Group 3 in Greco at Worlds Leaves U.S. With only 1 Medal Hope

2026 Senior World Wrestling Championships
Astana, Kazakhstan, October 24 – November 1
Greco-Roman Wrestling – Group 3

Otto Black remains the last medal hope in Greco-Roman wrestling at the UWW World Championships.
Aytjan Khalmakhanov (Uzbekistan) will need to make the finals to draw Black back into the hunt for a Bronze Medal.

Team USA Results – Greco-Roman – Group Three
63 kg – Xavier Johnson (Pueblo, Colo./Army WCAP), eliminated
LOSS Nihat Mammadli (Azerbaijan), med. for.

67 kg – Otto Black (Colorado Springs, Colo./USOPTC/New York AC), awaiting repechage
LOSS Aytjan Khalmakhanov (Uzbekistan), tech. fall, 12-1

87 kg – Beka Melelashvili (Colorado Springs, Colo./USOPTC/New York AC), eliminated
LOSS Ivan Huklek (Croatia), fall, 5:30

Medal Match Pairings – Greco-Roman | Group Two
72 kg
Gold – Krisztian Vancza (Hungary) vs. Seyed Sohrabi (Iran)
Bronze – Iuri Lomadze (Georgia) vs. Parviz Nasibov (Ukraine)
Bronze – Mingiian Goriaev (Russia) vs. Amantur Ismailov (Kyrgyzstan)

97 kg
Gold – Kiryl Maskevich (Belarus) vs. Artur Sargsian (Russia)
Bronze – Kiril Milov (Bulgaria) vs. Markus Ragginger (Austria)
Bronze – Mohammadhadi Saravi (Iran) vs. Alex Kessidis (Sweden)

130 kg
Gold – Darius Vitek (Hungary) vs. Fardin Hedayati (Iran)
Bronze – Pavel Hlinchuk (Belarus) vs. Rafael Tsitsuashvili (Uzbekistan)
Bronze – Elias Kuosmanen (Finland) vs. Wenhao Jiang (China)

Semifinal Pairings – Greco-Roman | Group Three
63 kg
Hasrat Jafarov (Azerbaijan) vs. Saeid Esmaeili Leivesi (Iran)
Aytjan Khalmakhanov (Uzbekistan) vs. Slavik Galstyan (Armenia)

67 kg
Sergey Emelin (Russia) vs. Nihat Mammadli (Azerbaijan)
Karen Aslanyan (Armenia) vs. Edmond Nazaryan (Bulgaria)

87 kg
Mukhammadkodir Rasulov (Uzbekistan) vs. Semen Novikov (Bulgaria)
Alireza Mohmadipiani (Iran) vs. Gevorg Tadevosyan (Armenia)