The men's Greco-Roman 87 kilograms competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, took place on 3–4 August 2021 at the Makuhari Messe in Mihama-ku. The qualification rounds were held on 3 August while medal matches were held on the 2nd day of the competition.
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.
Zhan Beleniuk from Ukraine won the gold medal after beating Viktor Lőrincz of Hungary 5–1 in the gold medal match. Beleniuk scored two points twice in the second period for the win.
On 21 November 2025, the Anti-Doping Section of the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that an original bronze medalist, Zurabi Datunashvili, had violated anti-doping rules by using a prohibited method and the falsification of test results: the Court imposed a five-year ban and ordered that all of Datunashvili's results since 27 May 2021 be deleted from the records.
Datunashvili's appeal was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and he was stripped of his medal. According to the IOC database, this bronze medal has not subsequently been reallocated; Croatia's Ivan Huklek stands next in line.
Schedule All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00) DateTimeEvent 3 August 2021 11:00 Qualification rounds 18:15 Semifinals 4 August 2021 11:00 Repechage 19:30 Finals
Results Legend F — Won by fall
Main bracket
Repechage
Final standing RankAthlete (not yet allocated)55789101112131415DQ
Zurabi Datunashvili of Serbia originally was a bronze medalist, but he was disqualified for anti-doping violations in November 2025.
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