#WrestleAlexandria

WATCH: 10 freestyle finals from Ibrahim Moustafa

Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 09:33 By Vinay Siwach

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (March 2) -- The Ibrahim Moustafa Ranking Series closed off with freestyle. The gold medal bouts in Alexandria were nothing short of thrilling with gold medals to Turkey, the USA, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Georgia, Ukraine and Slovakia.

Here are the 10 gold medal bouts from the second Ranking Series event of the year.

GOLD: 57kg - Suleyman ATLI (TUR) vs. Andrii YATSENKO (UKR)

GOLD: 61kg - Taras MARKOVYCH (UKR) vs. Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)

GOLD: 61kg - Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM) vs. Joseph Christopher MC KENNA (USA)

GOLD: 70kg - Lucas CHITTUM (USA) vs. Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ)

Semifinal: 74kg - Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU) vs. Soner DEMIRTAS (TUR) [The at 74kg did not take place after Vincenzo JOSEPH (USA) got injured]

GOLD: 79kg - Avtandil KENTCHADZE (GEO) vs. Amirhossein Morteza Gholi KAVOUSI (IRI)

GOLD: 86kg - Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR) vs. Zahid VALENCIA (USA)

Semifinal: 92kg - Khaled ELMOATAMADAWI (EGY) vs. Kollin Raymond MOORE (USA)

GOLD: 97kg - Batyrbek TCAKULOV (SVK) vs. Zbigniew BARANOWSKI (POL)

GOLD: 125kg - Kamil Tomasz KOSCIOLEK (POL) vs. Taha AKGUL (TUR)

#Anti-Doping

CAS dismisses Datunashvili appeal against anti-doping violation

Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 02:28 By United World Wrestling Press

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (November 22) -- The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld the five-year ban imposed on Zurabi DATUNASHVILI (SRB), dismissing his appeal against the sanction handed down last year.

The CAS Anti-Doping Division (CAS ADD) sanctioned Datunashvili with five years of ineligibility on September 19, 2024. He filed an appeal against the decision, but on November 17, 2025, CAS dismissed the appeal and confirmed the sanction. His period of ineligibility will run until April 10, 2028.

Datunashvili had been charged by the ITA with multiple anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs), including the use of urine substitution in the lead-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the creation and use of a fabricated video as evidence to justify a missed out-of-competition doping control in 2022.

As a result of the sanction, all results obtained by Datunashvili from May 27, 2021, to April 11, 2023 (the date of his provisional suspension) were disqualified, including his bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics and the gold medals he won at the 2021 and 2022 World Championships.