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Dauren Kurugliev
Kurugliev in 2020
Personal information
Native nameДаурен Халидович Куруглиев
Full nameDauren Khalidovich Kurugliev
NationalityLezgin
Born (1992-07-12) 12 July 1992 (age 31)
Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Country Russia (until 2022)
 Greece (2023-present)
SportWrestling
Weight class86 kg
EventFreestyle
ClubGamid Gamidova wrestling club
Coached byGaidar Gaidarov
Achievements and titles
World finals5th (2018)
Regional finalsGold (2017)

Gold (2019)

Gold (2023)

Dauren Khalidovich Kurugliev (Russian: Даурен Халидович Куруглиев; 12 July 1992) is a Russian-Greek freestyle wrestler of Lezgin ethnicity. He is the 2019 European Games gold medalist and 3x European champion.

Sport career[edit]

Kurugliev won junior titles including the Russian Junior National Championships in 2011 and the North Caucasian Federal District championships in 2011 and 2013.[1] He competed in the World Cup 2015 in Los Angeles, California and won all three wrestling matches there; he defeated three-time NCAA All-American champion of the Penn State Nittany Lions Wrestling Ed Ruth from the United States (by fall), Usukhbaatar Purevee of Mongolia and Aleksandr Gostiev of Azerbaijan. After competing in the American World Cup, he lost in the second round of the 2015 Russian Freestyle Wrestling Championships and so quit his participation there. On 5 July 2015, he lost in the final of the Ali Aliyev Memorial, losing there to Shamil Kudiyamagomedov of Russia.[2]

In 2020, he won the gold medal in the men's 86 kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.[3][4] Since 2023 he started representing Greece in international level and won two European Championships in 2023 and 2024.[5][6]

He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[7] He was eliminated in his second match and he did not qualify for the Olympics.[7]

Championships and accomplishments[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Dauren Kurugliev". wrestdag.ru. Archived from the original on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Ali Aliyev memorial results". wrestdag.ru. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  3. ^ Shefferd, Neil (18 December 2020). "Russia close UWW Individual Championships in style with four more golds on final day". InsideTheGames.biz. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  4. ^ "2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Даурен Куруглиев в шаге от третьего «золота» на чемпионатах Европы". riadagestan.ru. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  6. ^ "2024 European Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  7. ^ a b "2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2024. Retrieved 8 April 2024.

External links[edit]

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