Men's Freestyle Seeds for the 2025 Senior World Championships

The 2025 Senior World Championships are right around the corner. The tournament will be held in Zagreb, Croatia and run from September 13th-21st. Action will begin in the men’s freestyle tournament with 61, 70, 86, and 125 kg getting underway on Saturday the 13th. 

Since the tournament starts with men’s freestyle, it’s only fitting that UWW released men’s freestyle seeds on Monday. They are as follows below:

57kg

Seeded

Spencer LEE (USA) #1

Gulomjon ABDULLAEV (UZB) #2

AMAN (IND) #3

Roman BRAVO YOUNG (MEX) #4

Darian CRUZ (PUR) #5

Bekzat ALMAZ UULU (KGZ) #6

Islam BAZARGANOV (AZE) #7

Munkh Erdene BATKHUYAG (MGL) #8

Unseeded

Salah KATEB (ALG)

Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM)

Ivaylo TISOV (BUL)

Garette SAUNDERS (CAN)

Chengtao WANG (CHN)

Roland TAMBI NFORSONG (CMR)

Rabby KILANDI (COD)

Peter HAMMER CUDE (CRC)

Guesseppe REA VILLARROEL (ECU)

Roberti DINGASHVILI (GEO)

Niklas STECHELE (GER)

Ali Hossein MOMENI (IRI)

Husein ALBEHADILALBORS (IRQ)

Rin SAKAMOTO (JPN)

Adilet ALMUKHAMEDOV (KAZ)

Sunggwon KIM (KOR)

Vladimir EGOROV (MKD)

Chongsong HAN (PRK)

Azamat TUSKAEV (SRB)

Thomas EPP (SUI)

Aiaal BELOLYUBSKII (TJK)

Yusuf DEMIR (TUR)

Vladyslav ABRAMOV (UKR)

Musa MEKHTIKHANOV (UWW)

Aryan TSIUTRYN (UWW)

61kg

Seeded

Zavur UGUEV (UWW) #1

Giorgi GONIASHVILI (GEO) #2

Takara SUDA (JPN) #3

UDIT (IND) #4

Leomid COLESNIC (MDA) #5

Dzmitry SHAMELA (UWW) #6

Nils LEUTERT (SUI) #7

Joshua KRAMER (ECU) #8

Unseeded

Zelimkhan ABAKAROV (ALB)

Manvel KHNDZRTSYAN (ARM)

Georgii OKOROKOVV (AUS)

Jeyhun ALLAHVERDIYEV (AZE)

Jianhao LIU (CHN)

Ndjidda BOUBA (CMR)

Godefroid KALUBI (COD)

Ahmad  JAVAN (IRI)

Simone PIRODDU (ITA)

Adil OSPANOV (KAZ)

Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)

Sangboum HAN (KOR)

Tuvshintulga TUMENBILEG (MGL)

Besir ALILI (MKD)

Ali ABURUMAILA (PLE)

Kum Hyok KIM (PRK)

Dylan SHAWVER (PUR)

Emrah ORMANOGLU (TUR)

Kamil KERYMOV (UKR)

Jaxen FORREST (USA)

Ibrahim GUZAN (YEM)

65kg

Seeded

Rahman AMOUZAD (IRI) #1

Kotaro KIYOOKA (JPN) #2

Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM) #3

Ali RAHIMZADA (AZE) #4

Khamzat ARSAMERZOUEV (FRA) #5

Sebastian RIVERA (PUR) #6

Ibragim IBRAGIMOV (UWW) #7

SUJEET (IND) #8

Unseeded

Ayub MUSAEV (BEL)

Alibeg ALIBEGOV (BRN)

Mikyay NAIM (BUL)

Peiman BIABANI (CAN)

Tao WEI (CHN)

Roland KALAMBAYI (COD)

Goderdzi DZEBISASHVILI (GEO)

Nico MEGERLE (GER)

Mohammed KAREEM (IRQ)

Colin REALBUTO (ITA)

Nachyn KUULAR (KAZ)

Ikromzhon KHADZHIMURODOV (KGZ)

Junsik YUN (KOR)

Maxim SACULTAN (MDA)

Gantulga BATBAATAR (MGL)

Stephen IZOLO (NGR)

Abdullah ASSAF (PLE)

Krzysztof BIENKOWSKI (POL)

Kwang Jin KIM (PRK)

Daniel SANDU (ROU)

Nino LEUTERT (SUI)

Abdulmazhid KUDIEV (TJK)

Cabbar DUYUM (TUR)

Andrii BILIICHUK (UKR)

Real WOODS (USA)

Islam GUSEINOV (UWW)

Umidjon JALOLOV (UZB)

Wilfredo RODRIGUEZ (VEN)

70kg

Seeded

Yoshinosuke AOYAGI (JPN) #1

Akaki KEMERTELIDZE (GEO) #2

Nurkozha KAIPANOV (KAZ) #3

Kanan HEYBATOV (AZE) #4

Arman ANDREASYAN (ARM) #5

Austin GOMEZ (MEX) #6

Vasile DIACON (MDA) #7

Iszmail MUSZUKAJEV (HUN) #8

Unseeded

Islam DUDAEV (ALB)

Shannon HANNA (BAH)

Mihail GEORGIEV (BUL)

Michael ZALE (CAN)

Jorge GATICA (CHI)

Shuang CHEN (CHN)

Gabriel MUANDA (COD)

Anthony WESLEY (CPV)

ROHIT (IND)

Amirmohammad YAZDANI (IRI)

Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ)

Yongseok JEONG (KOR)

Tulga TUMUR OCHIR (MGL)

Viktor VOINOVIC (SRB)

Viktor RASSADIN (TJK)

Khairiddine BEN TLILI (TUN)

Haydar YAVUZ (TUR)

Oleksii BORUTA (UKR)

PJ DUKE (USA)

Saiyn KAZYRYK (UWW)

Begijon KULDASHEV (UZB)

74kg

Seeded

Chermen VALIEV (ALB) #1

Taimuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK) #2

Yones EMAMI (IRI) #3

Orozobek TOKTOMAMBETOV (KGZ) #4

Murad KURAMAGOMEDOV (HUN) #5

Giorgi ELBAKIDZE (GEO) #6

Magomedrasul ASLUEV (BRN) #7

Feng LU (CHN) #8

Unseeded

Hrayr ALIKHANYAN (ARM)

Turan BAYRAMOV (AZE)

Ibragim VELIEV (BEL)

Renato DA SILVA (BRA)

Ramazan RAMAZANOV (BUL)

Adam THOMSON (CAN)

Norvil BUKASA (COD)

Vedran LUKETIN (CRO)

Mohammad MOTTAGHINIA (ESP)

Vikash KUMAR (IND)

Luca FINIZIO (ITA)

Kota TAKAHASHI (JPN)

Alibek ABDIKASSYMOV (KAZ)

Daegil HAN (KOR)

Egzon XHONI (KOS)

Ion MARCU (MDA)

Cristian SANTIAGO (MEX)

Tugsjargal ERDENEBAT (MGL)

Rasul SHAPIEV (MKD)

Kamil RYBICKI (POL)

Ok Chol HAN (PRK)

Soner DEMIRTAS (TUR)

Ivan KUSYAK (UKR)

David CARR (USA)

Vitali IHNATOVICH (UWW)

Zaurbek SIDAKOV (UWW)

Mirzo KHAYITOV (UZB)

Anthony MONTERO (VEN)

79kg

Seeded

Akhsarbek GULAEV (SVK) #1

Suldkhuu OLONBAYAR (MGL) #2

Vladimeri GAMKRELIDZE (GEO) #3

Magomet EVLOEV (TJK) #4

Mohammad NOKHODI (IRI) #5

Daulet YERGESH (KAZ) #6

Khidir SAIPUDINOV (BRN) #7

Zelimkhan KHADJIEV (FRA) #8

Unseeded

Abdelkader IKKAL (ALG)

Dzhabrail GADZHIEV (AZE)

Patrik LEDER (CAN)

Tu Erxun AHEIYOU (CHN)

Andy MUKENDI (COD)

Marko NIKOLIC (CRO)

Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS (GRE)

AMIT (IND)

Ryunosuke KAMIYA (JPN)

Bumgue SEO (KOR)

Alans AMIROVS (LAT)

Vlad STRATAN (MDA)

Dejan MITROV (MKD)

Michael LABRIOLA (PUR)

Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU)

Alfred DANIEL (SLE)

Azymberdi SAPAROV (TKM)

Ibrahim YAPRAK (TUR)

Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR)

Levi HAINES (USA)

Akhmed USMANOV (UWW)

86kg

Seeded

Osman GOCEN (TUR) #1

Arsenii DZHIOEV (AZE) #2

Mahamedkhabib KADZIMAHAMEDAU (UWW) #3

Zahid VALENCIA (USA) #4

Rakhim MAGAMADOV (FRA) #5

Hayato ISHIGURO (JPN) #6

Batbilguun NAADAMBAT (MGL) #7

Gyeongyeon LEE (KOR) #8

Unseeded

Fateh BENFERDJALLAH (ALG)

Simon MARCHL (AUT)

Hade AYIDUSI (CHN)

Matteo MONTEIRO FURTADO (CPV)

Kreso SKUGOR (CRO)

Ahmed MAHMOUD (EGY)

Gabriel IGLESIAS RAMOS (ESP)

Avtandil KENTCHADZE (GEO)

Joshua MORODION (GER)

Mukul DAHIYA (IND)

Kamran GHASEMPOUR (IRI)

Azamat DAULETBEKOV (KAZ)

Mukhammad ABDULLAEV (KGZ)

Ivars SAMUSONOK (LAT)

Paulius LESCAUSKAS (LTU)

Traian CAPATINA (MDA)

Cezary SADOWSKI (POL)

Ethan RAMOS (PUR)

Weng CHOW (SGP)

Boris MAKOEV (SVK)

Mukhammed ALIIEV (UKR)

Ibragim KADIEV (UWW)

92kg

Seeded

Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO) #1

Benjamin HONIS (ITA) #2

Batyrbek TSAKULOV (SVK) #3

Osman NURMAGOMEDOV (AZE) #4

Dauren KURUGLIEV (GRE) #5

Amirhossein FIROUZPOUR (IRI) #6

Lars SCHAEFLE (GER) #7

Trent HIDLAY (USA) #8

Unseeded

Benjamin GREIL (AUT)

Magomed SHARIPOV (BRN)

Ahmed BATAEV (BUL)

Andrew JOHNSON (CAN)

Jumabayi AERGEN (CHN)

Cedric ABOSSOLO (CMR)

Barthelemy TSHOSHA (COD)

Deepak PUNIA (IND)

Uri KALASHNIKOV (ISR)

Takashi ISHIGURO (JPN)

Nurdaulet BEKENOV (KAZ)

Gwanuk KIM (KOR)

Andrian GROSUL (MDA)

Demchigdorj TUMURBAATAR (MGL)

Redjep HAJDARI (MKD)

Samuel SCHERRER (SUI)

Alperen TOKGOZ (TUR)

Ivan CHORNOHUZ (UKR)

Amanula GADZHIMAGOMEDOV (UWW)

Yaraslau IADKOUSKI (UWW)

97kg

Seeded

Akhmed TAZHUDINOV (BRN) #1

Givi MATCHARASHVILI (GEO) #2

Kyle SNYDER (USA) #3

Magomedkhan MAGOMEDOV (AZE) #4

Amirali AZARPIRA (IRI) #5

Zbigniew BARANOWSKI (POL) #6

Arash YOSHIDA (JPN) #7

Richard VEGH (HUN) #8

Unseeded

Akhmed MAGAMAEV (BUL)

Nishan Preet RANDHAWA (CAN)

Awusayiman HABILA (CHN)

Filip HUKLEK (CRO)

Arturo SILOT TORRES (CUB)

Adlan VISKHANOV (FRA)

Ertugrul AGCA (GER)

VICKY (IND)

Rizabek AITMUKHAN (KAZ)

Juhwan SEO (KOR)

Domantas PAULIUSCENKO (LTU)

Radu LEFTER (MDA)

Gankhuyag GANBAATAR (MGL)

Magomedgadji NUROV (MKD)

Adam JAKSIK (SVK)

Shatlyk HEMELYAYEV (TKM)

Resul GUNE (TUR)

David MCHEDLIDZE (UKR)

Aliaksandr HUSHTYN (UWW)

Abdulrashid SADULAEV (UWW)

Cristian SARCO (VEN)

125kg

Seeded

Giorgi MESHVILDISHVILI (AZE) #1

Amir Hossein ZARE (IRI) #2

Dzianis KHRAMIANKOU (UWW) #3

Robert BARAN (POL) #4

Lkhagvagerel MUNKHTUR (MGL) #5

Shamil SHARIPOV (BRN) #6

Solomon MANASHVILI (GEO) #7

Jonovan SMITH (PUR) #8

Unseeded

Johannes LUDESCHER (AUT)

Gabriel DE SOUSA (BRA)

Alen KHUBULOV (BUL)

BUHEEERDUN (CHN)

Filip KOSCIC (CRO)

Mohsen SIYAR (GER)

Azamat KHOSONOV (GRE)

Milan KORCSOG (HUN)

Rajat RUHAL (IND)

Taiki YAMAMOTO (JPN)

Alisher YERGALI (KAZ)

Gyeongmin KIM (KOR)

Dmitrii DUSCOV (MDA)

Omar SAREM (ROU)

Zyyamuhammet SAPAROV (TKM)

Hakan BUYUKCINGIL (TUR)

Murazi MCHEDLIDZE (UKR)

Wyatt HENDRICKSON (USA)

Abdulla KURBANOV (UWW)

Khasanboy RAKHIMOV (UZB)