il (PRK)	1	1	1
							Namig Sevdimov (AZE)	1	3	2
													Namig Sevdimov (AZE)	1	1	2
													Kim Hyo-sub (KOR)	2	0	0
							Kim Hyo-sub (KOR)	3	3
							Francisco Sánchez (ESP)	1	1
																			Namig Sevdimov (AZE)	5	2	3
																			Henry Cejudo (USA)	3	3	4
							Henry Cejudo (USA)	0	3	4
							Radoslav Velikov (BUL)	1	2	3
													Henry Cejudo (USA)	1	3	3
													Besarion Gochashvili (GEO)	3	2	0
							Petru Toarcă (ROU)	0	0
							Besarion Gochashvili (GEO)	3	3

Bottom half

	Qualifications						1/8 finals						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Abbas Dabbaghi (IRI)	1	1	5
							Fredy Serrano (COL)	0	1	1
													Abbas Dabbaghi (IRI)	0	0
													Besik Kudukhov (RUS)	6	1
							Bayaraagiin Naranbaatar (MGL)	0	0
							Besik Kudukhov (RUS)	1	1
																			Besik Kudukhov (RUS)	0	0
																			Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	3	5F
							Sezar Akgül (TUR)	0	0
	Adama Diatta (SEN)	0	0				Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	5	3
	Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	1	4F										Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)	2	0	2
	Maikel Pérez (CUB)	0	0										Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)	1	1	1
	Rizvan Gadzhiev (BLR)	7	6				Rizvan Gadzhiev (BLR)	1	0	0
	Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)	1	1				Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)	0	1	1
	Zhassulan Mukhtarbekuly (KAZ)	0	0

Repechage

	Repechage round 1						Repechage round 2						Bronze medals
							Radoslav Velikov (BUL)	1	2				Radoslav Velikov (BUL)	0	3	1
							Besarion Gochashvili (GEO)	0	1				Namig Sevdimov (AZE)	2	1	0
	Adama Diatta (SEN)	0	1	0			Sezar Akgül (TUR)	0	0				Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)	0	0
	Sezar Akgül (TUR)	1	0	1			Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)	4	4				Besik Kudukhov (RUS)	1	2

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Henry Cejudo (USA)
	Tomohiro Matsunaga (JPN)
	Radoslav Velikov (BUL)
	Besik Kudukhov (RUS)
5	Namig Sevdimov (AZE)
5	Dilshod Mansurov (UZB)
7	Rizvan Gadzhiev (BLR)
8	Besarion Gochashvili (GEO)
9	Kim Hyo-sub (KOR)
10	Abbas Dabbaghi (IRI)
11	Sezar Akgül (TUR)
12	Yang Kyong-il (PRK)
13	Francisco Sánchez (ESP)
14	Fredy Serrano (COL)
15	Adama Diatta (SEN)
16	Bayaraagiin Naranbaatar (MGL)
16	Zhassulan Mukhtarbekuly (KAZ)
18	Petru Toarcă (ROU)
19	Maikel Pérez (CUB)

References

• Competition format
• Results Book, Page 26