# 1997 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman 58 kg

The men's Greco-Roman 58 kilograms is a competition featured at the 1997 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Wrocław, Poland from 11 to 13 September 1997.

## Results
### Legend

* 3C — Won by 3 cautions given to the opponent
* WO — Won by walkover

### Round 1

| | Score | |
| Round of 32 |||
| István Majoros (HUN) | 0–4 | Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) |
| Takashi Nishijima (JPN) | 3–0 | Zheng Haibo (CHN) |
| Vilayet Aghayev (AZE) | 9–1 | Armando Fernández (MEX) |
| Luis Palencia (VEN) | 0–12 | Timo Tuuri (FIN) |
| Grzegorz Szyszka (POL) | 10–0 | Petr Klikoš (CZE) |
| Park Chi-ho (KOR) | 3–2 | Constantin Borăscu (ROM) |
| Damirbek Chynaev (KGZ) | 0–4 | Djamel Ainaoui (FRA) |
| Luis Sarmiento (CUB) | 5–4 | Leoš Drmola (SVK) |
| Peter Stjernberg (SWE) | 0–5 | Sinan Hanlı (GER) |
| Ruslan Khakymov (UKR) | 0–2 | Dennis Hall (USA) |
| Rasim Niftaliev (BLR) | 9–0 3C | Marko Kruusman (EST) |
| Rafik Simonyan (RUS) | 5–2 | Arutik Rubenian (GRE) |
| Koba Guliashvili (GEO) | 5–0 | Aigars Jansons (LAT) |
| David Maia (POR) | 0–3 | Ergüder Bekişdamat (TUR) |
| Víctor Capacho (COL) | 0–10 | Armen Nazaryan (BUL) |

### Round 2

| | Score | |
| Round of 16 |||
| Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) | 6–0 | Takashi Nishijima (JPN) |
| Vilayet Aghayev (AZE) | 2–0 | Timo Tuuri (FIN) |
| Grzegorz Szyszka (POL) | 0–8 | Park Chi-ho (KOR) |
| Djamel Ainaoui (FRA) | 3–0 | Luis Sarmiento (CUB) |
| Sinan Hanlı (GER) | 0–6 | Dennis Hall (USA) |
| Rasim Niftaliev (BLR) | 3–7 | Rafik Simonyan (RUS) |
| Koba Guliashvili (GEO) | 10–0 | Ergüder Bekişdamat (TUR) |
| Armen Nazaryan (BUL) | | Bye |
| Repechage |||
| István Majoros (HUN) | 1–0 | Zheng Haibo (CHN) |
| Armando Fernández (MEX) | 14–2 | Luis Palencia (VEN) |
| Petr Klikoš (CZE) | 0–11 | Constantin Borăscu (ROM) |
| Damirbek Chynaev (KGZ) | 2–5 | Leoš Drmola (SVK) |
| Peter Stjernberg (SWE) | 2–8 | Ruslan Khakymov (UKR) |
| Marko Kruusman (EST) | 0–7 | Arutik Rubenian (GRE) |
| Aigars Jansons (LAT) | 5–0 | David Maia (POR) |
| Víctor Capacho (COL) | | Bye |

### Round 3

| | Score | |
| Quarterfinals |||
| Armen Nazaryan (BUL) | 4–6 | Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) |
| Vilayet Aghayev (AZE) | 8–3 | Park Chi-ho (KOR) |
| Djamel Ainaoui (FRA) | 2–3 | Dennis Hall (USA) |
| Rafik Simonyan (RUS) | 6–0 | Koba Guliashvili (GEO) |
| Repechage |||
| Víctor Capacho (COL) | 0–3 | István Majoros (HUN) |
| Armando Fernández (MEX) | 2–12 | Constantin Borăscu (ROM) |
| Leoš Drmola (SVK) | 0–3 | Ruslan Khakymov (UKR) |
| Arutik Rubenian (GRE) | 3–0 | Aigars Jansons (LAT) |
| Takashi Nishijima (JPN) | 0–9 | Timo Tuuri (FIN) |
| Grzegorz Szyszka (POL) | 0–5 | Luis Sarmiento (CUB) |
| Sinan Hanlı (GER) | 1–0 | Rasim Niftaliev (BLR) |
| Ergüder Bekişdamat (TUR) | | Bye |

### Round 4

| | Score | |
| Repechage |||
| Ergüder Bekişdamat (TUR) | 2–1 | István Majoros (HUN) |
| Constantin Borăscu (ROM) | 0–10 | Ruslan Khakymov (UKR) |
| Arutik Rubenian (GRE) | 3–2 | Timo Tuuri (FIN) |
| Luis Sarmiento (CUB) | 4–1 | Sinan Hanlı (GER) |
| Armen Nazaryan (BUL) | 7–3 | Park Chi-ho (KOR) |
| Djamel Ainaoui (FRA) | 2–5 | Koba Guliashvili (GEO) |

### Round 5

| | Score | |
| Semifinals |||
| Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) | 7–0 | Vilayet Aghayev (AZE) |
| Dennis Hall (USA) | 2–3 | Rafik Simonyan (RUS) |
| Repechage |||
| Ergüder Bekişdamat (TUR) | 1–3 | Ruslan Khakymov (UKR) |
| Arutik Rubenian (GRE) | 4–3 | Luis Sarmiento (CUB) |
| Armen Nazaryan (BUL) | 11–0 | Koba Guliashvili (GEO) |

### Round 6

| | Score | |
| Repechage |||
| Ruslan Khakymov (UKR) | 11–16 | Armen Nazaryan (BUL) |
| Arutik Rubenian (GRE) | | Bye |

### Round 7

| | Score | |
| Repechage |||
| Vilayet Aghayev (AZE) | 3–2 | Arutik Rubenian (GRE) |
| Armen Nazaryan (BUL) | 10–7 | Dennis Hall (USA) |

### Finals

| | Score | |
| 5th place match |||
| Arutik Rubenian (GRE) | WO | Dennis Hall (USA) |
| Bronze medal match |||
| Vilayet Aghayev (AZE) | 0–3 | Armen Nazaryan (BUL) |
| Final |||
| Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) | 6–0 | Rafik Simonyan (RUS) |