Islam Dudaev

Islam Lechiyevich Dudaev (Ислам Лечиевич Дудаев; born 15 January 1995) is a Russian-born Albanian wrestler of Chechen origin. He won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 65kg event at the 2024 European Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest, Romania.

Career
In 2022, Dudaev won one of the bronze medals in the men's 65 kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. He also won one of the bronze medals in the 74kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.

Dudaev won the gold medal in the men's 65kg event at the 2024 European Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest, Romania. He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Dudaev was eliminated in his third match and he did not qualify for the Olympics. A month later, he earned a quota place for Albania for the Olympics at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.