# 2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 86 kg

The men's freestyle 86 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships, and will be held in Tirana, Albania on 25 and 26 October 2024.
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
### Legend

* F — Won by fall
* R — Retired

### Final

| Final | Final |
| Arslan Bagaev (ANA) | 6 |
| Arsenii Dzhioev (AZE) | 3 |

### Top half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | Abolfazl Rahmani (IRI) | 2 | | | | |
| Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO) | 12 | Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO) | 4 | | | | |
| Taran Goring (CAN) | 2 | | | Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO) | 1 | | |
| Arslan Bagaev (ANA) | 11 | | | Arslan Bagaev (ANA) | 7 | | |
| Miko Elkala (FIN) | 0 | Arslan Bagaev (ANA) | 11 | | | | |
| John Gunderson (USA) | 11 | John Gunderson (USA) | 0 | | | | |
| Emre Çiftçi (TUR) | 11 | | | | | Arslan Bagaev (ANA) | 8 |
| | | | | | | Eugeniu Mihalcean (MDA) | 1 |
| | | Michal Vereš (SVK) | 0 | | | | |
| Aaron Ayzerov (ISR) | 15 | Aaron Ayzerov (ISR) | 11 | | | | |
| Nurzhan Issagaliyev (KAZ) | 5 | | | Aaron Ayzerov (ISR) | 4 | | |
| Ilya Khamtsou (ANA) | 1 | | | Eugeniu Mihalcean (MDA) | 9 | | |
| Eugeniu Mihalcean (MDA) | 3 | Eugeniu Mihalcean (MDA) | 11 | | | | |
| | | Altin Ganci (ALB) | 0 | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | Hui Chen (CHN) | 2 | | | | |
| Denys Bykov (UKR) | 0 | Deepak (IND) | 6 | | | | |
| Deepak (IND) | 7 | | | Deepak (IND) | 0 | | |
| Joshua Morodion (GER) | 0 | | | Arsenii Dzhioev (AZE) | 8 | | |
| Arsenii Dzhioev (AZE) | 11 | Arsenii Dzhioev (AZE) | 11 | | | | |
| César Ubico (GUA) | 5 | César Ubico (GUA) | 0 | | | | |
| Razmik Yepremyan (ARM) | 9$^R$ | | | | | Arsenii Dzhioev (AZE) | 2 |
| Bekzat Rakhimov (KGZ) | 7 | | | | | Yudai Takahashi (JPN) | 1 |
| Kweli Hernandez (PUR) | 0 | Bekzat Rakhimov (KGZ) | 0 | | | | |
| Yudai Takahashi (JPN) | 8 | Yudai Takahashi (JPN) | 8 | | | | |
| Rakhim Magamadov (FRA) | 6 | | | Yudai Takahashi (JPN) | 6 | | |
| Steven Rodriguez (VEN) | 4$^F$ | | | Steven Rodriguez (VEN) | 1 | | |
| Fateh Benferdjallah (ALG) | 3 | Steven Rodriguez (VEN) | 5 | | | | |
| | | Gabriel Ramos (ESP) | 1 | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| Miko Elkala (FIN) | 5 | John Gunderson (USA) | 0 | Eugeniu Mihalcean (MDA) | 6 |
| John Gunderson (USA) | 7 | Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO) | 5 | Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO) | 5 |
| César Ubico (GUA) | 0 | Deepak (IND) | 1 | Yudai Takahashi (JPN) | 9 |
| Joshua Morodion (GER) | 10 | Joshua Morodion (GER) | 2 | Joshua Morodion (GER) | 2 |

## Final standing

| Rank | Athlete |
| | Arslan Bagaev (ANA) |
| | Arsenii Dzhioev (AZE) |
| | Eugeniu Mihalcean (MDA) |
| | Yudai Takahashi (JPN) |
| 5 | Vladimeri Gamkrelidze (GEO) |
| 5 | Joshua Morodion (GER) |
| 7 | Steven Rodriguez (VEN) |
| 8 | Aaron Ayzerov (ISR) |
| 9 | Deepak (IND) |
| 10 | John Gunderson (USA) |
| 11 | César Ubico (GUA) |
| 12 | Bekzat Rakhimov (KGZ) |
| 13 | Emre Çiftçi (TUR) |
| 14 | Rakhim Magamadov (FRA) |
| 15 | Nurzhan Issagaliyev (KAZ) |
| 16 | Miko Elkala (FIN) |
| 17 | Abolfazl Rahmani (IRI) |
| 18 | Hui Chen (CHN) |
| 19 | Taran Goring (CAN) |
| 20 | Ilya Khamtsou (ANA) |
| 21 | Gabriel Ramos (ESP) |
| 22 | Razmik Yepremyan (ARM) |
| 23 | Fateh Benferdjallah (ALG) |
| 24 | Denys Bykov (UKR) |
| 25 | Kweli Hernandez (PUR) |
| 26 | Michal Vereš (SVK) |
| 27 | Altin Ganci (ALB) |