Men's freestyle 79 kg at the 2024 U23 World Championships
Venue	Tirana Olympic Park
Dates	26–27 October
Competitors	25 from 23 nations
Medalists
Mehdi Yousefi    Iran   Lu Feng    China   Masaki Sato    Japan   Arsen Balaian
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2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman	Women
	57 kg	55 kg	50 kg
	61 kg	60 kg	53 kg
	65 kg	63 kg	55 kg
	70 kg	67 kg	57 kg
	74 kg	72 kg	59 kg
	79 kg	77 kg	62 kg
	86 kg	82 kg	65 kg
	92 kg	87 kg	68 kg
	97 kg	97 kg	72 kg
	125 kg	130 kg	76 kg
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The men's freestyle 79 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2024 U23 World Wrestling Championships, and will be held in Tirana, Albania on 26 and 27 October 2024.^[1]

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.

Legend

• F — Won by fall

	Final
	Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	12
	Lu Feng (CHN)	5

	Round of 32				Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals
					Ivan Harashuk (UKR)	4
	Arjan Danaj (ALB)	0			Ali Tcokaev (AZE)	4
	Ali Tcokaev (AZE)	11							Ivan Harashuk (UKR)	0
	Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	11							Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	11
	Owen Martin (CAN)	0			Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	10
	Okan Tahtacı (TUR)	12			Raffaele Matrullo (ITA)	0
	Raffaele Matrullo (ITA)	14											Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)	12
													Masaki Sato (JPN)	1
					Umar Mavlaev (SUI)	0
	Mukhammad Abdullaev (KGZ)	0			Patrick Kennedy (USA)	9F
	Patrick Kennedy (USA)	11							Patrick Kennedy (USA)	6
	Masaki Sato (JPN)	5F							Masaki Sato (JPN)	8
	Artsiom Belavusau (ANA)	0			Masaki Sato (JPN)	10
					Joona Vuoti (FIN)	0

	Round of 32				Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals
					Sahil Dalal (IND)	0
	Mateusz Pedzicki (POL)	2			Arsen Balaian (ANA)	10
	Arsen Balaian (ANA)	13							Arsen Balaian (ANA)	6F
	Otari Adeishvili (GEO)	9							Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ)	1
	Radomir Stoyanov (BUL)	10			Radomir Stoyanov (BUL)	0
					Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ)	10
													Arsen Balaian (ANA)	2
													Lu Feng (CHN)	4
					Krisztian Biro (ROU)	1
	Hayk Papikyan (ARM)	4			Lu Feng (CHN)	3
	Lu Feng (CHN)	10							Lu Feng (CHN)	11
	Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)	12							Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)	0
	Gheorghi Cara (MDA)	10			Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)	16
					Juan Cardozo (COL)	6

	Repechage round 1				Repechage round 2				Bronze medals
	Owen Martin (CAN)	6			Ivan Harashuk (UKR)	2			Masaki Sato (JPN)	11
	Raffaele Matrullo (ITA)	5			Owen Martin (CAN)	9			Owen Martin (CAN)	0
	Hayk Papikyan (ARM)	4			Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)	4			Arsen Balaian (ANA)	9
	Krisztian Biro (ROU)	2			Hayk Papikyan (ARM)	8			Hayk Papikyan (ARM)	1

Rank	Athlete
	Mehdi Yousefi (IRI)
	Lu Feng (CHN)
	Masaki Sato (JPN)
	Arsen Balaian (ANA)
5	Owen Martin (CAN)
5	Hayk Papikyan (ARM)
7	Patrick Kennedy (USA)
8	Mohamed Abdelhady (EGY)
9	Ivan Harashuk (UKR)
10	Ali Tcokaev (AZE)
11	Zhengis Kanybekov (KAZ)
12	Raffaele Matrullo (ITA)
13	Radomir Stoyanov (BUL)
14	Krisztian Biro (ROU)
15	Okan Tahtacı (TUR)
16	Gheorghi Cara (MDA)
17	Otari Adeishvili (GEO)
18	Juan Cardozo (COL)
19	Mateusz Pedzicki (POL)
20	Artsiom Belavusau (ANA)
21	Umar Mavlaev (SUI)
22	Joona Vuoti (FIN)
23	Sahil Dalal (IND)
24	Arjan Danaj (ALB)
25	Mukhammad Abdullaev (KGZ)

• Draw