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)
Stefan GRIGOROV (BUL)
Huoying SHI (CHN)
Filip BARTOSIK (CZE)
Vakhtang LOLUA (GEO)
LALIT (IND)
Payam AHMADI (IRI)
Kagetora OKAMOTO (JPN)
Iskhar KURBAYEV (KAZ)
Kutman KALBAEV (KGZ)
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)
Liguo CAO (CHN)
Mahmoud SAAD (EGY)
Jamal VALIZADEH (EOR)
Lucas LO GRASSO (FRA)
Dimitri KHACHIDZE (GEO)
Abdolmohammad PAPI (GER)
HARSH (IND)
Ali AHMADI VAFA (IRI)
Koto GOMI (JPN)
Yerbol KAMALIYEV (KAZ)
Kurmanbek ZHAPAROV (KGZ)
Dahyun KIM (KOR)
Justas PETRAVICIUS (LTU)
Razvan ARNAUT (ROU)
Anvar ALLAKHIAROV (RUS)
Georgij TIBILOV (SRB)
Aslamjon AZIZOV (TJK)
Enes BASAR (TUR)
Vladyslav KUZKO (UKR)
Dalton ROBERTS (USA)
Alisher GANIEV (UZB)

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)
Abu AMAEV (BUL)
Xinxin JIN (CHN)
Luis ORTA (CUB)
Gagik SNJOYAN (FRA)
Diego CHKHIKVADZE (GEO)
Christopher KRAEMER (GER)
Sachin SAHRAWAT (IND)
Saeid ESMAEILI (IRI)
Katsuaki ENDO (JPN)
Bagdat SABAZ (KAZ)
Razzak BEISHEKEEV (KGZ)
Hanjae CHUNG (KOR)
Yassine FARAJ (MAR)
Valentin PETIC (MDA)
Ilias LAAOUINA (NED)
Haavard JOERGENSEN (NOR)
Man Gwang SON (PRK)
Amer ALHAMMADI (QAT)
Daniial AGAEV (RUS)
Andreas VETSCH (SUI)
Niklas OEHLEN (SWE)
Shokhin KHOLNAZAROV (TJK)
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)
Ji LENG (CHN)
Julian HORTA (COL)
Pavel PUKLAVEC (CRO)
Mohamed KHALIL (EGY)
Iuri LOMADZE (GEO)
Jose VARELA (GUA)
Krisztian VANCZA (HUN)
Karanjit SINGH (IND)
Danial SOHRABI (IRI)
Rintaro SOGABE (JPN)
Almatbek AMANBEK (KAZ)
Amantur ISMAILOV (KGZ)
Gyeongtae KIM (KOR)
Mihai PETIC (MDA)
Mate Adri VAN OS (NED)
Nilton SOTO GARCIA (PER)
Aleksander MIELEWCZYK (POL)
Leonard IURASCU (ROU)
Mingiian GORIAEV (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)
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)
Lovepreet SINGH (IND)
Ali OSKOU (IRI)
Isami HORIKITA (JPN)
Merey MAULITKANOV (KAZ)
Yryskeldi MAKSATBEK UULU (KGZ)
Hyeonjin KANG (KOR)
Rokas CEPAUSKAS (LTU)
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)
Svetoslav NIKOLOV (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)
Ibragim MAGOMADOV (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)
Ihar YARASHEVICH (BLR)
Semen NOVIKOV (BUL)
Likui SHI (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)
Nursultan TURSYNOV (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)
Kiril MILOV (BUL)
Zegang WANG (CHN)
Matej MANDIC (CRO)
Gabriel ROSILLO (CUB)
Mohamed GABR (EGY)
Richard KARELSON (EST)
Roberti KOBLIASHVILI (GEO)
Anton VIEWEG (GER)
Alex SZOKE (HUN)
NITESH (IND)
Hadi SARAVI (IRI)
Takahiro TSURUDA (JPN)
Islam YEVLOYEV (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)
Ibrahim TIGCI (TUR)
Vladlen KOZLIUK (UKR)
Timothy YOUNG (USA)

130kg
Razmik KURDYAN (ARM)
Sarkhan MAMMADOV (AZE)
Pavel HLINCHUK (BLR)
Guilherme EVANGELISTA (BRA)
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)
Olzhas SYRLYBAY (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)