Dauren Kurugliev

Dauren Khalidovich Kurugliev (Russian: Даурен Халидович Куруглиев; 12 July 1992, Makhachkala) is a Russian mixed martial artist and freestyle wrestler of Lezgin descent who has been representing Greece since 2023. He is a 2019 European Games gold medalist and a European champion.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Khalidovich and the family name is Kurugliev.
Dauren Kurugliev
Kurugliev in 2020
Personal information
Native nameДаурен Халидович Куруглиев
Full nameDauren Khalidovich Kurugliev
NationalityLezgin
Born (1992-07-12) 12 July 1992
Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Country Russia (until 2022)
 Greece (2023-present)
SportWrestling
Weight class86 kg
Event(s)Freestyle
ClubGamid Gamidova wrestling club
Coached byGaidar Gaidarov
Achievements and titles
World finals5th (2018)
Regional finalsGold (2017)

Gold (2019)

Gold (2023)
Medal record
Men's Freestyle wrestling
Representing the  Greece
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Zagreb 86 kg
Grand Prix
Silver medal – second place 2023 Budapest86 kg
Representing the  Russia
Individual World Cup
Gold medal – first place2020 Belgrade86 kg
World Cup
Gold medal – first place2019 Yakutsk86 kg
European Games
Gold medal – first place2019 Minsk86 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 Novi Sad86 kg
Representing Dagestan Dagestan
Russian Championships
Gold medal – first place2020 Naro-Fominsk86 kg
Gold medal – first place2018 Odintsovo86 kg
Silver medal – second place2021 Ulan-Ude86 kg
Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin
Gold medal – first place2022 Krasnoyarsk86 kg
Gold medal – first place2019 Krasnoyarsk86 kg
Gold medal – first place2017 Krasnoyarsk86 kg
Silver medal – second place2020 Krasnoyarsk86 kg
Bronze medal – third place2016 Krasnoyarsk86 kg
Bronze medal – third place2015 Krasnoyarsk86 kg
Bronze medal – third place2012 Krasnoyarsk74 kg

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]

Kurugliev trains with world champion Abdusalam Gadisov. He is a National Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling.

In 2020, he won the gold medal in the men's 86 kg event at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.[3][4]

Championships and accomplishments

References
  1. "Dauren Kurugliev". wrestdag.ru. 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.


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