Inalbek Sheriev

Inalbek Sheriev (; born 18 January 2003) is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Kabardian Circassian origin who currently competes at 70 kilograms.

Wrestling career Cherkess, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria. He is a student of SSOR in the village of Deyskoye. At the beginning of June 2018 in Moscow, he won the Russian Under-18 Championship. On 3 July 2018 in Zagreb in the final of the World Youth Championship he lost to Turan Bayramov from Azerbaijan.

On 27 September 2019, he was awarded the title of Master of Sports of Russia.

On 2 December 2020, he won the Russian Junior Championship in Smolensk, defeating Alexander Baltuev from Irkutsk in the final.

In mid May 2021 in Skopje, Sheriev won a bronze medal at the European Championships among athletes under 23 years old in the weight category up to 70 kg, defeating Giorgi Elbakidze from Georgia in the bout for third place with a score of 8:2.

In May 2024, he won the Russian 70 kg championship for the first time.

At the 2024 World Wrestling Championships in Tirana, Albania, he defeated German Kizhan Clarke 10–0 in the first round, Azerbaijani Kanan Heybatov 13–2 with technical superiority in the second round, Armenian Arman Andreasyan 2–0 in the quarter-finals and reached the semi-finals. He lost 6–1 to Japanese Yoshinosuke Aoyagi in the semi-final. In the bronze medal match, he defeated Ukrainian Vasyl Shuptar with 10-0 technical superiority and won the bronze medal.