Heavyweight, Greco-Roman (≤97 kilograms), Men

This event would be the wrestling class at Tokyo that most closely followed pre-tournament predictions. All four seeds won the medals, with the first and second seed taking gold and silver, respectively.

The gold was won by ROC team member Musa Yevloyev, the #1 seed and the 2018 and 2019 World Champion, who had also won silver in 2017. Yevloyev was also European Champion in 2019 and 2021. In the final he defeated Armenian Artur Aleksanyan, who had lost to Yevloyev at the 2019 Worlds final, although Aleksanyan was the defending Olympic gold medallist and had three World titles, winning this class in 2014, 2015, and 2017. The final was a comfortable win for Yevloyev on points, 5-1.

The losing semi-finalists, who were seeded #3 and #4, were Poland’s Tadeusz Michalik and Iran’s Mohammadhadi Saravi, but Yevloyev and Aleksanyan handled both of them easily. They went to the repêchage final, where they secured bronze medals, Michalik winning by technical superiority over Hungarian Alex Szőke and Saravi defeating Finn Arvi Martin Savolainen on points.