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Moon Eui-jae

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Moon Eui-jae
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 76 kg
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens 84 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1998 Tehran 76 kg
Silver medal – second place 2001 Sofia 76 kg
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 1998 Bangkok 76 kg
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan 84 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 1997 Tehran 76 kg

Moon Eui-jae (Korean문의제; Hanja文儀濟; born February 10, 1975) is a retired South Korean wrestler who won two Olympic silver medals in freestyle wrestling, Men's Freestyle 76 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics and Men's Freestyle 84 kg in Athens in 2004. In Sydney, he lost his semi-final and won the bronze medal match, but was awarded the silver medal later after the disqualification of Alexander Leipold due to a drug infraction. He was also runner-up at the World Championships in 1998 and 2001, and was gold medalist at the 1998 and 2002 Asian Games.

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