# 2023 U23 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 61 kg

The men's freestyle 61 kg is a competition featured at the 2023 U23 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Tirana, Albania on 23 and 24 October 2023.
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
* WO — Won by walkover

### Final

| Final | Final |
| Bashir Magomedov (ANA) | 4 |
| Assylzhan Yessengeldi (KAZ) | 0 |

### Top half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | Konstantin Gutsev (BUL) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Ivan Hramyka (ANA) | 7 | | | | |
| | | | | Ivan Hramyka (ANA) | 8 | | |
| Dylan Shawver (PUR) | 6 | | | Nika Zakashvili (GEO) | 4 | | |
| Besir Alili (MKD) | 10 | Besir Alili (MKD) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Nika Zakashvili (GEO) | 9 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Ivan Hramyka (ANA) | 0 |
| | | | | | | Bashir Magomedov (ANA) | 10 |
| | | Bashir Magomedov (ANA) | 11 | | | | |
| | | Mezhlum Mezhlumyan (ARM) | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | Bashir Magomedov (ANA) | 14 | | |
| | | | | Julian Chlebove (USA) | 3 | | |
| | | Antonio Margiotta (PHI) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Julian Chlebove (USA) | 11 | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | Assylzhan Yessengeldi (KAZ) | 9 | | | | |
| | | Kaito Morita (JPN) | 6 | | | | |
| | | | | Assylzhan Yessengeldi (KAZ) | 4$^F$ | | |
| Vasile Marcu (MDA) | 6 | | | Akash Dahiya (UWW) | 0 | | |
| Akash Dahiya (UWW) | 16 | Akash Dahiya (UWW) | 8 | | | | |
| | | Endrio Avdyli (ALB) | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Assylzhan Yessengeldi (KAZ) | 9 |
| | | | | | | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) | 7 |
| | | Jeyhun Allahverdiyev (AZE) | 4 | | | | |
| Garette Saunders (CAN) | 0 | Emre Kural (TUR) | 1 | | | | |
| Emre Kural (TUR) | 10 | | | Jeyhun Allahverdiyev (AZE) | 5 | | |
| | | | | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) | 8 | | |
| | | Andrii Dzhelep (UKR) | | | | | |
| | | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) | WO | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| Mezhlum Mezhlumyan (ARM) | 11 | Mezhlum Mezhlumyan (ARM) | 11 |
| Julian Chlebove (USA) | 0 | Ivan Hramyka (ANA) | 0 |
| Kaito Morita (JPN) | 6 | Akash Dahiya (UWW) | 0 |
| Akash Dahiya (UWW) | 7 | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) | 7 |

## Final standing

| Rank | Athlete |
| | Bashir Magomedov (ANA) |
| | Assylzhan Yessengeldi (KAZ) |
| | Mezhlum Mezhlumyan (ARM) |
| | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) |
| 5 | Ivan Hramyka (ANA) |
| 5 | Akash Dahiya (UWW) |
| 7 | Julian Chlebove (USA) |
| 8 | Emre Kural (TUR) |
| 9 | Nika Zakashvili (GEO) |
| 10 | Jeyhun Allahverdiyev (AZE) |
| 11 | Besir Alili (MKD) |
| 12 | Kaito Morita (JPN) |
| 13 | Dylan Shawver (PUR) |
| 14 | Vasile Marcu (MDA) |
| 15 | Konstantin Gutsev (BUL) |
| 16 | Endrio Avdyli (ALB) |
| 17 | Garette Saunders (CAN) |
| 18 | Antonio Margiotta (PHI) |
| — | Andrii Dzhelep (UKR) |