Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Georgia World Congress Center from July 21 to July 22.

The gold and silver medalists were determined by the final match of the main single-elimination bracket. The losers advanced to the repechage. These matches determined the bronze medalist for the event.

Medalists

Gold	Aleksandr Karelin  Russia
Silver	Matt Ghaffari  United States
Bronze	Sergei Mureiko  Moldova

Results

Round 1

	Score
Rachid Belaziz (MAR)	0–8	Tomas Johansson (SWE)
Aleksandr Karelin (RUS)	10–0	Omrane Ayari (TUN)
Sergei Mureiko (MDA)	12–1	Gheorghe Amariei (ROU)
Yogi Johl (CAN)	0–0	Helger Hallik (EST)
Guillermo Díaz (MEX)	0–10	Panagiotis Poikilidis (GRE)
Petro Kotok (UKR)	5–0	Raoul Dgvareli (TJK)
Matt Ghaffari (USA)	7–1	Shermuhammad Quziev (UZB)
Liu Guoke (CHN)	0–3	René Schiekel (GER)
Kenichi Suzuki (JPN)	0–3	György Kékes (HUN)
Juha Ahokas (FIN)		Bye

Round 2

	Score
Losers table
Rachid Belaziz (MAR)	2–4	Omrane Ayari (TUN)
Gheorghe Amariei (ROU)	1–3	Yogi Johl (CAN)
Guillermo Díaz (MEX)	2–4	Raoul Dgvareli (TJK)
Shermuhammad Quziev (UZB)	6–1	Liu Guoke (CHN)
Kenichi Suzuki (JPN)		Bye
Winners table
Juha Ahokas (FIN)	2–0	Tomas Johansson (SWE)
Aleksandr Karelin (RUS)	2–0	Sergei Mureiko (MDA)
Helger Hallik (EST)	0–3	Panagiotis Poikilidis (GRE)
Petro Kotok (UKR)	0–3	Matt Ghaffari (USA)
René Schiekel (GER)	2–0	György Kékes (HUN)

Round 3

	Score
Losers table
Kenichi Suzuki (JPN)	4–3	Omrane Ayari (TUN)
Yogi Johl (CAN)	0–2	Raoul Dgvareli (TJK)
Shermuhammad Quziev (UZB)	1–1	Tomas Johansson (SWE)
Sergei Mureiko (MDA)	4–0	Helger Hallik (EST)
Petro Kotok (UKR)	4–0	György Kékes (HUN)
Winners table (Quarterfinals)
Juha Ahokas (FIN)	0–4 Fall	Aleksandr Karelin (RUS)
Panagiotis Poikilidis (GRE)		Bye
Matt Ghaffari (USA)		Bye
René Schiekel (GER)		Bye

Round 4

	Score
Losers table
Kenichi Suzuki (JPN)	8–0	Raoul Dgvareli (TJK)
Tomas Johansson (SWE)	0–3	Sergei Mureiko (MDA)
Petro Kotok (UKR)	2–0	Juha Ahokas (FIN)
Winners table (Semifinals)
Aleksandr Karelin (RUS)	8–0 Fall	Panagiotis Poikilidis (GRE)
Matt Ghaffari (USA)	4–0	René Schiekel (GER)

Round 5

	Score
Losers table
Kenichi Suzuki (JPN)	0–11	Sergei Mureiko (MDA)
Petro Kotok (UKR)		Bye

Round 6

	Score
Losers table
Panagiotis Poikilidis (GRE)	1–3	Petro Kotok (UKR)
Sergei Mureiko (MDA)	5–0	René Schiekel (GER)

Finals

	Score
7th place match
Kenichi Suzuki (JPN)	0–8 Fall	Tomas Johansson (SWE)
5th place match
Panagiotis Poikilidis (GRE)	3–0	René Schiekel (GER)
Bronze medal match
Petro Kotok (UKR)	0–1	Sergei Mureiko (MDA)
Gold medal match
Aleksandr Karelin (RUS)	1–0	Matt Ghaffari (USA)

Final standing

Rank	Athlete
	Aleksandr Karelin (RUS)
	Matt Ghaffari (USA)
	Sergei Mureiko (MDA)
4	Petro Kotok (UKR)
5	Panagiotis Poikilidis (GRE)
6	René Schiekel (GER)
7	Tomas Johansson (SWE)
8	Kenichi Suzuki (JPN)
9	Raoul Dgvareli (TJK)
10	Shermuhammad Quziev (UZB)
11	Omrane Ayari (TUN)
12	György Kékes (HUN)
13	Yogi Johl (CAN)
14	Juha Ahokas (FIN)
15	Helger Hallik (EST)
16	Gheorghe Amariei (ROU)
17	Rachid Belaziz (MAR)
18	Guillermo Díaz (MEX)
19	Liu Guoke (CHN)

References

• Official Report