In 2017, he initially won one of the bronze medals in the 97 kg event at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships; this became a silver medal after the original winner of the silver medal, Anzor Boltukayev from Russia, was disqualified and deprived of the medal due to doping. In 2018, he did win the silver medal in the 97 kg event at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships held in Kaspiysk, Russia. In 2019, he repeated this with the silver medal in the 97 kg event at the 2019 European Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest, Romania.