Turkey will participate with 30 wrestlers, including Olympic champion Taha Akgul, World champion Riza Kayaalp
The World Wrestling Championships will start in Kazakhstan's capital Nursultan on Saturday.
In the first day of championship; eliminations, quarterfinals and semifinals will be held in 55, 63, 72 and 82 kilogram categories of Greco-Roman style.
Turkey will be represented by Serif Kilic in men's 55-kg, Rahman Bilici in men's 63-kg, Cengiz Arslan in men's 72-kg and Emrah Kus in men's 82-kg categories in the first day.
Also, three-time world champion wrestler Riza Kayaalp will be competing in men's 130-kg category for Turkey.
Kayaalp, in case of winning a fourth title, will be the first ever Turkish wrestler to do so in the Greco-Roman style, passing Turkish wrestling legends Hamza Yerlikaya and Selcuk Cebi.
Taha Akgul, an Olympic, World and European champion, aims to clinch the third world championship title in his career.
Akgul won the World Wrestling Championship titles in 2014 Tashkent and in 2015 Las Vegas, competing in men's 125-kg freestyle category.
In addition, top six athletes in Olympic weight classes will participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
The tournament will run until September 22.
Turkey has 30 athletes participating in the championships.
- Men's Greco-Roman:
55 kg: Serif Kilic
60 kg: Kerem Kamal
63 kg: Rahman Bilici
67 kg: Atakan Yuksel
72 kg: Cengiz Arslan
77 kg: Fatih Cengiz
82 kg: Emrah Kus
87 kg: Metehan Basar
97 kg: Cenk Ildem
130 kg: Riza Kayaalp
- Women's Freestyle:
50 kg: Evin Demirhan
53 kg: Zeynep Yetgil
55 kg: Bediha Gun
57 kg: Elif Jale Yesilirmak
59 kg: Elif Yanik
62 kg: Aslı Tugcu
65 kg: Kadriye Aksoy
68 kg: Buse Tosun
72 kg: Beste Altug
76 kg: Yasemin Adar
- Men's Freestyle :
57 kg: Süleyman Atli
61 kg: Recep Topal
65 kg: Selahattin Kilicsallayan
70 kg: Mustafa Kaya
74 kg: Soner Demirtas
79 kg: Muhammet Nuri Kotanoglu
86 kg: Fatih Erdin
92 kg: Suleyman Karadeniz
97 kg: Ibrahim Ciftci
125 kg: Taha Akgul
