Egzon Shala (born 23 November 1990) is a Kosovan-Albanian freestyle wrestler. Representing Albania, he earned a bronze medal at the 2013 Mediterranean Games. Representing Kosovo, he qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics from the 2019 World Wrestling Championships after he was promoted from 5th place as two athlete (Syrian Badzha Khutaba and Uzbek Khasanboy Rakhimov) were disqualified due to doping violations.
Major results YearTournamentVenueResultEventRepresenting 2011World Championships Istanbul, Turkey35thFreestyle 84 kg2012European Championships Belgrade, Serbia21stFreestyle 84 kg2013European Championships Tbilisi, Georgia5thFreestyle 96 kgMediterranean Games Mersin, Turkey3rdFreestyle 96 kgWorld Championships Budapest, Hungary10thFreestyle 96 kg2014European Championships Vantaa, Finland13thFreestyle 97 kgMediterranean Championships Kanjiža, Serbia1stFreestyle 97 kgWorld Championships Tashkent, Uzbekistan6thFreestyle 97 kg2015European Games Baku, Azerbaijan17thFreestyle 125 kgWorld Championships Las Vegas, United States24thFreestyle 97 kg2016European Championships Riga, Latvia14thFreestyle 97 kg2017European Championships Novi Sad, Serbia15thFreestyle 97 kgRepresenting 2019European Championships Bucharest, Romania7thFreestyle 125 kgWorld Championships Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan5thFreestyle 125 kg2021European Championships Warsaw, Poland12thFreestyle 125 kgOlympic Games Tokyo, Japan7thFreestyle 125 kg2022Mediterranean Games Oran, Algeria9thFreestyle 125 kg
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Egzon Shala at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (archived)