[1][2][3][4][5] The Azerbaijani wrestler, Rahim Hasanov, hit the Armenian athlete, Karapet Manvelyan, in the face after losing in the quarter-finals of the championship, when the latter was reaching out to him for a handshake.

The International Wrestling Federation disqualified Hasanov for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

[6] In the match between Solomon Manashvili of Georgia and Vakhit Galayev of Azerbaijan, the referees showed red cards to both wrestlers and disqualified them after a fight broke out after the end of the match.

Quarterfinal losers Volodymyr Kochanov of Ukraine and Martin Simonyan of Armenia played a semifinal match again.

All times are (UTC+2) *   Host nation (Romania)367 wrestlers from 33 countries participated: