Dauren Kurugliev

Dauren Khalidovich Kurugliev (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
Kurugliev won junior titles including the Russian Junior National Championships in 2011 and the North Caucasian Federal District championships in 2011 and 2013. 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.

In 2020, he won the gold medal in the men's 86 kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2023 he started representing Greece in international level and won two European Championships in 2023 and 2024.

Kurugliev competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. He was eliminated in his second match and he did not qualify for the Olympics. A month later, Kurugliev earned a quota place for Greece for the Olympics at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Championships and accomplishments

 * 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