2024 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament

The 61st Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament, is a wrestling event held in Sofia, Bulgaria between 7 and 10 March 2024. Nearly 200 competitors from 23 countries will take part in the tournament - Iran, France, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Kosovo, Latvia, North Macedonia, Malta, Philippines, Romania, Russia (AIN), Serbia, Tunisia, Ukraine, USA, Algeria, Austria, China, Ecuador, Egypt and Bulgaria.^[1][2]

Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov 2024
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Dates	7–10 March
Stadium	Levski Sofia Sports Hall
Champions
Freestyle	Bulgaria
Greco-Roman	Bulgaria
Women	Bulgaria
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This international tournament included competition in both men's and women's freestyle wrestling and men's Greco-Roman wrestling. This tournament was held in honor of Dan Kolov who was the first European freestyle wrestling champion from Bulgaria and European and World Champion Nikola Petroff.^[3]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Bulgaria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria*	8	10	11	29
2	Iran	5	1	1	7
3	Ukraine	3	4	4	11
4	South Korea	3	1	2	6
5	Kazakhstan	3	0	4	7
6	United States	2	1	1	4
7	France	1	3	4	8
8	Serbia	1	2	0	3
9	China	1	1	3	5
10	Romania	1	1	1	3
–	Individual Neutral Athletes	1	0	0	1
11	Algeria	0	2	3	5
12	Austria	0	1	1	2
13	Israel	0	1	0	1
	North Macedonia	0	1	0	1
15	Jordan	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		29	29	37	95

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Bulgaria	150	Bulgaria	153	Bulgaria	180
2	Ukraine	140	Kazakhstan	130	Romania	80
3	South Korea	68	Iran	117	South Korea	65
4	Iran	65	France	72	Serbia	64
5	Austria	41	China	56	China	60
6	North Macedonia	38	Austria	40	France	56
7	Algeria	35	Algeria	31	Algeria	50
8	Serbia	25	United States	28	United States	45
9	United States	25	Ukraine	25	Tunisia	25
10	France	15	Israel	24	Italy	17

Medal overview

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg details	Andrii Yatsenko  Ukraine	Roman Hutsuliak  Ukraine	Ivaylo Tisov  Bulgaria
61 kg details	Stevan Mićić  Serbia	Yaroslav Hurskyy  Ukraine	Abdelhak Kherbache  Algeria
			Yasin Rezaei  Iran
65 kg details	Abbas Ebrahimzadeh  Iran	Yun Jun-sik  South Korea	Marwane Yezza  France
			Taras Markovych  Ukraine
70 kg details	Ivan Kusyak  Ukraine	Kaloyan Atanasov  Bulgaria	Nikolay Dimitrov  Bulgaria
74 kg details	Ramazan Ramazanov  Bulgaria	Miroslav Kirov  Bulgaria	Vadim Tsurkan  Ukraine
			Mihail Georgiev  Bulgaria
79 kg details	Radomir Stoyanov  Bulgaria	Chems Fetairia  Algeria	Lukas Lins  Austria
86 kg details	Alex Dieringer  United States	Mukhammed Aliiev  Ukraine	Valentin Babii  Ukraine
			Vladyslav Prus  Ukraine
92 kg details	Mohammad Azimi  Iran	Redjep Hajdari  North Macedonia	None awarded
97 kg details	Juhwan Seo  South Korea	Andriyan Valkanov  Bulgaria	None awarded
125 kg details	Georgi Ivanov  Bulgaria	Yurii Idzinskyi  Ukraine	Jung Yei-hyun  South Korea

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Marlan Mukashev  Kazakhstan	Stefan Grigorov  Bulgaria	Haifeng Zhang  China
60 kg details	Oleksii Masyk  Ukraine	Melkamu Fetene  Israel	Zihao Xi  China
63 kg details	Dias Askerbay  Kazakhstan	Avgustin Spasov  Bulgaria	Mukhamedali Mamurbek  Kazakhstan
67 kg details	Mamadassa Sylla  France	Yanis Nifri  France	Merey Bekenov  Kazakhstan
			Dimitar Georgiev  Bulgaria
72 kg details	Adilkhan Satayev  Kazakhstan	Mohammad Reza Geraei  Iran	Deyvid Dimitrov  Bulgaria
77 kg details	Gholam Reza Farokhi  Iran	Stoyan Kubatov  Bulgaria	Azat Sadykov  Kazakhstan
			Johnny Bur  France
82 kg details	Mohammad Naghousi  Iran	Vladimeri Karchaidze  France	Rosian Dermanski  Bulgaria
			Talas Ashirkhanov  Kazakhstan
87 kg details	Semen Novikov  Bulgaria	Yoan Dimitrov  Bulgaria	Sultan Eid  Jordan
97 kg details	Amirreza Akbari  Iran	Markus Ragginger  Austria	Kaloyan Ivanov  Bulgaria
			Joe Rau  United States

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg details	Miran Cheon  South Korea	Ibtissem Doudou  Algeria	Emine Hyusein Osman  Bulgaria
53 kg details	Ekaterina Poleshchuk Individual Neutral Athletes	Irena Binkova  Bulgaria	Chahinez Rabah  Algeria
			Tatiana Debien  France
55 kg details	Sezen Belberova  Bulgaria	Alexandra Hedrick  United States	Mihaela Mihova  Bulgaria
57 kg details	Kwon Young-jin  South Korea	Georgiana Lirca  Romania	Ting Zhang  China
			Chaimaa Aouissi  Algeria
59 kg details	Evelina Nikolova  Bulgaria	Fatme Shaban  Bulgaria	Desislava Ivanova  Bulgaria
62 kg details	Xinyuan Sun  China	Bilyana Dudova  Bulgaria	Roxana Capezan  Romania
			Ameline Douarre  France
65 kg details	Kateryna Zelenykh  Romania	Maša Perović  Serbia	Gergana Stoyanova  Bulgaria
68 kg details	Yuliana Yaneva  Bulgaria	Man Zhang  China	Khadija Jlassi  Tunisia
72 kg details	Vanesa Georgieva  Bulgaria	Fanni Nađ  Serbia	None awarded
76 kg details	Dymond Guilford  United States	Pauline Lecarpentier  France	Eunju Hwang  South Korea

Participating nations

185 wrestlers from 21 countries:

1. Individual Neutral Athletes (1)
2.  Algeria (10)
3.  Austria (8)
4.  Bulgaria (62) (Host)
5.  China (11)
6.  Spain (1)
7.  France (12)
8.  Iran (9)
9.  Israel (3)
10.  Italy (2)
11.  Jordan (2)
12.  Kazakhstan (14)
13.  South Korea (7)
14.  Latvia (2)
15.  North Macedonia (3)
16.  Malta (1)
17.  Philippines (1)
18.  Romania (6)
19.  Serbia (6)
20.  Tunisia (2)
21.  Ukraine (14)
22.  United States (8)

Results

Legend

• F — Won by fall
• R — Retired
• WO — Won by walkover

Men's freestyle

Men's freestyle 57 kg

Men's Greco-Roman

Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg

Women's freestyle

Women's freestyle 50 kg

Pos	Athlete	Pld	W	L	CP	TP		KOR	ALG	BUL
1	Miran Cheon (KOR)	2	2	0	8	22		—	12–1	10–0
2	Ibtissem Doudou (ALG)	2	1	1	6	9		1–12	—	8–0 Fall
3	Emine Hyusein Osman (BUL)	2	0	2	0	0		0–10	0–8 Fall	—

Source: UWW

Women's freestyle 53 kg

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	Nikol Krumova (BUL)	2
	Irena Binkova (BUL)	7F			Irena Binkova (BUL)	4F
	Yana Dimitrova (BUL)	0			Chahinez Rabah (ALG)	4
	Chahinez Rabah (ALG)	11							Irena Binkova (BUL)	0
	Tatiana Debien (FRA)	11							Ekaterina Poleshchuk (ANA)	10
	Fabiana Rinella (ITA)	2			Tatiana Debien (FRA)	0
	Elena Simona Ionescu (ROU)	0			Ekaterina Poleshchuk (ANA)	3
	Ekaterina Poleshchuk (ANA)	10

	Bronze medals
	Nikol Krumova (BUL)	3
	Chahinez Rabah (ALG)	4
	Elena Simona Ionescu (ROU)	1
	Tatiana Debien (FRA)	9

Women's freestyle 55 kg

Pos	Athlete	Pld	W	L	CP	TP		BUL	USA	BUL
1	Sezen Belberova (BUL)	2	2	0	7	14		—	3–2	11–0
2	Alexandra Hedrick (USA)	2	1	1	5	12		2–3	—	10–0
3	Mihaela Mihova (BUL)	2	0	2	0	0		0–11	0–10	—

Source: UWW

Women's freestyle 57 kg

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	Ting Zhang (CHN)	12
	Ana Maria Puiu (ROU)	9			Ting Zhang (CHN)	3
	Georgiana Lirca (ROU)	11			Georgiana Lirca (ROU)	12
	Nesrin Syuleymanova (BUL)	1							Georgiana Lirca (ROU)	9
	Chaimaa Aouissi (ALG)	4F							Kwon Young-jin (KOR)	11
	Amel Rebiha (FRA)	0			Chaimaa Aouissi (ALG)	2
	Jana Petrović (SRB)	2			Kwon Young-jin (KOR)	2F
	Kwon Young-jin (KOR)	14

	Bronze medals
	Nesrin Syuleymanova (BUL)	2
	Ting Zhang (CHN)	5F
	Jana Petrović (SRB)	5
	Chaimaa Aouissi (ALG)	8F

Women's freestyle 59 kg

Pos	Athlete	Pld	W	L	CP	TP		BUL	BUL	BUL
1	Evelina Nikolova (BUL)	2	2	0	9	16		—	4–0 Fall	12–0
2	Fatme Shaban (BUL)	2	1	1	5	12		0–4 Fall	—	12–4 Fall
3	Desislava Ivanova (BUL)	2	0	2	0	0		0–12	4–12 Fall	—

Source: UWW

Women's freestyle 62 kg

	Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
					Bilyana Dudova (BUL)	5F
	Jovana Radivojević (SRB)	2			Siwar Bousetta (TUN)	0
	Siwar Bousetta (TUN)	12							Bilyana Dudova (BUL)	8
									Roxana Capezan (ROU)	0
					Jiajing Hou (CHN)	4
					Roxana Capezan (ROU)	6
													Bilyana Dudova (BUL)	2
													Xinyuan Sun (CHN)	3
					Emel Mustafova (BUL)	0
	Ameline Douarre (FRA)	10			Ameline Douarre (FRA)	10
	Arian Carpio (PHI)	0							Ameline Douarre (FRA)	0
	Lydia Pérez (ESP)	0							Xinyuan Sun (CHN)	7
	Xinyuan Sun (CHN)	5			Xinyuan Sun (CHN)	10
					Mastoura Soudani (ALG)	0

	Repechage round 1				Bronze medal match
					Siwar Bousetta (TUN)	3
					Roxana Capezan (ROU)	7
	Mastoura Soudani (ALG)	0			Ameline Douarre (FRA)	2
	Lydia Pérez (ESP)	4			Lydia Pérez (ESP)	1

Women's freestyle 65 kg

Pos	Athlete	Pld	W	L	CP	TP		ROU	SRB	BUL	BUL
1	Kateryna Zelenykh (ROU)	3	3	0	14	14		—	4–0 Fall	10–0	WO
2	Maša Perović (SRB)	3	1	2	6	6		0–4 Fall	—	3–13	3–1 Fall
3	Gergana Stoyanova (BUL)	3	1	2	5	17		0–10	13–3	—	4–5
4	Dzhanan Manolova (BUL)	3	1	2	3	6		WO	1–3 Fall	5–4	—

Source: UWW

Women's freestyle 68 kg

Pos	Athlete	Pld	W	L	CP	TP		BUL	TUN	ROU	ITA
1	Sofiya Georgieva (BUL)	3	3	0	13	37		—	16–4	11–0 Fall	10–0
2	Khadija Jlassi (TUN)	3	2	1	9	17		4–16	—	8–3 Fall	5–0
3	Larisa Maria Nițu (ROU)	3	1	2	3	5		0–11 Fall	3–8 Fall	—	2–2
4	Laura Godino (ITA)	3	0	3	1	2		0–10	0–5	2–2	—

Source: UWW

Pos	Athlete	Pld	W	L	CP	TP		BUL	CHN	SRB
1	Yuliana Yaneva (BUL)	2	2	0	8	23		—	12–1	11–0
2	Man Zhang (CHN)	2	1	1	5	11		1–12	—	10–0
3	Emilija Jakovljević (SRB)	2	0	2	0	0		0–11	0–10	—

Source: UWW

	Semifinals				Final
	Sofiya Georgieva (BUL)	7
	Man Zhang (CHN)	8			Man Zhang (CHN)	0
	Yuliana Yaneva (BUL)	10F			Yuliana Yaneva (BUL)	10
	Khadija Jlassi (TUN)	0
					Bronze medal
					Sofiya Georgieva (BUL)	3
					Khadija Jlassi (TUN)	3

Women's freestyle 72 kg

Pos	Athlete	Pld	W	L	CP	TP		BUL	SRB	BUL
1	Vanesa Georgieva (BUL)	2	2	0	9	10		—	10–0	WO
2	Fanni Nađ (SRB)	2	1	1	5	0		0–10	—	WO
3	Daniela Brasnarova (BUL)	2	0	2	0	0		WO	WO	—

Source: UWW

Women's freestyle 76 kg

Pos	Athlete	Pld	W	L	CP	TP		USA	FRA	KOR
1	Dymond Guilford (USA)	2	2	0	8	14		—	5–0 Fall	9–0
2	Pauline Lecarpentier (FRA)	2	1	1	3	12		0–5 Fall	—	2–1
3	Eunju Hwang (KOR)	2	0	2	1	1		0–9	1–2	—

Source: UWW