2019 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 125 kg
# 2019 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 125 kg

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.

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

### Top half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Geno Petriashvili (GEO) | 13 | | | | |
| Egzon Shala (KOS) | $4^F$ | 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 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Taha Akgül (TUR) | 8 | | | | |
| Nobuyoshi Arakida (JPN) | 0 | Alexander Romanov (MDA) | 0 | | | | |
| Alexander Romanov (MDA) | $8^C$ | | | 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) | $5^F$ | | | | |
| 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 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze 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.
