European Championships 2025 Entries

[Tdub157]

European Championships 2025 Entries

 

Looks like the Russians are sending a STRONG team!

Starts April 7th

[Truzzcat]

74 is definitely the weight to watch

• Valiev
• Salk
• sidakov
• Kurmagomedov
• tsabolov 

Sadulaev back at 97 is exciting should mean the Taz rematch is a done deal. 

seeing no geno or taha at 125 is really weird I think one of those two has won it for the last 12+ years. I don't know anything about russia 92 or 125 and they are not good at 57 but they are probably favorites at 61,65,70,74,79,86,97

[bnwtwg]

Taha retired after the olympics. Geno is probably still enjoying that gold medal life - he isn't exactly known for being an offseason grinder.

[Truzzcat]

11 hours ago, bnwtwg said:

Taha retired after the olympics. Geno is probably still enjoying that gold medal life - he isn't exactly known for being an offseason grinder.

he has 10 medals from Euros taha has 11 gold, 13 between the two of them was just more or less saying it's a changing of the guard.

[bnwtwg]

Just now, Truzzcat said:

he has 10 medals from Euros taha has 11 gold, 13 between the two of them was just more or less saying it's a changing of the guard.

Ahh my fault, thought you just hadn't heard the news. Yes it is very weird not having the two at anything. And knowing Zare has Masoumi nipping at his heels leading to a potential fully new guard is very weird indeed.

[Tdub157]

Russian at 57kg  Mongush won U23 worlds in 2023. Looks like he recently lost to Ono’s training partner from Japan at the recent ranking series event in Muhamet Malo 8-8.

61 kg Gold - Takara Suda, JPN vs Nachyn Mongush, UWW

 

Russian at 92kg Yaraslau IADKOUSKI doesn’t have the best results from my little research

Russian at 125kg Zelimkhan KHIZRIEV recently lost to Zare in the Albania ranking series event.

 

I agree with you, 74KG will be fun to watch. The return of Sidakov!

[CHROMEBIRD]

I thought Sidakov went MIA due to military commitments. Is that no longer the case?

[Truzzcat]

On 3/18/2025 at 10:04 AM, Tdub157 said:

Russian at 57kg  Mongush won U23 worlds in 2023. Looks like he recently lost to Ono’s training partner from Japan at the recent ranking series event in Muhamet Malo 8-8.

61 kg Gold - Takara Suda, JPN vs Nachyn Mongush, UWW

 

Russian at 92kg Yaraslau IADKOUSKI doesn’t have the best results from my little research

Russian at 125kg Zelimkhan KHIZRIEV recently lost to Zare in the Albania ranking series event.

 

I agree with you, 74KG will be fun to watch. The return of Sidakov!

Did mongush compete at russian nationals? I know lev pavlov won that and he has lost to Lilledahl the last two years at age level worlds which is why I was lower on that weight for them.

[Tdub157]

29 minutes ago, Truzzcat said:

Did mongush compete at russian nationals? I know lev pavlov won that and he has lost to Lilledahl the last two years at age level worlds which is why I was lower on that weight for them.

not 100% sure. I see they wrestled in the finals of the Yarygin this past January and Mongus won 7-5

[GrandOlm]

No Riza. 

Still serving his grug suspension or did he finally let it go. 

[GrandOlm]

So Riza ha been banned for 4 years due to doping. Unless the Turkish government pulls every string in the book ( I don't think they will for a late 30s year old athlete who has been losing a lot), he's done.  

His quote about the situation makes no sense. Riza makes the excuse that "he retired from wrestling' so he doesn't understand why they're targeting him. The only reason he "retired" is because the ban forced him to. I think he'd wrestle in these European Championships if he never got popped. 

Everything blew up in his face after he lied about retiring after Tokyo, to continue his chase for the Olympic Gold. Embarrassingly pinned in your home town hero tourney meant to celebrate you and your career, lose a world championships in the last seconds with a push out, find out the man who owns you is coming back to stop you in Paris, have UWW and the Turkish press hype you to the moon over breaking Karelin's record (they lied/made that up, he technically wouldn't have even if he did win) only to have your coronation derailed by a terrible mistake where you get thrown and pinned in the final, then gets destroyed by a young Iranian wrestler in what with hindsight is almost certainly your last match, and to finish if off get banned from the olympics for a drug violation, nullifying the reason you kept wrestling in the first place and staining your legacy as a drug cheat. 

What an unmitigated disaster, should have retired after Tokyo as the clear world nr. 2 unlucky to be in Lopez's era and just moved on to politics/bureaucracy. 

Geno's career is complete with the Olympic Gold win. He's an olympic champion, the highest honor in the sport, and no one can ever take that away from him.  He is also too old and not good enough to strive for beating wrestling's records and at the same time he's already won everything you can win. I don't know what motivates him personally and financially, but I'm not surprised to see him skip these Euros.