2024 Olympic Wrestling Rankings

97 kg - Akhmed Tazhudinov

Radu Lefter and Murazi Mchedlidze are the newest additions to the rankings at 97 kg. Lefter was a 2023 U23 World Silver medalist who was teched by Isaac Trumble in the finals. Mchedlidze won a U23 World Bronze in 2018 and was second at the 2022 Bill Farrell Memorial tournament where he lost to Mike Macchiavello in the finals. 

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RankNameCountryPreviousOlympic Seeds
1Akhmed TazhudinovBahrain12
2Amirali AzarpiraIran2Unseeded
3Kyle SnyderUnited States33
4Magomedkhan MagomedovAzerbaijan41
5Givi MatcharashviliGeorgia55
6Alisher YergaliKazakhstan67
7Ibrahim CiftciTürkiye74
8Erik ThieleGermany86
9Zbigniew BaranowskiPoland98
10Awusayiman HabilaChina10Unseeded
11Arturo SilotCuba11Unseeded
12Radu LefterMoldovaNRUnseeded
13Murazi MchedlidzeUkraineNRUnseeded
14Luis PerezDominican Republic12Unseeded
15Mostafa EldersEgypt13Unseeded
16Nicolaas De LangeSouth Africa14


Akhmed Tazhudinov's win over Kyle Snyder at 2023 Worlds:

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