2019 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 125 kg

Men's freestyle 125 kg
at the 2019 World Championships
VenueBarys Arena
Dates20–21 September 2019
Competitors28 from 28 nations
Medalists
gold medal Geno Petriashvili   Georgia
silver medal Taha Akgül   Turkey
bronze medal Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi   Ukraine
bronze medal Deng Zhiwei   China
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The men's freestyle 125 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on 20 and 21 September.[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.

Results

Legend
  • C — Won by 3 cautions given to the opponent
  • F — Won by fall

Final

Final
 Geno Petriashvili (GEO) 6
 Taha Akgül (TUR) 6

Top half

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals
 Geno Petriashvili (GEO) 13
 Egzon Shala (KOS) 4F  Egzon Shala (KOS) 2
 Jere Heino (FIN) 7  Geno Petriashvili (GEO) 14
 Johannes Ludescher (AUT) 4  Badzha Khutaba (SYR) 4
 José Cuba (ESP) 0  Johannes Ludescher (AUT) 2
 Badzha Khutaba (SYR) 12  Badzha Khutaba (SYR) 6
 Jung Yei-hyun (KOR) 2  Geno Petriashvili (GEO) 6
 Levan Berianidze (ARM) 2  Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi (UKR) 2
 Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi (UKR) 3  Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi (UKR) 4
 Oleg Boltin (KAZ) 4  Alan Khugaev (RUS) 3
 Alan Khugaev (RUS) 7  Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi (UKR) 3
 Yadollah Mohebbi (IRI) 6  Yadollah Mohebbi (IRI) 2
 Dorjkhandyn Khüderbulga (MGL) 1  Yadollah Mohebbi (IRI) 5
 Nick Gwiazdowski (USA) 2

Bottom half

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals
 Taha Akgül (TUR) 8
 Nobuyoshi Arakida (JPN) 0  Alexander Romanov (MDA) 0
 Alexander Romanov (MDA) 8C  Taha Akgül (TUR) 3
 Dániel Ligeti (HUN) 2  Khasanboy Rakhimov (UZB) 0
 Sumit Malik (IND) 0  Dániel Ligeti (HUN) 0
 Khasanboy Rakhimov (UZB) 10  Khasanboy Rakhimov (UZB) 5F
 Luis Vivenes (VEN) 0  Taha Akgül (TUR) 5
 Vitali Piasniak (BLR) 1  Deng Zhiwei (CHN) 0
 Jamaladdin Magomedov (AZE) 9  Jamaladdin Magomedov (AZE) 5
 Khaled Omr Abdalla (EGY) 3  Nick Matuhin (GER) 1
 Nick Matuhin (GER) 7  Jamaladdin Magomedov (AZE) 0
 Robert Baran (POL) 3  Deng Zhiwei (CHN) 3
 Korey Jarvis (CAN) 0  Robert Baran (POL) 1
 Deng Zhiwei (CHN) 4

Repechage

Repechage round 2Bronze medals
 Egzon Shala (KOS)9 Badzha Khutaba (SYR)1
 Badzha Khutaba (SYR)14 Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi (UKR)5
 Alexander Romanov (MDA)0 Khasanboy Rakhimov (UZB)6
 Khasanboy Rakhimov (UZB)6 Deng Zhiwei (CHN)1
  • Khasanboy Rakhimov of Uzbekistan originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified after he tested positive for doping. Deng Zhiwei was raised to third and took the bronze medal. Badzha Khutaba from Syria who originally finished 5th also failed the doping test, their Olympic quotas were transferred to Yadollah Mohebbi of Iran and Egzon Shala of Kosovo.

References

  1. ^ "Senior World Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Retrieved 21 March 2020.

External links

  • Official website
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World Champions in freestyle super heavyweight (125 kg)
  • 1969–1983: +100 kg
  • 1985–2001: 130 kg
  • 2002–2013: 120 kg
  • 2014–present: 125 kg