2018 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 61 kg
# 2018 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 61 kg

The men's freestyle 61 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Budapest, Hungary on 20 and 21 October.

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.

Yowlys Bonne from Cuba won the gold medal.

## Results

### Legend

* F — Won by fall

### Final

| Final | Final |
| - | - |
| Yowlys Bonne (CUB) | 6 |
| Gadzhimurad Rashidov (RUS) | 5 |

### Top half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Abbos Rakhmonov (UZB) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Bagher Yakhkeshi (IRI) | 7 | | | | |
| | | | | Bagher Yakhkeshi (IRI) | 8 | | |
| | | | | Yowlys Bonne (CUB) | $10^F$ | | |
| | | Yowlys Bonne (CUB) | 4 | | | | |
| | | Ivan Guidea (ROU) | 2 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Yowlys Bonne (CUB) | 9 |
| | | | | | | Joe Colon (USA) | 4 |
| | | Vladimir Dubov (BUL) | 8 | | | | |
| | | Recep Topal (TUR) | 6 | | | | |
| | | | | Vladimir Dubov (BUL) | 0 | | |
| Kuat Amirtayev (KAZ) | 1 | | | Joe Colon (USA) | 10 | | |
| Ivan Bileichuk (UKR) | 11 | Ivan Bileichuk (UKR) | 6 | | | | |
| | | Joe Colon (USA) | 9 | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Beka Lomtadze (GEO) | 6 | | | | |
| Adama Diatta (SEN) | 10 | Adama Diatta (SEN) | 0 | | | | |
| József Molnár (HUN) | 2 | | | Beka Lomtadze (GEO) | 11 | | |
| Scott Schiller (CAN) | 6 | | | Kazuya Koyanagi (JPN) | 1 | | |
| Parviz Ibrahimov (AZE) | 8 | Parviz Ibrahimov (AZE) | 4 | | | | |
| Zhou Pingping (CHN) | 0 | Kazuya Koyanagi (JPN) | 9 | | | | |
| Kazuya Koyanagi (JPN) | 11 | | | | | Beka Lomtadze (GEO) | 0 |
| Andrei Bekreneu (BLR) | 3 | | | | | Gadzhimurad Rashidov (RUS) | 10 |
| Kim Jin-cheol (KOR) | 2 | Andrei Bekreneu (BLR) | 3 | | | | |
| Lowe Bingham (NRU) | 0 | Sonba Tanaji Gongane (IND) | 4 | | | | |
| Sonba Tanaji Gongane (IND) | 10 | | | Sonba Tanaji Gongane (IND) | 0 | | |
| Tümenbilegiin Tüvshintulga (MGL) | 8 | | | Gadzhimurad Rashidov (RUS) | 12 | | |
| Ulukbek Zholdoshbekov (KGZ) | 6 | Tümenbilegiin Tüvshintulga (MGL) | 1 | | | | |
| | | Gadzhimurad Rashidov (RUS) | 2 | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - |
| Ivan Guidea (ROU) | 1 | Bagher Yakhkeshi (IRI) | 2 |
| Bagher Yakhkeshi (IRI) | 11 | Joe Colon (USA) | 13 |
| Tümenbilegiin Tüvshintulga (MGL) | 7 | Tümenbilegiin Tüvshintulga (MGL) | 6 |
| Sonba Tanaji Gongane (IND) | 0 | Beka Lomtadze (GEO) | 3 |
