Alisher Yergali
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Yergali at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Oslo, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 12 April 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Amateur wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alisher Yergali (born 12 April 1999) is a Kazakh freestyle wrestler. He is a four-time medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships. He represented Kazakhstan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[1]
Yergali won the bronze medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships, both in 2019 and in 2020.[2][3][4][5]
In 2019, Yergali competed in the men's freestyle 97 kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.[6] He lost his bronze medal match against Magomedgadzhi Nurov of North Macedonia.[6][7]
In 2021, Yergali won one of the bronze medals in the men's 97 kg event at the Poland Open held in Warsaw.[8] He competed in the men's freestyle 97 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[1] He won his first match against Mohammed Fardj of Algeria by walkover and he was then eliminated by Süleyman Karadeniz of Turkey.[1]
Yergali competed at the 2022 Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.[9] He won the silver medal in the men's 125 kg event at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.[10][11]
He competed at the 2024 Asian Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and he earned a quota place for Kazakhstan for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[12] He competed in the men's freestyle 97 kg event at the Olympics.[13] He was eliminated in the repechage by Amir Ali Azarpira of Iran.[13][14]