1997 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 85 kg

The men's freestyle 85 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	Les Gutches  United States
Silver	Eldar Assanov  Ukraine
Bronze	Alireza Heidari  Iran

Results

Legend

• WO — Won by walkover

Round 1

	Score
Round of 32
José Meléndez (VEN)	1–12	Gocha Chikhradze (GEO)
Justin Abdou (CAN)	0–4	Abil Sultanbekov (KAZ)
Ričardas Pauliukonis (LTU)	1–3	Eldar Assanov (UKR)
Aleksandr Maskov (KGZ)	3–4	Agvaansamdangiin Sükhbat (MGL)
Soslan Fraev (UZB)	4–1	Michał Stanisławski (POL)
André Backhaus (GER)	10–0	Rob McArthur (AUS)
Khadzhimurad Magomedov (RUS)	2–0	Ali Rıza Keser (TUR)
Yang Hyung-mo (KOR)	6–0	Jiang Shoutuan (CHN)
Alireza Heidari (IRI)	6–0	Christos Alexandridis (GRE)
Tatsuo Kawai (JPN)	0–8	Les Gutches (USA)
Sergey Poltorzhitskiy (BLR)	1–6	Plamen Paskalev (BUL)
Nicolae Ghiță (ROM)	2–2	Magomed Ibragimov (AZE)
Roney Loyola (BRA)	0–6 Fall	Igors Samušonoks (LAT)
Gari Modosyan (MKD)	0–4	Yoel Romero (CUB)

Round 2

	Score
Round of 16
Gocha Chikhradze (GEO)	1–4	Abil Sultanbekov (KAZ)
Eldar Assanov (UKR)	4–0	Agvaansamdangiin Sükhbat (MGL)
Soslan Fraev (UZB)	3–2	André Backhaus (GER)
Khadzhimurad Magomedov (RUS)	2–2	Yang Hyung-mo (KOR)
Alireza Heidari (IRI)	0–3	Les Gutches (USA)
Plamen Paskalev (BUL)	4–1	Nicolae Ghiță (ROM)
Igors Samušonoks (LAT)	1–3	Yoel Romero (CUB)
Repechage
José Meléndez (VEN)	0–5 Fall	Ričardas Pauliukonis (LTU)
Aleksandr Maskov (KGZ)	3–5	Michał Stanisławski (POL)
Rob McArthur (AUS)	0–8	Ali Rıza Keser (TUR)
Jiang Shoutuan (CHN)	2–6	Christos Alexandridis (GRE)
Tatsuo Kawai (JPN)	2–0	Sergey Poltorzhitskiy (BLR)
Magomed Ibragimov (AZE)	10–0 Fall	Roney Loyola (BRA)
Gari Modosyan (MKD)		Bye

Round 3

	Score
Quarterfinals
Abil Sultanbekov (KAZ)	2–3	Eldar Assanov (UKR)
Soslan Fraev (UZB)	1–5	Khadzhimurad Magomedov (RUS)
Les Gutches (USA)	8–0	Plamen Paskalev (BUL)
Yoel Romero (CUB)		Bye
Repechage
Gari Modosyan (MKD)	5–1	Ričardas Pauliukonis (LTU)
Michał Stanisławski (POL)	2–0	Ali Rıza Keser (TUR)
Christos Alexandridis (GRE)	2–3	Tatsuo Kawai (JPN)
Magomed Ibragimov (AZE)	6–4 Fall	Gocha Chikhradze (GEO)
Agvaansamdangiin Sükhbat (MGL)	1–4	André Backhaus (GER)
Yang Hyung-mo (KOR)	0–1	Alireza Heidari (IRI)
Nicolae Ghiță (ROM)	4–3 Fall	Igors Samušonoks (LAT)

Round 4

	Score
Repechage
Gari Modosyan (MKD)	2–3	Michał Stanisławski (POL)
Tatsuo Kawai (JPN)	0–3	Magomed Ibragimov (AZE)
André Backhaus (GER)	2–8	Alireza Heidari (IRI)
Nicolae Ghiță (ROM)	4–1	Abil Sultanbekov (KAZ)
Soslan Fraev (UZB)	5–4	Plamen Paskalev (BUL)

Round 5

	Score
Semifinals
Yoel Romero (CUB)	1–3	Eldar Assanov (UKR)
Khadzhimurad Magomedov (RUS)	2–3	Les Gutches (USA)
Repechage
Michał Stanisławski (POL)	0–3	Magomed Ibragimov (AZE)
Alireza Heidari (IRI)	6–1 Fall	Nicolae Ghiță (ROM)
Soslan Fraev (UZB)		Bye

Round 6

	Score
Repechage
Soslan Fraev (UZB)	1–2	Magomed Ibragimov (AZE)
Alireza Heidari (IRI)		Bye

Round 7

	Score
Repechage
Yoel Romero (CUB)	1–3	Alireza Heidari (IRI)
Magomed Ibragimov (AZE)	1–6	Khadzhimurad Magomedov (RUS)

Finals

	Score
5th place match
Yoel Romero (CUB)	WO	Magomed Ibragimov (AZE)
Bronze medal match
Alireza Heidari (IRI)	5–1	Khadzhimurad Magomedov (RUS)
Final
Eldar Assanov (UKR)	1–1	Les Gutches (USA)

References

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

External links

• UWW Database