World Championships 2026: Greco-Roman Entries

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (October 6) -- The World Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan from October 24 to November 1 will kick-off with Greco-Roman.

Close to 300 Greco-Roman wrestlers will take part in the 10 weight classes with 40 medals on the line. Eight world champions are returning to defend their titles while 60kg, 63kg and 130kg will get new world champions. At 63kg, defending champion Aytjan KHALMAKHANOV (UZB) is entered but has moved up to 67kg.

Note: The entries are subject to change, 72 hours before the draws of of Greco-Roman.

55kg
Norayr HAKHOYAN (ARM)
Eldaniz AZIZLI (AZE)
Aleksandr GUREV (BLR)
Marat GARIPOV (BRA)
Huoying SHI (CHN)
Filip BARTOSIK (CZE)
Vakhtang LOLUA (GEO)
LALIT (IND)
Payam AHMADI (IRI)
Kagetora OKAMOTO (JPN)
Alpamys DASTANBEK (KAZ)
Jonghyeon KIM (KOR)
Artiom DELEANU (MDA)
Davaabandi MUNKH ERDENE (MGL)
Denis MIHAI (ROU)
Emin SEFERSHAEV (RUS)
Nazarmamad RAKHMONBEKOV (TJK)
Omer RECEP (TUR)
Koriun SAHRADIAN (UKR)
Max NOWRY (USA)
Ikhtiyor BOTIROV (UZB)

60kg
Abdelkarim FERGAT (ALG)
Suren AGHAJANYAN (ARM)
Murad MAMMADOV (AZE)
Haodong TAN (CHN)
Liguo CAO (CHN)
Mahmoud SAAD (EGY)
Lucas LO GRASSO (FRA)
Dimitri KHACHIDZE (GEO)
Abdolmohammad PAPI (GER)
SAHIL (IND)
Ali AHMADI VAFA (IRI)
Koto GOMI (JPN)
Yerbol KAMALIYEV (KAZ)
Kurmanbek ZHAPAROV (KGZ)
Dahyun KIM (KOR)
Justas PETRAVICIUS (LTU)
Abdallah DAHMANI (MAR)
Yazid GHARBI (MAR)
Razvan ARNAUT (ROU)
Anvar ALLAKHIAROV (RUS)
Georgij TIBILOV (SRB)
Aslamjon AZIZOV (TJK)
Rasul JORAYEV (TKM)
Enes BASAR (TUR)
Vladyslav KUZKO (UKR)
Dalton ROBERTS (USA)
Jamal VALIZADEH (UWW)
Alisher GANIEV (UZB)
Raiber RODRIGUEZ (VEN)

63kg
Abdeldjebar DJEBBARI (ALG)
Karen ASLANYAN (ARM)
Nihat MAMMADLI (AZE)
Yunlong HU (CHN)
Kevin DE ARMAS (CUB)
Tino OJALA (FIN)
Pridon ABULADZE (GEO)
Sunny KUMAR (IND)
Mohammad KESHTKAR (IRI)
Kaisei TANABE (JPN)
Takuro MATSUBARA (JPN)
Daulet ASHIRKHANOV (KAZ)
Aftandil TAALAIBEK UULU (KGZ)
Hyunwoong CHOI (KOR)
Aleksandrs JURKJANS (LAT)
Corneliu RUSU (MDA)
Morten THORESEN (NOR)
Mairbek SALIMOV (POL)
Chan KIM (PRK)
Aref MOHAMMADI (QAT)
Sergey EMELIN (RUS)
Azatjan ACHILOV (TKM)
Kerem KAMAL (TUR)
Maksym LIU (UKR)
Xavier JOHNSON (USA)
Ozodbek KHALIMBOEV (UZB)

67kg
Fayssal BENFREDJ (ALG)
Slavik GALSTYAN (ARM)
Tsuchika SHIMOYAMADA (AUS)
Aker SCHMID AL OBAIDI (AUT)
Hasrat JAFAROV (AZE)
Mingqiang YAN (CHN)
Xinxin JIN (CHN)
Luis ORTA (CUB)
Gagik SNJOYAN (FRA)
Diego CHKHIKVADZE (GEO)
Christopher KRAEMER (GER)
Sachin SAHRAWAT (IND)
Saeid ESMAEILI (IRI)
Katsuaki ENDO (JPN)
Din KOSHKAR (KAZ)
Razzak BEISHEKEEV (KGZ)
Hanjae CHUNG (KOR)
Yassine FARAJ (MAR)
Valentin PETIC (MDA)
Ilias LAAOUINA (NED)
Haavard JOERGENSEN (NOR)
Nilton SOTO GARCIA (PER)
Man Gwang SON (PRK)
Amer ALHAMMADI (QAT)
Daniial AGAEV (RUS)
Andreas VETSCH (SUI)
Niklas OEHLEN (SWE)
Shokhin KHOLNAZAROV (TJK)
Kakabay KAKABAYEV (TKM)
Murat FIRAT (TUR)
Oleksandr HRUSHYN (UKR)
Otto BLACK (USA)
Aytjan KHALMAKHANOV (UZB)

72kg
Ashot KHACHATRYAN (ARM)
Ulvu GANIZADE (AZE)
Aliaksandr LIAVONCHYK (BLR)
Dimitar GEORGIEV (BUL)
Nestor ALMANZA (CHI)
Dongyu LI (CHN)
Ji LENG (CHN)
Julian HORTA (COL)
Pavel PUKLAVEC (CRO)
Mohamed KHALIL (EGY)
Iuri LOMADZE (GEO)
Jose VARELA (GUA)
Krisztian VANCZA (HUN)
ANIL (IND)
Danial SOHRABI (IRI)
Rintaro SOGABE (JPN)
Nikolay KHAPKO (KAZ)
Amantur ISMAILOV (KGZ)
Gyeongtae KIM (KOR)
Mihai PETIC (MDA)
Mate Adri VAN OS (NED)
Aleksander MIELEWCZYK (POL)
Leonard IURASCU (ROU)
Rabil ASKEROV (RUS)
Henrik DAHLEN (SWE)
Cengiz ARSLAN (TUR)
Parviz NASIBOV (UKR)
Benjamin PEAK (USA)
Abror ATABAEV (UZB)

77kg
Chawki DOULACHE (ALG)
Malkhas AMOYAN (ARM)
Sanan SULEYMANOV (AZE)
Shuai MAMEDAU (BLR)
Joilson DE BRITO (BRA)
Stoyan KUBATOV (BUL)
Rui LIU (CHN)
Wenhao HU (CHN)
Jair Alexis CUERO (COL)
Antonio KAMENJASEVIC (CRO)
Marcos SANCHEZ (ESP)
Jonni SARKKINEN (FIN)
Ibrahim GHANEM (FRA)
Ramaz ZOIDZE (GEO)
Samuel BELLSCHEIDT (GER)
David CHOC HUOC (GUA)
Oscar BARRIOS (HON)
Robert FRITSCH (HUN)
AMAN (IND)
Ali OSKOU (IRI)
Isami HORIKITA (JPN)
Kaharman KISSYMETOV (KAZ)
Yryskeldi MAKSATBEK UULU (KGZ)
Hyeonjin KANG (KOR)
Rokas CEPAUSKAS (LTU)
Yassine CHEKLY (MAR)
Alexandrin GUTU (MDA)
Sergei KUTUZOV (RUS)
Ali ARSALAN (SRB)
Karl BAFF (SWE)
Lai Hsing YAO (TPE)
Ahmet YILMAZ (TUR)
Oleh KHALILOV (UKR)
Joel ADAMS (USA)
Doniyorkhon NAKIBOV (UZB)

82kg
Samvel GRIGORYAN (ARM)
Gurban GURBANOV (AZE)
Aik MNATSAKANIAN (BUL)
Eduardo BERNAL (CHI)
Halishan BAHEJIANG (CHN)
Karlo KODRIC (CRO)
Emad ABOUELATTA (EGY)
Gela BOLKVADZE (GEO)
Zoltan LEVAI (HUN)
PRINCE (IND)
Gholamreza FAROKHI (IRI)
Luca DARIOZZI (ITA)
Tatsuya FUJII (JPN)
Dias KALEN (KAZ)
Akzhol MAKHMUDOV (KGZ)
Bada LEE (KOR)
Mihail BRADU (MDA)
Shahin BADAGHIMOFRAD (QAT)
Gamzat GADZHIEV (RUS)
Viktor NEMES (SRB)
Albin OLOFSSON (SWE)
Yuksel SARICICEK (TUR)
Mykyta POLITAIEV (UKR)
Kamal BEY (USA)
Jalgasbay BERDIMURATOV (UZB)

87kg
Bachir SID AZARA (ALG)
Gevorg TADEVOSYAN (ARM)
Latana Iuta SOPA (ASA)
Erion RAMLJAK (AUS)
Islam ABBASOV (AZE)
Ilya BITSEYEU (BLR)
Likui SHI (CHN)
Talimubieke AYIDINGBIEKE (CHN)
Ivan HUKLEK (CRO)
Daniel GREGORICH (CUB)
Mohamed DYAB (EGY)
Vladimeri KARCHAIDZE (FRA)
Lasha GOBADZE (GEO)
Tamas LEVAI (HUN)
Sunil KUMAR (IND)
Alireza MOHMADI (IRI)
Soh SAKABE (JPN)
Timur OSPANOV (KAZ)
Azat SALIDINOV (KGZ)
Seunghwan LEE (KOR)
Batbayar TSOGTBAATAR (MGL)
Exauce MUKUBU (NOR)
Arkadiusz KULYNYCZ (POL)
Jafar KHAN (QAT)
Milad ALIRZAEV (RUS)
Aleksandr KOMAROV (SRB)
Aleksandar STJEPANETIC (SWE)
Ali CENGIZ (TUR)
Yaroslav FILCHAKOV (UKR)
Beka MELELASHVILI (USA)
Mukhammadkodir RASULOV (UZB)
Luis AVENDANO (VEN)

97kg
Fadi ROUABAH (ALG)
Hayk KHLOYAN (ARM)
Markus RAGGINGER (AUT)
Murad AHMADIYEV (AZE)
Kiryl MASKEVICH (BLR)
Houzhi HAO (CHN)
Zegang WANG (CHN)
Matej MANDIC (CRO)
Gabriel ROSILLO (CUB)
Mohamed GABR (EGY)
Richard KARELSON (EST)
Arvi SAVOLAINEN (FIN)
Roberti KOBLIASHVILI (GEO)
Lucas LAZOGIANIS (GER)
Alex SZOKE (HUN)
NITESH (IND)
Hadi SARAVI (IRI)
Takahiro TSURUDA (JPN)
Iussuf MATSIYEV (KAZ)
Uzur DZHUZUPBEKOV (KGZ)
Jeongbin KWON (KOR)
Mindaugas VENCKAITIS (LTU)
Hamza BOUMADIENE (MAR)
Gankhuyag GANBAATAR (MGL)
Artur SARGSIAN (RUS)
Mihail KAJAIA (SRB)
Alex BJURBERG (SWE)
Amanberdi AGAMAMMEDOV (TKM)
Ibrahim TIGCI (TUR)
Vladlen KOZLIUK (UKR)
Timothy YOUNG (USA)

130kg
Razmik KURDYAN (ARM)
Beka KANDELAKI (AZE)
Pavel HLINCHUK (BLR)
Guilherme EVANGELISTA (BRA)
Lingzhe MENG (CHN)
Wenhao JIANG (CHN)
Artur SARKISJAN (CZE)
Abdellatif MOHAMED (EGY)
Heiki NABI (EST)
Matti KUOSMANEN (FIN)
Sulkhan BUIDZE (GEO)
Franz RICHTER (GER)
Gino AVILA DILBERT (HON)
Darius VITEK (HUN)
Joginder RATHEE (IND)
Fardin HEDAYATI (IRI)
Danila SOTNIKOV (ITA)
Yuta NARA (JPN)
Alimkhan SYZDYKOV (KAZ)
Ilkham TOKHTAEV (KGZ)
Minseok KIM (KOR)
Romas FRIDRIKAS (LTU)
Sergei SEMENOV (RUS)
Riza KAYAALP (TUR)
Mykhailo VYSHNYVETSKYI (UKR)
Cohlton SCHULTZ (USA)
Rafael TSITSUASHVILI (UZB)
Moises PEREZ (VEN)