Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 55 kg
| Men's freestyle 55 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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| Venue | China Agricultural University Gymnasium | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | 19 August | ||||||||||||||||
| Competitors | 19 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||||||
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Henry Cejudo |
 United States
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Tomohiro Matsunaga |
 Japan
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Radoslav Velikov |
 Bulgaria
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Besik Kudukhov |
 Russia
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Men's freestyle 55 kg competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on August 19 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.
This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winners of two bronze medals. The two finalists faced off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who lost to one of the two finalists moved 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.
Each bout consisted of up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scored more points in each round was the winner of that rounds; the bout finished when one wrestler had won two rounds (and thus the match).
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
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