title: 2019 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 79 kg
text: # 2019 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 79 kg
  
  The men's freestyle 79 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on 21 and 22 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
  
  * F — Won by fall
  
  ### Final
  
  | Final | Final |
  | - | - |
  | Kyle Dake (USA) | 4 |
  | Jabrayil Hasanov (AZE) | 2 |
  
  ### Top half
  
  | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | Kyle Dake (USA) | 12 | | | | |
  | | | Oibek Nasirov (KGZ) | 2 | | | | |
  | | | | | Kyle Dake (USA) | 5 | | |
  | | | | | Gadzhi Nabiev (RUS) | 1 | | |
  | | | Gadzhi Nabiev (RUS) | 5 | | | | |
  | | | Yudai Takahashi (JPN) | 0 | | | | |
  | | | | | | | Kyle Dake (USA) | 6 |
  | | | | | | | Rashid Kurbanov (UZB) | 1 |
  | | | Grigor Grigoryan (ARM) | $7^F$ | | | | |
  | | | Nika Kentchadze (GEO) | 6 | | | | |
  | | | | | Grigor Grigoryan (ARM) | 8 | | |
  | Jang Woo-min (KOR) | 2 | | | Rashid Kurbanov (UZB) | 8 | | |
  | Rashid Kurbanov (UZB) | 12 | Rashid Kurbanov (UZB) | 13 | | | | |
  | | | Bahman Teymouri (IRI) | 10 | | | | |
  
  ### Bottom half
  
  | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | Muhammet Nuri Kotanoğlu (TUR) | 1 | | | | |
  | Gheorghi Pascalov (MDA) | 2 | Jitender Kumar (IND) | 7 | | | | |
  | Jitender Kumar (IND) | 7 | | | Jitender Kumar (IND) | 0 | | |
  | Tajmuraz Salkazanov (SVK) | 7 | | | Tajmuraz Salkazanov (SVK) | 4 | | |
  | Ayoub Barraj (TUN) | 1 | Tajmuraz Salkazanov (SVK) | 2 | | | | |
  | Dorjvaanchigiin Gombodorj (MGL) | 11 | Dorjvaanchigiin Gombodorj (MGL) | 1 | | | | |
  | Lin Zeping (CHN) | 8 | | | | | Tajmuraz Salkazanov (SVK) | 3 |
  | Hanoch Rachamin (ISR) | 0 | | | | | Jabrayil Hasanov (AZE) | 4 |
  | Galymzhan Usserbayev (KAZ) | 10 | Galymzhan Usserbayev (KAZ) | 4 | | | | |
  | Murad Gaidarov (BLR) | 3 | Omaraskhab Nazhmudinov (ROU) | 3 | | | | |
  | Omaraskhab Nazhmudinov (ROU) | 6 | | | Galymzhan Usserbayev (KAZ) | 4 | | |
  | Andrzej Sokalski (POL) | 2 | | | Jabrayil Hasanov (AZE) | 13 | | |
  | Dmytrii Tkachenko (UKR) | 7 | Dmytrii Tkachenko (UKR) | 0 | | | | |
  | | | Jabrayil Hasanov (AZE) | 7 | | | | |
  
  ### Repechage
  
  | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Oibek Nasirov (KGZ) | 2 | Gadzhi Nabiev (RUS) | 8 |
  | Gadzhi Nabiev (RUS) | 8 | Rashid Kurbanov (UZB) | 3 |
  | Dmytrii Tkachenko (UKR) | 1 | Galymzhan Usserbayev (KAZ) | 2 |
  | Galymzhan Usserbayev (KAZ) | 5 | Tajmuraz Salkazanov (SVK) | 3 |
  
  * Dmytrii Tkachenko of Ukraine originally finished 11th, but was disqualified later.
  