World Championships 2026: Freestyle Entries

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (October 7) -- The 2026 World Championships will feature 320 wrestlers in Freestyle from October 24 to November 1 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Eight returning world champions are set to defend their world titles in Astana.

Note: World Championships entries are subject to change 72 hours before the draw of the respective style 

57kg
Mouadh CHIBANI (ALG)
Makaya KATENDI (ANG)
Manvel KHNDZRTSYAN (ARM)
Islam BAZARGANOV (AZE)
Aryan TSIUTRYN (BLR)
Timothy LEVINE (CAN)
Qingkan XIE (CHN)
Roland TAMBI NFORSONG (CMR)
Sulayman BAH (GAM)
Diamantino IUNA FAFE (GBS)
Roberti DINGASHVILI (GEO)
Niklas STECHELE (GER)
Edwin SEGURA GUERRA (GUA)
Isaac WONG (HKG)
ANKUSH (IND)
Milad VALIZADEH (IRI)
Yamato OGAWA (JPN)
Meirambek KARTBAY (KAZ)
Abdymalik KARACHOV (KGZ)
Minhyeok YUN (KOR)
Andrei VITAN (MDA)
Roman BRAVO YOUNG (MEX)
Munkh Erdene BATKHUYAG (MGL)
Vladimir EGOROV (MKD)
John LEOPOLD (MRI)
Chong Song HAN (PRK)
Darian Toi CRUZ (PUR)
Abubakar MUTALIEV (RUS)
Azamat TUSKAEV (SRB)
Thomas EPP (SUI)
Aiaal BELOLYUBSKII (TJK)
Muhammet KARAVUS (TUR)
Roman HUTSULIAK (UKR)
Spencer LEE (USA)
Asadbek SAIDTURAEV (UZB)
Pedro MEJIAS (VEN)

61kg
Zelimkhan ABAKAROV (ALB)
Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM)
Georgii OKOROKOV (AUS)
Nuraddin NOVRUZOV (AZE)
Dzmitry SHAMELA (BLR)
Roger DOS SANTOS (BRA)
Mikyay NAIM (BUL)
Wanhao ZOU (CHN)
Hassan ELSAYED (EGY)
Giorgi GONIASHVILI (GEO)
Horst LEHR (GER)
AMAN (IND)
Ahmad JAVAN (IRI)
Toshihiro HASEGAWA (JPN)
Assyl AITAKYN (KAZ)
Nurdanat AITANOV (KAZ)
Omurbek ASAN UULU (KGZ)
Changsu KIM (KOR)
Leomid COLESNIC (MDA)
Derek GUANAJUATO (MEX)
Batnasan GANKHULEG (MGL)
Besir ALILI (MKD)
Kwang Myong KIM (PRK)
Caleb SMITH (PUR)
Zavur UGUEV (RUS)
Nils LEUTERT (SUI)
Emrah ORMANOGLU (TUR)
Kamil KERYMOV (UKR)
Marcus BLAZE (USA)
Gulomjon ABDULLAEV (UZB)

65kg
Oussama LARIBI (ALG)
Agustin DESTRIBATS (ARG)
Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM)
Rashid BABAZADE (AZE)
Shannon HANNA (BAH)
Ayub MUSAEV (BEL)
Islam GUSEINOV (BLR)
Alibeg ALIBEGOV (BRN)
Shamil MAMEDOV (BUL)
Peiman BIABANI (CAN)
Raby BAPELEKIA (CGO)
Zezhong SUN (CHN)
Quentin STICKER (FRA)
Nika ZAKASHVILI (GEO)
Nico MEGERLE (GER)
SUJEET (IND)
Rahman AMOUZAD (IRI)
Kaisei TANABE (JPN)
Ossimzhan DASTANBEK (KAZ)
Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)
O Seong HAN (KOR)
Stefan TONU (MDA)
Zeneemeder BYAMBASUREN (MGL)
Stephen AKINTEWE (NGR)
Joseph SILVA (PUR)
Stefan COMAN (ROU)
Abasgadzhi MAGOMEDOV (RUS)
Nino LEUTERT (SUI)
Abdulmazhid KUDIEV (TJK)
Ahmet DUMAN (TUR)
Andrii DZHELEP (UKR)
Bowen BASSETT (USA)
Umidjon JALOLOV (UZB)

70kg
Arman ANDREASYAN (ARM)
Kanan HEYBATOV (AZE)
Muhammad ABDURACHMANOV (BEL)
Lachlan MCNEIL (CAN)
Xuexian OU (CHN)
Mohamed AHMED (EGY)
Wotna Cana NDOC (GBS)
Akaki KEMERTELIDZE (GEO)
Iszmail MUSZUKAJEV (HUN)
ABHIMANYOU (IND)
Sina KHALILI (IRI)
Yuma TOMIYAMA (JPN)
Sanzhar DOSZHANOV (KAZ)
Eugine OMULULE (KEN)
Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ)
Kangho CHOE (KOR)
Vasile DIACON (MDA)
Tulga TUMUR OCHIR (MGL)
Ismael AYOUB (PUR)
Ibragim IBRAGIMOV (RUS)
Mustafo AKHMEDOV (TJK)
Ferhat KILIC (TUR)
Vasyl SHUPTAR (UKR)
Zain RETHERFORD (USA)
Shakhzodbek YARASHEV (UZB)

74kg
Narek HARUTYUNYAN (ARM)
Turan BAYRAMOV (AZE)
Ibragim VELIEV (BEL)
Nikita DMITRIJEVS MAYEUSKI (BLR)
Magomedrasul ASLUEV (BRN)
Stone LEWIS (CAN)
Erihetu BAYIN (CHN)
Jacques MONTY MBOUGOU (CMR)
Mohammad MOTTAGHINIA (ESP)
Caetano SA (GBS)
Giorgi ELBAKIDZE (GEO)
Hong Ki LEUNG (HKG)
Murad KURAMAGOMEDOV (HUN)
JAIDEEP (IND)
Amirmohammad YAZDANI (IRI)
Yoshinosuke AOYAGI (JPN)
Nurkozha KAIPANOV (KAZ)
Orozobek TOKTOMAMBETOV (KGZ)
Jin su JEON (KOR)
Egzon XHONI (KOS)
Omar LAMBARRAA (MAR)
Constantin CHIRILOV (MDA)
Gan Erdene BAATARKHUU (MGL)
Fati VEJSELI (MKD)
Ebierelayefa ANDREW (NGR)
Kamil RYBICKI (POL)
Maxim FRICATEL (ROU)
Inalbek SHERIEV (RUS)
Alfred DANIEL (SLE)
Tajmuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK)
Viktor RASSADIN (TJK)
Cuneyt BUDAK (TUR)
Valentyn HRYHORYSHYN (UKR)
James GREEN (USA)
Farhad NOURI (UWW)
Razambek JAMALOV (UZB)
Ibsen AGUILAR (VEN)

79kg
Abdelkader IKKAL (ALG)
Dzhabrail GADZHIEV (AZE)
Mahamedkhabib KADZIMAHAMEDAU (BLR)
Cesar BORDEAUX (BRA)
Connor CHURCH (CAN)
Feng LU (CHN)
Geannis GARZON (CUB)
Luka CHKHITUNIDZE (GEO)
Sandeep MANN (IND)
Mohammad NOKHODI (IRI)
Erzo ISAKOV (JOR)
Keyvan GHAREHDAGHI (JPN)
Shamsat TAIR (KAZ)
Mathayo MAHABILA (KEN)
Zhakshylyk BAITASHOV (KGZ)
Sungho LEE (KOR)
Alans AMIROVS (LAT)
Mohammed BOUAZOUNI (MAR)
Lilian BALAN (MDA)
Suldkhuu OLONBAYAR (MGL)
J R LEBAN (MHL)
Rasul SHAPIEV (MKD)
Szymon WOJTKOWSKI (POL)
Michael LABRIOLA (PUR)
Ismail KHANIEV (RUS)
Akhsarbek GULAEV (SVK)
Somonjon IKROMOV (TJK)
Okan TAHTACI (TUR)
Bohdan OLIINYK (UKR)
Levi HAINES (USA)
Mirzo KHAYITOV (UZB)

86kg
Fateh BENFERDJALLAH (ALG)
Jorge LLANO (ARG)
Simon MARCHL (AUT)
Arsenii DZHIOEV (AZE)
Khidir SAIPUDINOV (BRN)
Magomed RAMAZANOV (BUL)
Owen MARTIN (CAN)
Nan CAO (CHN)
Christopher FOCA MEJIA (DOM)
Ahmed Gamal MOHAMED (EGY)
Gabriel IGLESIAS RAMOS (ESP)
Miko ELKALA (FIN)
Rakhim MAGAMADOV (FRA)
Vladimeri GAMKRELIDZE (GEO)
Joshua MORODION (GER)
Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS (GRE)
Alvin PAO (HKG)
Kamran GHASEMPOUR (IRI)
Natsura OKAZAWA (JPN)
Bolat SAKAYEV (KAZ)
Malik SHAVAEV (KGZ)
Ivars SAMUSONOKS (LAT)
Paulius LESCAUSKAS (LTU)
Mohamed EL MEKKAOUI (MAR)
Traian CAPATINA (MDA)
Batbilguun NAADAMBAT (MGL)
Arcmen WILLIS (NRU)
Angel CORTES BONILLA (PAN)
Ethan RAMOS (PUR)
Krisztian BIRO (ROU)
Ibragim KADIEV (RUS)
Weng CHOW (SGP)
Gabriel MC DUFFIE (SLE)
Umar MAVLAEV (SUI)
Boris MAKOEV (SVK)
Soltan BEGENJOV (TKM)
Ismail KUCUKSOLAK (TUR)
Valentyn BABII (UKR)
Kyle DAKE (USA)
Bobur ISLOMOV (UZB)

92kg
Ali TCOKAEV (AZE)
Magomed SHARIPOV (BRN)
Ahmed BATAEV (BUL)
Koen POIRIER (CAN)
Suhe GANG (CHN)
Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO)
Dauren KURUGLIEV (GRE)
Punit KUMAR (IND)
Amirhossein FIROUZPOUR (IRI)
Sorato KANAZAWA (JPN)
Azamat DAULETBEKOV (KAZ)
Iakov CHAPLIN (KGZ)
Seohyun CHA (KOR)
Domantas PAULIUSCENKO (LTU)
Ion DEMIAN (MDA)
Ganbat TSERENPUNTSAG (MGL)
Redjep HAJDARI (MKD)
Jesaia UERA (NRU)
Shane JONES (PUR)
Amanula GADZHIMAGOMEDOV (RUS)
Samuel SCHERRER (SUI)
Fatih ALTUNBAS (TUR)
Mukhammed ALIIEV (UKR)
Trent HIDLAY (USA)

97kg
Thomas BARNS (AUS)
Benjamin GREIL (AUT)
Magomedkhan MAGOMEDOV (AZE)
Aliaksandr HUSHTYN (BLR)
Akhmed TAZHUDINOV (BRN)
Akhmed MAGAMAEV (BUL)
Junpeng ZHOU (CHN)
Pengfei SHAO (CHN)
Cedric ABOSSOLO (CMR)
Arturo SILOT TORRES (CUB)
Givi MATCHARASHVILI (GEO)
Gennadij CUDINOVIC (GER)
Richard VEGH (HUN)
VICKY (IND)
Hassan YAZDANI (IRI)
Benjamin HONIS (ITA)
Arash YOSHIDA (JPN)
Rizabek AITMUKHAN (KAZ)
Kanybek ABDULKHAIROV (KGZ)
Pureun KIM (KOR)
Radu LEFTER (MDA)
Demchigdorj TUMURBAATAR (MGL)
Triloki YADAV (NEP)
Harrison ONOVWIOMOGBOHWO (NGR)
Zbigniew Mateusz BARANOWSKI (POL)
Abdulrashid SADULAEV (RUS)
Batyrbek TSAKULOV (SVK)
Shatlyk HEMELYAYEV (TKM)
Alperen TOKGOZ (TUR)
Vasyl SOVA (UKR)
Kyle SNYDER (USA)
Sherzod POYONOV (UZB)
Cristian SARCO (VEN)

125kg
Giorgi MESHVILDISHVILI (AZE)
Dzianis KHRAMIANKOU (BLR)
Gabriel DE SOUSA (BRA)
Shamil SHARIPOV (BRN)
Georgi IVANOV (BUL)
Karanveer MAHIL (CAN)
BUHEEERDUN (CHN)
Aleksandre ABRAMISHVILI (GEO)
Mohsen SIYAR (GER)
Issah FUSEINI (GHA)
Azamat KHOSONOV (GRE)
Vlagyiszlav BAJCAJEV (HUN)
DINESH (IND)
Amir Hossein ZARE (IRI)
Aaron JOHNSON (JAM)
Taiki YAMAMOTO (JPN)
Yedige KASSIMBEK (KAZ)
Joel TUKAI (KEN)
Arslanbek TURDUBEKOV (KGZ)
Gwanuk KIM (KOR)
Oussama ASSAD (MAR)
Gheorghe ERHAN (MDA)
Nambardagva BATBAYAR (MGL)
Robert BARAN (POL)
Jonovan SMITH (PUR)
Omar Ihab SAREM (ROU)
Abdulla KURBANOV (RUS)
Zyyamuhammet SAPAROV (TKM)
Hakan BUYUKCINGIL (TUR)
Yurii IDZINSKYI (UKR)
Wyatt HENDRICKSON (USA)
Sardorbek KHOLMATOV (UZB)
Jose DIAZ (VEN)