2009 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 96 kg

The men's freestyle 96 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Messecenter Herning exhibition center in Herning, Denmark on September 21.

Men's freestyle 96 kg at the 2009 World Championships
Venue	Messecenter Herning
Dates	21 September 2009
Competitors	29 from 29 nations
Medalists
Khadzhimurat Gatsalov    Russia   Khetag Gazyumov    Azerbaijan   Serhat Balcı    Turkey   Giorgi Gogshelidze    Georgia
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This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals.

Results

Legend

• F — Won by fall
• WO — Won by walkover

Final

	Final
	Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	2	1	0
	Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	0	1	1

Top half

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	1	4
							Nicolae Ceban (MDA)	0	1
													Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	3	1
													Serhat Balcı (TUR)	2	0
							Mohammed Suhail (IRQ)	0	0
	Radosław Baran (POL)	0	0				Serhat Balcı (TUR)	7	6
	Serhat Balcı (TUR)	3	4																Khetag Gazyumov (AZE)	1	1
	Daulet Shabanbay (KAZ)																		Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	0	1
	Edgar Yenokyan (ARM)	W	O				Edgar Yenokyan (ARM)	0	0
	Valeriy Andriytsev (UKR)	0	1				Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	3	2
	Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	1	4										Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	1	2
	Anil Kumar Mann (IND)	2	1										Saleh Emara (EGY)	0	0
	Gao Jiayu (CHN)	0	0				Anil Kumar Mann (IND)	0	1	1
	Saleh Emara (EGY)	2	0	2			Saleh Emara (EGY)	2	0	1
	Khetag Pliev (CAN)	1	8	0

Bottom half

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
	Dániel Ligeti (HUN)	2	0	0
	Jake Varner (USA)	1	2	1			Jake Varner (USA)	1	1
	Takao Isokawa (JPN)	2	1				Takao Isokawa (JPN)	0	0
	Diego Rodrigues (BRA)	0	0										Jake Varner (USA)	0	0
	Israel Silva (MEX)	2	0	0									Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)	1	1
	Rémi Delcampe (FRA)	0	1	2			Rémi Delcampe (FRA)	0	1
	Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)	4	1	1			Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)	6	2
	Kurban Kurbanov (UZB)	0	3	0															Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)	0	1	0
	Etienne van Huyssteen (RSA)	0	0																Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	1	0	4
	Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	3	1				Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	1	1
	Nikolay Chterev (BUL)	0	0				Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	0	0
	Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	6										Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	3	3
	Vasili Kalashnikov (ISR)	1	1										Oldrik Wagner (GER)	0	0
	Leon Rattigan (GBR)	2	3				Leon Rattigan (GBR)	1	1	2
	Oldrik Wagner (GER)	5F					Oldrik Wagner (GER)	0	3	4
	Luis Vivenes (VEN)	2

Repechage

	Repechage round 1						Repechage round 2						Bronze medals
							Nicolae Ceban (MDA)	0	0				Serhat Balcı (TUR)	1	1
							Serhat Balcı (TUR)	1	1				Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	0	0
	Etienne van Huyssteen (RSA)	0					Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	3	3				Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	1
	Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	6F					Oldrik Wagner (GER)	1	1				Saeid Ebrahimi (IRI)	0	0

References

• Results Book, Page 45