Musa Evloev

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| name = Musa Evloev

| image = Musa Evloev.jpg

| native_name = Муса Гиланиевич Евлоев

| native_name_lang = ru

| full_name = Musa Gilaniyevich Evloev

| nationality = Russian

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1993|03|31}}

| birth_place = Nesterovskaya, Ingushetia, Russia

| height = {{height|m=1.80|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|96|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

| country = {{RUS}}

| sport = Wrestling

| event = Greco-Roman

| club = Sparta

| coach = F. P. Avakov, V. V. Khromov

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Musa Gilaniyevich Evloev ({{lang-rus|Муса Гиланиевич Евлоев||mʊˈsa ɪ̯ɪˈvɫo(ɪ̯)ɪf}}; born 31 March 1993) is a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the 97 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.{{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 |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games}}{{Cite news |last=Palmer |first=Dan |date=3 August 2021 |title=Trio of world champions add Olympic gold on second night of wrestling finals at Tokyo 2020 |website=InsideTheGames.biz |publisher=Inside the Games |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1111175/wrestling-tokyo-2020-second-finals-night |access-date=3 August 2021}} He is also a two-time world champion and two-time national champion, having won in 2016 and 2017. Internationally, Evloev won silver at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in Paris, France, losing to Artur Aleksanyan from Armenia. That year he also won the 2017 Wrestling World Cup in Tehran, Iran.[https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/daten.php?spid=608EEE5AF5EE4518A1C810A0076E89DD Evloev, Musa (RUS)]

He won the 2018 World Wrestling Championships, now in the 97 kg division, defeating Bulgarian Kiril Milov, 7–2 and at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships he won gold medal again, in the final match he beat Artur Aleksanyan.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

In 2020, he won the gold medal in the 97 kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.{{Cite web |title=2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2020-iwc-belgrade-final-book.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218212337/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2020-iwc-belgrade-final-book.pdf |archive-date=18 December 2020 |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=unitedworldwrestling.org |publisher=United World Wrestling}} In 2021, he won the gold medal in the men's 97 kg event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2021 held in Rome, Italy.{{Cite web |title=Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2021 |url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book_matteo_pellicone_2021.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321221706/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book_matteo_pellicone_2021.pdf |archive-date=21 March 2021 |access-date=21 March 2021 |website=UWW.org |publisher=United World Wrestling}}

Evloev was barred from participating in the qualifying tournament for the 2024 Summer Olympics after being photographed standing near a poster reading "No to Nazism".{{Cite web |last=Updates |date=2024-03-19 |title=Russian champion wrestler barred from Olympics qualifier – sport official - The Press United |url=https://thepressunited.com/updates/russian-champion-wrestler-barred-from-olympics-qualifier-sport-official/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=The Press United {{!}} International News Analysis, Viewpoint |language=en-US}}