Sadulaev wins first European Championship since 2020 despite missing seven major events

Two-time Olympic champion Abdulrashid Sadulaev won the European Wrestling Championship for the first time since 2020, with Akhmed Usmanov and David Baev also claiming gold medals. The post highlights that Sadulaev ranks fourth all-time in combined Olympic, World, and European freestyle wrestling titles with fourteen (2 Olympics + 6 Worlds + 6 Euros including 2015 European Games). Since 2022, he has missed one Olympics, two World Championships, and four European Championships due to visa issues, sanctions, and travel recommendations—events that could have potentially placed him first all-time. The current leaders are Buvaisar Saitiev with fifteen titles, Valentin Yordanov with fifteen, and Taha Akgul with fifteen.