Yianni Diakomihalis

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 70 kg/154 pounds

Years on Team USA: 5 (2019-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2025-26) 

Residence: Ithaca, N.Y.

Regional Training Center: Spartan Combat RTC 

Club: Titan Mercury WC

High School: Hilton, N.Y. (Hilton High School)

Born: April 11, 1999

Senior World Teams 

2022 Senior Worlds (Silver at 65 kg), 2021 Senior Worlds (12th at 65 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2016 U17 Worlds (Gold at 63 kg), 2015 U17 Worlds (Gold at 58 kg)

Career Highlights 

• World silver medalist
• Two-time U17 World champion
• Two-time Pan American champion
• Four-time NCAA National champion

Career Biography

2025: Final X runner-up … U.S. Open champion

2024: Second at Pan American Qualifier Wrestler Off

2023: Gold medalist at Pan American Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina … Bronze medalist at International D.A. Kunaev Tournament in Taraz, Kazakhstan … Final X runner-up

2022: Silver medalist at World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia … World Cup team member … Silver medalist at Zouhaier Sghaier Tournament Ranking Series event in Tunis, Tunisia … Final X champion

2021: Finished 12th at World Championships in Oslo, Norway … Gold medalist at Waclaw Ziolkowski Memorial Ranking Series event in Warsaw, Poland … Gold medalist at Henri Deglane Grand Prix of France … Senior World Team Trials champion … Placed fourth at U.S. Olympic Team Trials

2020: Gold medalist at Pan American Championships in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2019: Gold medalist at Yasar Dogu Ranking Series Event in Istanbul, Türkiye … Gold medalist at Waclaw Ziolkowski Memorial in Warsaw, Poland … Placed fourth at Senior Nationals … Final X runner-up … U.S. Open champion

2017: Placed third at U.S. Open in UWW Junior division

2016: Gold medalist at U17 World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia … UWW Cadet Freestyle Nationals champion … Placed third at UWW Junior Nationals

2015: Gold medalist at U17 World Championships in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina … UWW Cadet Freestyle Nationals champion

College: Four-time NCAA National champion … Four-time NCAA All-American … Four-time EIWA champion … Two-time Hodge Trophy finalist

High School: Four-time New York state champion … Finished high school with a record of 243-3 … Closed high school career with a state record 210-match win streak … Helped Hilton to four team state titles … Five-time team captain

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2015 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional Junior champion … 2014 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional Cadet Freestyle champion, third in Greco-Roman

Personal: Son of Ilias and Gina Diakomihalis … Has two younger brothers

Awards: Four-time Ivy League Wrestler of the Year … 2018 Ivy League Freshman of the Year … Four-time Democrat and Chronicle All-Greater Rochester Division I Wrestler of the Year … New York state winner of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award