Oleksandr Daragan

Olympic wrestler

Born

19 January 1978, Dnipro

Citizenship

Ukraine

Sport

amateur wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling

Occupation

amateur wrestler

Height

180 cm (5 ft 11 in)

Weight

85 kg (187 lb)

Oleksandr Serhiyovych Darahan (also Oleksandr Daragan, Ukrainian: Олександр Сергійович Дараган; born January 19, 1978, in Dnipropetrovsk) is an amateur Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category. In 2001, Daragan had won two bronze medals for his division at the World Wrestling Championships in Patras, Greece, and at the European Wrestling Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also a member of the wrestling team for Dynamo Mariupol, and is coached and trained by his father Sergey Daragan.

Daragan made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the men's 84 kg class, against Turkey's Hamza Yerlikaya, Bulgaria's Vladislav Metodiev, and Estonia's Tarvi Thomberg.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Daragan competed for the second time in the men's 84 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to Iran's Saman Tahmasebi, with a three-set technical score (0–4, 2–1, 0–3), and a classification point score of 1–3.

Competitions

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q7086228 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.