Kurash refers to a number of folk wrestling styles practiced in Central Asia. The English name comes from the term for "wrestling" in some Turkic language.
Mkhitar Manukyan is a retired Armenian-Kazakh Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 2004. He also won a world title in 1998 and 1999 and an Asian title in 1997 and 1999.
Mohammadqodir Abdullaev, best known as Muhammad Abdullaev, is an Uzbekistani former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2011, and challenged once for the WBO light-welterweight title in 2005. As an amateur he won gold medals in the light welterweight division at the 1999 World Championships and 2000 Olympics, where he served as the Olympic flag bearer for Uzbekistan.
Abbas Jadidi is an Iranian wrestler who competed in the Freestyle Heavyweight (90–100 kg) category at the 1996 Summer Olympics, losing to Kurt Angle and winning the silver medal. He won the 1993 FILA World Wrestling Championships, but later tested positive for a banned substance. He was stripped of the title and suspended from competing for two years for doping. He was elected as a member of Tehran City Council in 2013 local elections.
Maulen Mamyrov is a Kazakhstani wrestler. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the Men's Freestyle Flyweight (48–52 kg) category.
Over the centuries, Uzbekistan has had a tradition of fostering equestrians and wrestlers (palvins). Some of the sports that originate in the country are the kurash, which is a type of upright wrestling. Other types of wrestling are belbogli kurash, turon, and boyqurgan all having the same origins. Other popular sports in Uzbekistan are football, boxing, wrestling, and judo.
Kyoko Hamaguchi is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. She has won five FILA Wrestling World Championships and two Olympic Bronze medals in the 72 kg weight class.
Dilshod Mansurov is a male freestyle wrestler from Uzbekistan. He participated in Men's freestyle 55 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. He earned 4th place after losing the bronze medal fight with Besik Kudukhov.
Aydın Polatçı is a Turkish wrestler. He was born in Istanbul. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 2004. He also competed at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics.
Igor Borisowicz Kupiejew - Russian and Uzbek professional wrestler fighting freestyle. Three times took a part World Wrestling Championships, fourth in 1996. Seventh at Asian Games in 1998. Gold medal at Asian Championships in 1999, 2000. First place in FILA Wrestling World Cup in 1996. Has earned bronze medal in Junior World's Championships in 1992.
Ruslan Khinchagov is a former competitor in Freestyle Wrestling from Russia, who represented Uzbekistan. Ruslan competed in the 1996 Olympic Games and 2000 Olympic Games. He finished 15th in 1996 and 5th in 2000.
Michael Beilin is an Israeli former Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler.
Uzbekistan competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya, also known as Ravi Kumar or Ravi Dahiya, is an Indian freestyle wrestler who won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the 57 kg category. Dahiya is also a bronze medallist from 2019 World Wrestling Championships and a three-time Asian champion. In the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, he won the gold medal in the men's 57kg freestyle wrestling category at Birmingham, England.
Daniyar Kaisanov is a Kazakhstani freestyle wrestler. He is a two-time gold medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships, a silver medalist at the Asian Games and a bronze medalist at the World Wrestling Championships. He also represented Kazakhstan at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Wang Xiaoqian is a Chinese freestyle wrestler. In 2019, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 65 kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
Sirojiddin Khasanov is a Uzbekistani freestyle wrestler. He represented Uzbekistan at the 2018 Asian Games held in Indonesia and he won one of the bronze medals in the men's 65 kg event. He is also a silver medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships.
Mohammad Reza Geraei, is an Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler. At the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, he won the gold medal in the men's 67 kg event. In 2018, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's 67 kg event at the Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Gulomjon Abdullaev is an Uzbekistani freestyle wrestler who competes at 57 kilograms. A 2016 Junior World Championship bronze medalist, Abdullaev qualified to represent Uzbekistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics after sweeping out the 2021 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament.
Toshihiro Hasegawa is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. He won one of the bronze medals in the men's 61 kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.
