| Event: | Men's freestyle 96 kg |
| Games: | 2008 Summer |
| Venue: | China Agricultural University Gymnasium |
| Date: | 21 August 2008 |
| Competitors: | 19 |
| Nations: | 19 |
| Gold: | Shirvani Muradov |
| Goldnoc: | RUS |
| Silver: | Giorgi Gogshelidze |
| Silvernoc: | GEO |
| Bronze: | Michel Batista |
| Bronzenoc: | CUB |
| Bronze2: | Khetag Gazyumov |
| Bronzenoc2: | AZE |
| Prev: | 2004 |
| Next: | 2012 |
See main article: Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Men's freestyle 96 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, took place on 21 August at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium.
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 rounds; the bout ends when one wrestler has won two rounds (and thus the match).
All times are China Standard Time
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| 21 August 2008 | 09:30 | Qualification rounds | |||
| 16:00 | Repechage | ||||
| 17:00 | Finals |
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