Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 120 kg

Men's freestyle 120 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on 21 August at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.

Men's freestyle 120 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Date	21 August
Competitors	20 from 20 nations
Medalists
Bakhtiyar Akhmedov  Russia David Musuľbes  Slovakia Disney Rodríguez  Cuba Marid Mutalimov  Kazakhstan

Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman	Women
	55 kg	55 kg	48 kg
	60 kg	60 kg	55 kg
	66 kg	66 kg	63 kg
	74 kg	74 kg	72 kg
	84 kg	84 kg
	96 kg	96 kg
	120 kg	120 kg

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.

Each bout consists of up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scores more points in each round is the winner of that round; the bout ends when one wrestler has won two rounds (and thus the match).

On 5 April 2017, Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan was stripped of the gold medal due to a positive doping test.[1]