The Roscongress Foundation has established a prize for the best foreign wrestler at the XXIX Grand Prix for Freestyle and Women’s Wrestling named after two-time Olympic champion Ivan Yarygin, which was held on 26–28 January in Krasnoyarsk. The tournament was attended by wrestlers from 21 countries.

Russians won eight out of ten gold medals in the freestyle wrestling competition: Zaur Uguyev (weight class up to 57 kg), Gadzhimurad Rashidov (61), Ilyas Bekbulatov (65), Magomed Kurbanaliyev (70), Khetik Tsabolov (74), Akhmed Gadzhimagomedov (79), Abdulrashid Sadulayev (92), and Muradin Kushkhov (125). Americans David Taylor (86) and Kyle Snyder (97) also won gold in the freestyle tournament. No Russians won any gold in women’s wrestling. China won five gold awards in the women’s tournament, Japan won three, and the United States and Mongolia won one each. Wrestlers from Cuba, Turkey, North Korea, Ukraine, Estonia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan won silver and bronze medals.

The first recipient of the Roscongress Foundation prize was Kyle Snyder. The leader of the U.S. team, whose profile includes gold at the 2016 Olympics and two world champion titles, wrestled for the third time in a row at the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix and secured his second victory there. “The Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk launched a new series of top-rated tournaments of United World Wrestling (UWW). Only four tournaments around the world have received the new elite status for each types of wrestling. It was essentially getting back to our roots since Ivan Yarygin conceived the competition in Krasnoyarsk as the world’s strongest international tournament. And the tradition of awarding the best foreign wrestler of the tournament was resumed at the Roscongress Foundation’s initiative. This prize will become a traditional one,” said Georgy Bryusov, Deputy Director of the Roscongress Foundation, who presented the award to Kyle Snyder.