2025 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 70 kg

The men's freestyle 70 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2025 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Zagreb, Croatia on 13 and 14 September 2025.[1]

Men's freestyle 70 kg
at the 2025 World Championships
VenueArena Zagreb
Dates13–14 September 2025
Competitors29 from 28 nations
Medalists
gold medal    Japan
silver medal    Mongolia
bronze medal    Kyrgyzstan
bronze medal    Kazakhstan
 2024
2026 

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

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

Final

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Final
 Yoshinosuke Aoyagi (JPN) 5
 Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga (MGL) 1

Top half

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Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals
 Yoshinosuke Aoyagi (JPN) 11
 Jorge Gatica (CHI) 0  Ernazar Akmataliev (KGZ) 0
 Ernazar Akmataliev (KGZ) 10  Yoshinosuke Aoyagi (JPN) 10
Saiyn Kazyryk (UWW) 8F  Iszmail Muszukajev (HUN) 0
 Oleksii Boruta (UKR) 2 Saiyn Kazyryk (UWW) 2
 Islam Dudaev (ALB) 1  Iszmail Muszukajev (HUN) 4
 Iszmail Muszukajev (HUN) 1  Yoshinosuke Aoyagi (JPN) 8
 Arman Andreasyan (ARM) 5  Arman Andreasyan (ARM) 0
 Viktor Rassadin (TJK) 5  Arman Andreasyan (ARM) 4
 Viktor Voinović (SRB) 4  Viktor Voinović (SRB) 1
 Mohammed Al-Jawad (IRQ) 2  Arman Andreasyan (ARM) 8
 Anthony Wesley (CPV)    Kanan Heybatov (AZE) 6
 Shannon Hanna (BAH) WO  Shannon Hanna (BAH) 0
 Amir Mohammad Yazdani (IRI) 4  Kanan Heybatov (AZE) 10
 Kanan Heybatov (AZE) 15

Bottom half

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Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals
 Nurkozha Kaipanov (KAZ) 11
 Chen Shuang (CHN) 0  PJ Duke (USA) 7
 PJ Duke (USA) 11  Nurkozha Kaipanov (KAZ) 10
 Khairiddine Ben Tlili (TUN) 14  Austin Gómez (MEX) 8
 Jeong Yong-seok (KOR) 4  Khairiddine Ben Tlili (TUN) 0
 Haydar Yavuz (TUR) 2  Austin Gómez (MEX) 10
 Austin Gómez (MEX) 13  Nurkozha Kaipanov (KAZ) 2
 Vasile Diacon (MDA) 0  Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga (MGL) 5
 Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga (MGL) 2  Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga (MGL) 7F
 Mike Zale (CAN) 0  Mihail Georgiev (BUL) 1
 Mihail Georgiev (BUL) 10  Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga (MGL) 11
 Rohit Singh (IND) 4  Akaki Kemertelidze (GEO) 0
 Begijon Kuldashev (UZB) 5  Begijon Kuldashev (UZB) 0
 Akaki Kemertelidze (GEO) 4

Repechage

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Repechage round 1Repechage round 2Bronze medals
 Ernazar Akmataliev (KGZ)14 Ernazar Akmataliev (KGZ)8
 Iszmail Muszukajev (HUN)4 Arman Andreasyan (ARM)2
 Vasile Diacon (MDA)5 Vasile Diacon (MDA)3 Vasile Diacon (MDA)2
 Mihail Georgiev (BUL)2 Akaki Kemertelidze (GEO)2 Nurkozha Kaipanov (KAZ)13

Final standing

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Rank Athlete
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Yoshinosuke Aoyagi (JPN)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga (MGL)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Ernazar Akmataliev (KGZ)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Nurkozha Kaipanov (KAZ)
5  Arman Andreasyan (ARM)
5  Vasile Diacon (MDA)
7  Kanan Heybatov (AZE)
8  Austin Gómez (MEX)
9  Iszmail Muszukajev (HUN)
10 Saiyn Kazyryk (UWW)
11  PJ Duke (USA)
12  Mihail Georgiev (BUL)
13  Shannon Hanna (BAH)
14  Khairiddine Ben Tlili (TUN)
15  Akaki Kemertelidze (GEO)
16  Viktor Voinović (SRB)
17  Begijon Kuldashev (UZB)
18  Viktor Rassadin (TJK)
19  Rohit Singh (IND)
20  Jeong Yong-seok (KOR)
21  Amir Mohammad Yazdani (IRI)
22  Mohammed Al-Jawad (IRQ)
23  Haydar Yavuz (TUR)
24  Islam Dudaev (ALB)
25  Oleksii Boruta (UKR)
26  Jorge Gatica (CHI)
27  Mike Zale (CAN)
28  Chen Shuang (CHN)
 Anthony Wesley (CPV)

References

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