In the world ranking of Greco-Roman wrestling, the current European champion Zurab Datunashvili is in the 2^nd place.

The United World Wrestling (UWW) has published a renewed rating-list, featuring the top 20 of eight weight categories. Traditionally, without points.

In 80 kg, Zurab Datunashvili is only behind the world champion Ramazan Abacharaev of Russia. Hungarian Peter Bak (world champion 2014) is in the 3^rd place.

Besides Datunashvili, there are another 8 Georgians in the world ranking. Heavy weight is especially successful for us. There are three Georgians in 130 weight category – European bronze winner Levan Arabuli (5^th place), world champion among youth Zviad Pataridze (14^th position) and Tbilisi Grand Prix winner Iakob Kajaia (17^th position).

Bronze winner of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Games Shmagi Bolkvadze is in the 6^th place in 66 kg. the European vice-champion Robert Kobliashvili (85kg) is in the 12^th place. The world champion among youth Ramaz Zoidze and Tbilisi Grand Prix winner Nikoloz Kelasovi (80kg) are in the 16^th position. Lasha Gobadze (85kg) occupied the 18^th place.

Greco-Roman wrestling

World ranking

59 kg

1 Ismael Borrero Molina (Cuba)

2 Shinobu Ota (Japan)

3 Kenichiro Fumita (Japan)

4 Kristijan Fris (Serbia)

5 Ivo Angelov (Bulgaria)

66 kg

1 Artem Surkov (Russia)

2 Davor Stefanek (Serbia)

3 Soslan Daurov (Belarus)

4 Sang-Hoon Oh (South Korea)

5 Almat Kebispayev (Kazakhstan)

6 Shmagi Bolkvadze

71 kg

2 Rasul Chunayev (Azerbaijan)

3 Aleksander Maksimovic (Serbia)

4 Abuyazid Mantisigov (Russia)

5 Hasan Aliyev (Azerbaijan)

16 Ramaz Zoidze

75 kg

1 Roman Vlasov (Russia)

2 Mark Madsen (Denmark)

3 Hyeon-Woo Kim (South Korea)

4 Saeid Mourad Abdvali (Iran)

5 Tarek Abdelsalam (Bulgaria)

80 kg

1 Ramazan Abacharaev (Russia)

2 Zurab Datunashvili

3 Peter Bacsi (Hungary)

4 Aslan Atem (Turkey)

5 Ramin Taherisartang (Iran)

16 Nikoloz Kelasovi (Georgia)

85 kg

1 Viktor Lorincz (Hungary)

2 Nikolai Bayrakov (Bulgaria)

3 Islam Abbasov (Azerbaijan)

4 Davit Chakvetadze(Russia)

5 Zhan Belenyuk (Ukraine)

12 Robert Kobliashvili

18 Lasha Gobadze

98 kg

1 Yasmany Lugo Cabrera (Cuba)

2 Aleksander Hrabovik (Belarus)

3 Artur Aleksannyan (Armenia)

4 Nikita Melnikov (Russia)

5 Musa Evloev (Russia)

130 kg

1 Mijain Lopez Nunez (Cuba)

2 Riza Kayaalp (Turkey)

3 Sergey Semenov (Russia)

4 Balint Lam (Hungary)

5 Levan Arabuli

14 Zviad Pataridze

17 Iakob Kajaia