Heavyweight, Greco-Roman (≤96 kg), Men

Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia had won the silver medal at Athina in 2004, was the 2007 World Champion, and was a slight favorite, but he lost in the quarter-finals to Czech Marek Švec. The defending gold medalist, Egyptian Karam Gaber, also lost early, going out to Albanian Elis Guri. This left the tournament wide open and the final turned out to be a re-match of the 2008 European Championship, with Russian Aslanbek Khushtov faving German Mirko Englich. The result was the same, with Khushtov winning Olympic gold in Beijing.

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 November 2016 Aset Mambetov (KAZ) was revealed to have a positive test for stanozolol, and was disqualified, losing his bronze medal. The medal was re-assigned to Marek Švec of the Czech Republic, who originally lost to Mambetov in the repêchage final.