Dauren Kurugliev
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| Native name | Даурен Халидович Куруглиев | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Dauren Khalidovich Kurugliev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Lezgin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 July 1992 Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Russia (until 2022)  Greece (2023-present) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 86 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Gamid Gamidova wrestling club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Gaidar Gaidarov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World finals | 5th (2018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regional finals |  (2017)
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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]
- 2011 Russian Junior Nationals Champion
- 2012 Golden Grand-Prix Ivan Yarygin Bronze Medalist – 84 kg
- 2013 Heydar Aliyev Memorial 5th – 84 kg
- 2013 Ramzan Kadyrov & Adlan Varayev Cup Silver Medalist – 84 kg
- 2013 Intercontinental Cup 5th – 84 kg
- 2014 Heydar Aliyev Memorial 10th – 86 kg
- 2014 Golden Grand-Prix Ivan Yarygin 8th – 86 kg
- 2014 Memorial Ali Aliyev 10th – 86 kg
- 2014 Intercontinental Cup Bronze Medalist – 86 kg
- 2014 Russian National Freestyle Wrestling 5th – 86 kg
- 2015 Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin Bronze Medalist - 86 kg
- 2015 Freestyle Wrestling World Cup 4th – 86 kg
- 2015 Russian National Freestyle Wrestling 11th – 86 kg
- 2015 Ali Aliyev Memorial runner-up – 86 kg
- 2015 Ramzan Kadyrov & Adlan Varayev Cup winner – 86 kg
- 2015 Intercontinental Cup winner – 86 kg
- 2016 Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin Bronze Medalist – 86 kg
- 2017 Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin Gold Medalist – 86 kg
- 2017 Yasar Dogu gold medalist – 86 kg
- 2017 European Championships Gold Medalist – 86 kg
- 2019 European Games Gold medalist – 86 kg
- 2023 European Championships Gold Medalist – 86 kg
- 2024 European Championships Gold Medalist – 86 kg
References[edit]
- ^ "Dauren Kurugliev". wrestdag.ru. Archived from the original on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
- ^ "Ali Aliyev memorial results". wrestdag.ru. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Даурен Куруглиев в шаге от третьего «золота» на чемпионатах Европы". riadagestan.ru. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
- ^ "2024 European Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ 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]
- Dauren Kurugliev at the International Wrestling Database
- Dauren Kurugliev at United World Wrestling
- Living people
- Russian people of Lezgian descent
- Sport wrestlers from Makhachkala
- 1992 births
- Russian male sport wrestlers
- Greek male sport wrestlers
- Naturalized citizens of Greece
- European Games gold medalists for Russia
- Wrestlers at the 2019 European Games
- European Games medalists in wrestling
- European Wrestling Championships medalists
- European Wrestling Champions