Elias Kuosmanen

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Matti Elias Kuosmanen (born 2 September 1995) is a Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a two-time bronze medalist at the European Wrestling Championships.{{Cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/results_04_kaspiisk.pdf |title=2018 European Wrestling Championships Results |website=United World Wrestling |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412211223/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/results_04_kaspiisk.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2020 |access-date=12 April 2020}}{{Cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/opt-final-book_european_bucharest_2019.pdf |title=2019 European Wrestling Championships Results |website=United World Wrestling |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412162932/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/opt-final-book_european_bucharest_2019.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2020 |access-date=12 April 2020}} He also competed at the World Wrestling Championships in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2023.

Kuosmanen represented Finland at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.{{Cite news |last=Shefferd |first=Neil |date=8 May 2021 |title=Armenia and Romania book multiple Tokyo 2020 places at UWW World Olympic Games qualifier |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1107558/uww-greco-roman-qualifying |access-date=8 May 2021}}{{Cite web |title=2021 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book |url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/world_og_qualifier_final_book.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509161754/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/world_og_qualifier_final_book.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2021 |access-date=9 May 2021 |website=United World Wrestling}} He competed in the men's 130{{nbsp}}kg event.{{Cite web |title=Wrestling Results Book |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164330/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=7 August 2021 |access-date=8 August 2021 |website=2020 Summer Olympics}}

Career

Kuosmanen represented Finland at the 2019 Military World Games held in Wuhan, China and he won the silver medal in the 97{{nbsp}}kg event.{{Cite web |url=https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/file/RESULTS-7th%20CISM%20Military%20World%20Games-总成绩册.pdf |title=Results |website=2019 Military World Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112134942/https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/file/RESULTS-7th%20CISM%20Military%20World%20Games-%E6%80%BB%E6%88%90%E7%BB%A9%E5%86%8C.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=14 February 2020 |archive-date=12 November 2019}} In 2020, Kuosmanen lost his bronze medal match in the 97{{nbsp}}kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy.{{Cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf |title=2020 European Wrestling Championships Results |website=United World Wrestling |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412124934/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2020 |access-date=12 April 2020}}

In 2021, Kuosmanen won one of the bronze medals in the 97{{nbsp}}kg event at the Grand Prix Zagreb Open held in Zagreb, Croatia.{{Cite web |title=2021 Grand Prix Zagreb Open Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2021-01/results_01_zagreb.pdf?VersionId=pRLHK4V9.EF957exJQFDTZlQYqtSm8Ae |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107150312/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2021-01/results_01_zagreb.pdf?VersionId=pRLHK4V9.EF957exJQFDTZlQYqtSm8Ae |archive-date=7 November 2021 |access-date=7 November 2021 |website=United World Wrestling}}

Kuosmanen won one of the bronze medals in the 130{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria.{{Cite web |title=2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2023-03/results_03_sofia.pdf?VersionId=g1eemM9v2lRqcW08Qi8J8daZveFnBhke |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307130300/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2023-03/results_03_sofia.pdf?VersionId=g1eemM9v2lRqcW08Qi8J8daZveFnBhke |archive-date=7 March 2023 |access-date=7 May 2023 |website=United World Wrestling}} He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.{{Cite web |title=2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/2024-04/final-book-seniors_european_og_qualifier.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408164811/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-04/final-book-seniors_european_og_qualifier.pdf |archive-date=8 April 2024 |access-date=8 April 2024 |website=United World Wrestling}} He was eliminated in his first match and he did not qualify for the Olympics. Kuosmanen also competed at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey without qualifying for the Olympics.{{Cite web |title=2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/2024-05/results_05_istanbul_qt.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514204605/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-05/results_05_istanbul_qt.pdf |archive-date=14 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=United World Wrestling}}