title: 2019 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 97 kg
text: # 2019 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 97 kg
  
  The men's freestyle 97 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.
  
  Abdulrashid Sadulaev from Russia won the gold medal.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Final
  
  | Final | Final |
  | - | - |
  | Sharif Sharifov (AZE) | 0 |
  | Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | 4 |
  
  ### Top half
  
  | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | Kyle Snyder (USA) | 10 | | | | |
  | | | Mausam Khatri (IND) | 0 | | | | |
  | | | | | Kyle Snyder (USA) | 13 | | |
  | | | | | Magomed Ibragimov (UZB) | 3 | | |
  | | | Albert Saritov (ROU) | 5 | | | | |
  | Magomed Ibragimov (UZB) | 10 | Magomed Ibragimov (UZB) | 6 | | | | |
  | Radosław Baran (POL) | 0 | | | | | Kyle Snyder (USA) | 2 |
  | Seo Min-won (KOR) | 4 | | | | | Sharif Sharifov (AZE) | 5 |
  | Sharif Sharifov (AZE) | 11 | Sharif Sharifov (AZE) | 4 | | | | |
  | Valeriy Andriytsev (UKR) | 8 | Valeriy Andriytsev (UKR) | 0 | | | | |
  | Aliaksandr Hushtyn (BLR) | 7 | | | Sharif Sharifov (AZE) | 6 | | |
  | İbrahim Çiftçi (TUR) | 1 | | | Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) | 0 | | |
  | Ali Shabani (IRI) | 9 | Ali Shabani (IRI) | 8 | | | | |
  | | | Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) | 11 | | | | |
  
  ### Bottom half
  
  | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | Ölziisaikhany Batzul (MGL) | 4 | | | | |
  | Lukas Krasauskas (LTU) | 0 | Magomed Musaev (KGZ) | 4 | | | | |
  | Magomed Musaev (KGZ) | 11 | | | Ölziisaikhany Batzul (MGL) | 0 | | |
  | Naoya Akaguma (JPN) | 1 | | | Alisher Yergali (KAZ) | 10 | | |
  | Alisher Yergali (KAZ) | 11 | Alisher Yergali (KAZ) | 2 | | | | |
  | Erik Thiele (GER) | 6 | Erik Thiele (GER) | 1 | | | | |
  | Jordan Steen (CAN) | 0 | | | | | Alisher Yergali (KAZ) | 1 |
  | José Daniel Díaz (VEN) | 4 | | | | | Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | 8 |
  | Rustam Iskandari (TJK) | 2 | José Daniel Díaz (VEN) | 2 | | | | |
  | Magomedgaji Nurov (MKD) | 9 | Magomedgaji Nurov (MKD) | 7 | | | | |
  | Hosam Merghany (EGY) | 1 | | | Magomedgaji Nurov (MKD) | 0 | | |
  | Nicolae Ceban (MDA) | 11 | | | Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | 6 | | |
  | Maxwell Lacey (CRC) | 1 | Nicolae Ceban (MDA) | 2 | | | | |
  | | | Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | 12 | | | | |
  
  ### Repechage
  
  | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Seo Min-won (KOR) | 6 | Seo Min-won (KOR) | 0 | Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) | 0 |
  | Valeriy Andriytsev (UKR) | 4 | Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) | 4 | Kyle Snyder (USA) | 5 |
  | | | Nicolae Ceban (MDA) | 1 | Magomedgaji Nurov (MKD) | 8 |
  | | | Magomedgaji Nurov (MKD) | 2 | Alisher Yergali (KAZ) | 5 |
  