Lightweight, Freestyle (≤60 kg), Men

Mavlet Batyrov of Russia had won the 2004 gold medal as a featherweight, but moved up to lightweight and won the 2006 European and 2007 World Championships. Batyrov won his second gold medal in Beijing, defeating the defending gold medalist, Yandro Quintana of Cuba, in the second round, and the 2006 World Champion, Morad Mohammadi of Iran, in the semi-finals. He then faced Ukraine’s Vasyl Fedoryshyn, a three-time European Champion (2005, 2007-08), in the final. Batyrov won the gold medal with a straight period victory.

That was how the event and the results seemed to have ended. In 2015, however, the IOC began re-testing samples from the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics, using newer, more advanced testing techniques, in an effort to find those who had used performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), but in whom it could not be detected at the time of those Olympics. This was one of the many events affected.

In April 2017 Vasyl Fedoryshyn (UKR) was revealed to have a positive test for turinabol (dehydrochloromethyltestosterone) and stanozolol, and was disqualified, losing his silver medal. Japan’s Kenichi Yumoto was advanced to the silver medal position, and Kyrgyzstani wrestler Bazar Bazarguruyev was moved up to a bronze medal.