# 2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 79 kg

The men's freestyle 79 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships, and will be held in Tirana, Albania on 26 and 27 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

### Final

| Final | Final |
| Mehdi Yousefi (IRI) | 12 |
| Lu Feng (CHN) | 5 |

### Top half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | Ivan Harashuk (UKR) | 4 | | | | |
| Arjan Danaj (ALB) | 0 | Ali Tcokaev (AZE) | 4 | | | | |
| Ali Tcokaev (AZE) | 11 | | | Ivan Harashuk (UKR) | 0 | | |
| Mehdi Yousefi (IRI) | 11 | | | Mehdi Yousefi (IRI) | 11 | | |
| Owen Martin (CAN) | 0 | Mehdi Yousefi (IRI) | 10 | | | | |
| Okan Tahtacı (TUR) | 12 | Raffaele Matrullo (ITA) | 0 | | | | |
| Raffaele Matrullo (ITA) | 14 | | | | | Mehdi Yousefi (IRI) | 12 |
| | | | | | | Masaki Sato (JPN) | 1 |
| | | Umar Mavlaev (SUI) | 0 | | | | |
| Mukhammad Abdullaev (KGZ) | 0 | Patrick Kennedy (USA) | 9$^F$ | | | | |
| Patrick Kennedy (USA) | 11 | | | Patrick Kennedy (USA) | 6 | | |
| Masaki Sato (JPN) | 5$^F$ | | | Masaki Sato (JPN) | 8 | | |
| Artsiom Belavusau (ANA) | 0 | Masaki Sato (JPN) | 10 | | | | |
| | | Joona Vuoti (FIN) | 0 | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | Sahil Dalal (IND) | 0 | | | | |
| Mateusz Pedzicki (POL) | 2 | Arsen Balaian (ANA) | 10 | | | | |
| Arsen Balaian (ANA) | 13 | | | Arsen Balaian (ANA) | 6$^F$ | | |
| Otari Adeishvili (GEO) | 9 | | | Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ) | 1 | | |
| Radomir Stoyanov (BUL) | 10 | Radomir Stoyanov (BUL) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ) | 10 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Arsen Balaian (ANA) | 2 |
| | | | | | | Lu Feng (CHN) | 4 |
| | | Krisztian Biro (ROU) | 1 | | | | |
| Hayk Papikyan (ARM) | 4 | Lu Feng (CHN) | 3 | | | | |
| Lu Feng (CHN) | 10 | | | Lu Feng (CHN) | 11 | | |
| Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY) | 12 | | | Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY) | 0 | | |
| Gheorghi Cara (MDA) | 10 | Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY) | 16 | | | | |
| | | Juan Cardozo (COL) | 6 | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| Owen Martin (CAN) | 6 | Ivan Harashuk (UKR) | 2 | Masaki Sato (JPN) | 11 |
| Raffaele Matrullo (ITA) | 5 | Owen Martin (CAN) | 9 | Owen Martin (CAN) | 0 |
| Hayk Papikyan (ARM) | 4 | Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY) | 4 | Arsen Balaian (ANA) | 9 |
| Krisztian Biro (ROU) | 2 | Hayk Papikyan (ARM) | 8 | Hayk Papikyan (ARM) | 1 |

## Final standing

| Rank | Athlete |
| | Mehdi Yousefi (IRI) |
| | Lu Feng (CHN) |
| | Masaki Sato (JPN) |
| | Arsen Balaian (ANA) |
| 5 | Owen Martin (CAN) |
| 5 | Hayk Papikyan (ARM) |
| 7 | Patrick Kennedy (USA) |
| 8 | Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY) |
| 9 | Ivan Harashuk (UKR) |
| 10 | Ali Tcokaev (AZE) |
| 11 | Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ) |
| 12 | Raffaele Matrullo (ITA) |
| 13 | Radomir Stoyanov (BUL) |
| 14 | Krisztian Biro (ROU) |
| 15 | Okan Tahtacı (TUR) |
| 16 | Gheorghi Cara (MDA) |
| 17 | Otari Adeishvili (GEO) |
| 18 | Juan Cardozo (COL) |
| 19 | Mateusz Pedzicki (POL) |
| 20 | Artsiom Belavusau (ANA) |
| 21 | Umar Mavlaev (SUI) |
| 22 | Joona Vuoti (FIN) |
| 23 | Sahil Dalal (IND) |
| 24 | Arjan Danaj (ALB) |
| 25 | Mukhammad Abdullaev (KGZ) |