1997 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 130 kg

The men's freestyle 130 kilograms is a competition featured at the 1997 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Yenisey Sports Palace in Krasnoyarsk, Russia from 29 to 31 August 1997.[1]

Medalists

Gold	Zekeriya Güçlü  Turkey
Silver	Alexis Rodríguez  Cuba
Bronze	David Musulbes  Russia

Results

Round 1

	Score
Round of 32
Zsolt Gombos (HUN)	4–9	Feng Aigang (CHN)
Milan Mazáč (SVK)	1–3	Ebrahim Mehraban (IRI)
Zekeriya Güçlü (TUR)	4–1	Aleksey Medvedev (BLR)
Oleg Ladik (CAN)	3–2	Igor Klimov (KAZ)
Gelegjamtsyn Ösökhbayar (MGL)	4–2	Kim Kil-soo (KOR)
Krasimir Kochev (BUL)	3–0	Oleg Naniev (UZB)
Juan García (VEN)	0–11	Alexis Rodríguez (CUB)
Mamuka Pretsuashvili (GEO)	0–8	David Musulbes (RUS)
Sven Thiele (GER)	1–6 Fall	Tom Erikson (USA)
Tasos Simonidis (GRE)	0–5	Yuri Chobitko (UKR)
Hiroyuki Obata (JPN)		Bye

Round 2

	Score
Round of 16
Hiroyuki Obata (JPN)	0–3	Feng Aigang (CHN)
Ebrahim Mehraban (IRI)	0–3	Zekeriya Güçlü (TUR)
Oleg Ladik (CAN)	4–1	Gelegjamtsyn Ösökhbayar (MGL)
Krasimir Kochev (BUL)	1–3	Alexis Rodríguez (CUB)
David Musulbes (RUS)	0–2	Tom Erikson (USA)
Yuri Chobitko (UKR)		Bye
Repechage
Zsolt Gombos (HUN)	0–0	Milan Mazáč (SVK)
Aleksey Medvedev (BLR)	3–0	Igor Klimov (KAZ)
Kim Kil-soo (KOR)	1–4	Oleg Naniev (UZB)
Juan García (VEN)	0–4 Fall	Mamuka Pretsuashvili (GEO)
Sven Thiele (GER)	7–0 Fall	Tasos Simonidis (GRE)

Round 3

	Score
Quarterfinals
Yuri Chobitko (UKR)	2–1 Fall	Feng Aigang (CHN)
Zekeriya Güçlü (TUR)	3–1	Oleg Ladik (CAN)
Alexis Rodríguez (CUB)		Bye
Tom Erikson (USA)		Bye
Repechage
Milan Mazáč (SVK)	1–3	Aleksey Medvedev (BLR)
Oleg Naniev (UZB)	0–0	Mamuka Pretsuashvili (GEO)
Sven Thiele (GER)	5–0	Hiroyuki Obata (JPN)
Ebrahim Mehraban (IRI)	4–0	Gelegjamtsyn Ösökhbayar (MGL)
Krasimir Kochev (BUL)	0–2	David Musulbes (RUS)

Round 4

	Score
Semifinals
Yuri Chobitko (UKR)	0–1	Zekeriya Güçlü (TUR)
Alexis Rodríguez (CUB)	4–1	Tom Erikson (USA)
Repechage
Aleksey Medvedev (BLR)	3–0	Oleg Naniev (UZB)
Sven Thiele (GER)	3–1	Ebrahim Mehraban (IRI)
David Musulbes (RUS)	9–4	Feng Aigang (CHN)
Oleg Ladik (CAN)		Bye

Round 5

	Score
Repechage
Oleg Ladik (CAN)	1–4	Aleksey Medvedev (BLR)
Sven Thiele (GER)	0–4	David Musulbes (RUS)

Round 6

	Score
Repechage
Yuri Chobitko (UKR)	0–4	David Musulbes (RUS)
Aleksey Medvedev (BLR)	3–4	Tom Erikson (USA)

Finals

	Score
5th place match
Yuri Chobitko (UKR)	2–4	Aleksey Medvedev (BLR)
Bronze medal match
David Musulbes (RUS)	4–0	Tom Erikson (USA)
Final
Zekeriya Güçlü (TUR)	4–0	Alexis Rodríguez (CUB)

References

1. "Final Freestyle World Championships release, including team scores". themat.com. Retrieved 26 May 2020.

External links

• UWW Database