2018 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 97 kg
# 2018 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 97 kg

The men's freestyle 97 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Budapest, Hungary on 22 and 23 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.

## Results

### Legend

* F — Won by fall
* WO — Won by walkover

### Final

| Final | Final |
| - | - |
| Kyle Snyder (USA) | 0 |
| Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | $2^F$ |

### Top half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Murazi Mchedlidze (UKR) | 2 | | | | |
| | | Jordan Steen (CAN) | 5 | | | | |
| | | | | Jordan Steen (CAN) | 0 | | |
| | | | | Pavlo Oliynyk (HUN) | 10 | | |
| | | Pavlo Oliynyk (HUN) | WO | | | | |
| | | Ricardo Báez (ARG) | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Pavlo Oliynyk (HUN) | 0 |
| | | | | | | Kyle Snyder (USA) | 3 |
| | | Nathaniel Tuamoheloa (ASA) | 0 | | | | |
| Kyle Snyder (USA) | 8 | Kyle Snyder (USA) | 10 | | | | |
| Ölziisaikhany Batzul (MGL) | 3 | | | Kyle Snyder (USA) | 11 | | |
| Takeshi Yamaguchi (JPN) | 10 | | | Abraham Conyedo (ITA) | 2 | | |
| Zach Merrill (PUR) | 0 | Takeshi Yamaguchi (JPN) | 2 | | | | |
| Abraham Conyedo (ITA) | 2 | Abraham Conyedo (ITA) | 7 | | | | |
| Erik Thiele (GER) | 0 | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) | 10 | | | | |
| José Daniel Díaz (VEN) | 12 | José Daniel Díaz (VEN) | 0 | | | | |
| Mausam Khatri (IND) | 2 | | | Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) | 4 | | |
| Kim Jae-gang (KOR) | 3 | | | Aslanbek Alborov (AZE) | 3 | | |
| Yang Chaoqiang (CHN) | 1 | Kim Jae-gang (KOR) | 0 | | | | |
| Aslanbek Alborov (AZE) | 10 | Aslanbek Alborov (AZE) | $11^F$ | | | | |
| Mojtaba Goleij (IRI) | 0 | | | | | Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) | 0 |
| Mamed Ibragimov (KAZ) | 2 | | | | | Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | 10 |
| Georgy Ketoev (ARM) | 2 | Mamed Ibragimov (KAZ) | 3 | | | | |
| Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | 11 | Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | 14 | | | | |
| Magomedgaji Nurov (MKD) | 0 | | | Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | 10 | | |
| Fatih Yaşarlı (TUR) | 3 | | | Magomed Ibragimov (UZB) | 0 | | |
| Magomed Ibragimov (UZB) | 6 | Magomed Ibragimov (UZB) | 11 | | | | |
| | | Aliaksandr Hushtyn (BLR) | 7 | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ölziisaikhany Batzul (MGL) | WO | Ölziisaikhany Batzul (MGL) | 4 | Abraham Conyedo (ITA) | 2 |
| Nathaniel Tuamoheloa (ASA) | | Abraham Conyedo (ITA) | 8 | Pavlo Oliynyk (HUN) | 2 |
| Magomedgaji Nurov (MKD) | 5 | Magomedgaji Nurov (MKD) | 0 | Magomed Ibragimov (UZB) | 2 |
| Mamed Ibragimov (KAZ) | 2 | Magomed Ibragimov (UZB) | 5 | Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) | $5^F$ |
