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

The men's freestyle 61 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Belgrade, Serbia on 16 and 17 September 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 |
| Vito Arujau (USA) | 10 |
| Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN) | 9 |

### Top half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | Reza Atri (IRI) | 1 | | | | |
| Kodai Ogawa (JPN) | 10 | Kodai Ogawa (JPN) | 1 | | | | |
| Daniel Popov (ISR) | 0 | | | Kodai Ogawa (JPN) | 2 | | |
| Stilyan Iliev (BUL) | 6 | | | Vito Arujau (USA) | 8 | | |
| Nils Leutert (SUI) | 2 | Stilyan Iliev (BUL) | 0 | | | | |
| Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ) | 0 | Vito Arujau (USA) | 10 | | | | |
| Vito Arujau (USA) | 10 | | | | | Vito Arujau (USA) | 12 |
| | | | | | | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) | 2 |
| | | Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR) | 8 | | | | |
| Joey Silva (PUR) | 3 | Joey Silva (PUR) | 0 | | | | |
| Besir Alili (MKD) | 2 | | | Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR) | 2 | | |
| Song Hyeon-sik (KOR) | 2 | | | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) | 4 | | |
| Intigam Valizada (AZE) | 5 | Intigam Valizada (AZE) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) | 5$^F$ | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | Shota Phartenadze (GEO) | 5 | | | | |
| Norik Harutyunyan (ARM) | 0 | Andrei Bekreneu (AIN) | 0 | | | | |
| Andrei Bekreneu (AIN) | 5 | | | Shota Phartenadze (GEO) | 5 | | |
| Leonid Colesnic (MDA) | 5 | | | Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB) | 3 | | |
| Akash Dahiya (UWW) | 10 | Akash Dahiya (UWW) | 4 | | | | |
| Nick Lattanze (CAN) | | Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB) | 7$^F$ | | | | |
| Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB) | WO | | | | | Shota Phartenadze (GEO) | 0 |
| Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU) | 0 | | | | | Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN) | 10 |
| Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN) | 10 | Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN) | 12 | | | | |
| Li Weiyu (CHN) | 11 | Li Weiyu (CHN) | 0 | | | | |
| Abdelhak Kherbache (ALG) | 0 | | | Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN) | 16$^F$ | | |
| Kenneth Koech (KEN) | 0 | | | Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR) | 4 | | |
| Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR) | 10 | Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR) | 12 | | | | |
| | | Narmandakhyn Narankhüü (MGL) | 8 | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ) | 10 | Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ) | 3 | Kodai Ogawa (JPN) | 1 |
| Stilyan Iliev (BUL) | 0 | Kodai Ogawa (JPN) | 3 | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) | 2 |
| Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU) | 0 | Li Weiyu (CHN) | 0 | Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR) | 5 |
| Li Weiyu (CHN) | 11 | Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR) | 4$^F$ | Shota Phartenadze (GEO) | 5 |

## Final standing

| Rank | Athlete |
| | Vito Arujau (USA) |
| | Abasgadzhi Magomedov (AIN) |
| | Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu (KGZ) |
| | Shota Phartenadze (GEO) |
| 5 | Kodai Ogawa (JPN) |
| 5 | Valentyn Bliasetskyi (UKR) |
| 7 | Jahongirmirza Turobov (UZB) |
| 8 | Li Weiyu (CHN) |
| 9 | Ossimzhan Dastanbek (KAZ) |
| 10 | Emrah Ormanoğlu (TUR) |
| 11 | Akash Dahiya (UWW) |
| 12 | Stilyan Iliev (BUL) |
| 13 | Andrei Bekreneu (AIN) |
| 14 | Intigam Valizada (AZE) |
| 15 | Joey Silva (PUR) |
| 16 | Narmandakhyn Narankhüü (MGL) |
| 17 | Leonid Colesnic (MDA) |
| 18 | Besir Alili (MKD) |
| 19 | Song Hyeon-sik (KOR) |
| 20 | Nils Leutert (SUI) |
| 21 | Reza Atri (IRI) |
| 22 | Norik Harutyunyan (ARM) |
| 23 | Daniel Popov (ISR) |
| 24 | Kenneth Koech (KEN) |
| 25 | Abdelhak Kherbache (ALG) |
| 26 | Nikolay Okhlopkov (ROU) |
| — | Nick Lattanze (CAN) |