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Wrestling At The 2008 Summer Olympics
Wrestling competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, were held at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium from 12–21 August 2008. It was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories. Men competed in both disciplines whereas women only took part in the freestyle events with 18 gold medals being awarded. This was the second Olympics with women's wrestling as an event. Qualification Medalists Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle * Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after failing an anti-doping retest. United World Wrestling has reallocated medals accordingly. IOC Sanctions Wrestlers for Anti-Doping Violations at Beijing 2008 and London 2012https://unitedworldwrestling.org/DataBase United World Wrestling DataBase * Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after faili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Agricultural University Gymnasium
The China Agricultural University Gymnasium () is an indoor arena located on the campus of the China Agricultural University in Beijing. It hosted the wrestling events of the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... The Gymnasium's rooftop has a staggered, stair-like design. It covers an area of 23,950 square metres and has a capacity of 8,200 which was reduced to 6,000 after the events. It was also turned into a sports complex for students of the China Agricultural University after the Olympic Games. Construction started the first half of 2005 and was completed in July 2007. References Official website Venues of the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestling venues Sports venues in Beijing Indoor arenas in China University sports venues in Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramazan Şahin
Ramazan Şahin (born Ramzan Irbaikhanov, russian: Рамзан Ирбайханов, on 8 July 1983) is a Russian-Turkey, Turkish freestyle Sport wrestling, wrestler of Chechen people, Chechen descent. He won gold medals at the 2007 World Championships, 2008 European Championships, and 2008 Summer Olympics, placing fifth in 2012. From February 2019 head coach of Turkmenistan national wrestling team. Career He competed for the Istanbul-based club Tekelspor, and then transferred to İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K. Born in Khasavyurt in the North Caucasus, North Caucasian federal subject Dagestan of the Soviet union, he emigrated in 2005 to Turkey with the help of his uncle İshak İrbayhanov, manager of the Turkey national freestyle wrestling team. In 2006, Ramazan was naturalized with the initiative of Mehmet Ali Şahin, then Minister responsible for Sports and changed his family name to Şahin in respect of his patron. Coach career After the completion of his sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgi Gogshelidze
Giorgi Gogshelidze (born 7 November 1979 in Gori) is a Georgian wrestler, who has won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References bio on fila-wrestling.com* External links * Male sport wrestlers from Georgia (country) Olympic wrestlers of Georgia (country) Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Georgia (country) Living people 1979 births Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Wrestling Championships medalists Olympic silver medalists for Georgia (country) European Wrestling Championships medalists World Wrestling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirvani Muradov
Shirvani Gadzhikurbanovich Muradov ( lbe, Ширвани Гаджикурбанович Мурадов; born 20 June 1985 in Dagestan) is a Russian wrestler, who has won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ... and European champion 2007. Shirvani is Lak heritage. References The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Ketoev
Georgy Ketoyev ( os, Четиты Важайы фырт Геуæрги; born 19 November 1985 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is a Russian naturalized Armenian freestyle wrestler of Ossetian descent. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, beaten by Revaz Mindorashvili of Georgia whom Ketoev had previously beaten. The Russian took the gold medal at the World Championship in Baku (2007) in the 84 kg category, by defeating Jousop Abdusalomov of Tajikistan. It was Ketoev's first time as a world teamer. He won the spot on the Russian team over past World Champions Sazhid Sazhidov and Adam Saitiev Adam Hamidovich Saitiev, also spelled Saytiev, ( ce, Адам Хамидович Сайтиев, born December 12, 1977) is a Russian wrestler of Chechen descent who won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics for the Russian Federation at 85 kg c .... Ketoev won the Junior World Championship in 2005 and had only one finish below first in world-level competition, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taras Danko
Taras Hryhoriyovych Danko (Тарас Григорійович Данько; born July 3, 1980, in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian wrestler, who has won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... ReferencesTaras Danko's profile at ESPN External links * Olympic wrestlers for Ukraine[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yusup Abdusalomov
Yusup Rashidovich Abdusalamov (russian: Юсуп Рашидович Абдусаламов; born November 8, 1977; Dagestan) is a USSR-born Russian and Tajik wrestler, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Career Having won the freestyle wrestling title in his weight category at the 2003 Asian championship, Abdusalomov made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he finished 9th place overall in the men's freestyle 74kg category. He followed this the following year with a relatively disappointing 13th place in the 2005 FILA Wrestling World Championships in Budapest. Abdusalamov was to improve on this at the 2007 World Championships in Baku where he claimed second place, having moved up to the 84 kg weight category. At the next Olympics in 2008 Beijing, he repeated his good form from the world championships to claim the silver medal in the 84kg category. In the 2012 Summer Olympics, however, he was unable to achieve a medal after having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revaz Mindorashvili
Revaz Mindorashvili ( ka, რევაზ მინდორაშვილი, born July 1, 1976) is a Georgian wrestler, who has won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na .... ReferencesThe Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games External links * 1976 births Male sport wrestlers from Georgia (country) Olympic wrestlers for Georgia (country) Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Georgia (country) Living people Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Wrestling Championships medalists {{Georgia-Olympic-medalist-stub Recipients of the Presidential Order of Excellence European Wrestling Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiril Terziev
Kiril Stoychev Terziev ( bg, Кирил Стойчев Терзиев; born 1 September 1983, in Petrich) is a Bulgarian freestyle wrestler. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ... in his category (up to 74 kg). He is a representative for Bulgarian company TRYMAX. References * Living people 1983 births Olympic wrestlers of Bulgaria Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria People from Petrich Olympic medalists in wrestling Macedonian Bulgarians Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Bulgaria Bulgarian male sport wrestlers Sportspeople from Blago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghiță Ștefan
Gheorghiță Ștefan (also known as Ștefan Gheorghiță, born January 17, 1986, in Bucharest) is a male freestyle wrestler from Romania. He participated in men's freestyle 74 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. He lost the bronze medal fight against Murad Gaidarov. However, after a positive doping test Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan was in November 2016 stripped of the silver medal. Ștefan Gheorghiță was therefore moved up to a bronze medal position. In 2016, he married Romanian judoka Corina Căprioriu Corina Căprioriu (; born 18 July 1986) is a Romanian judoka. She has competed under the name Corina Ștefan since her 2016 marriage to Romanian wrestler Gheorghiță Ștefan. Căprioriu won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She lo .... References External links * * * * * STEFAN Gheorghita (family name: STEFAN, given name: Gheorghita)at Universiade 2013 1986 births Living people Romanian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of Romania Olympic bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murad Gaidarov
Murad Gaidarov ( be, Мурад Гайдараў, russian: Мурад Гайдаров; born February 13, 1980, in Khasavyurt, Dagestan), also known as Murad Haidarau, is an Avar Russian - Belarusian wrestler. Gaidarov was disqualified from 2004 Summer Olympics for retaliating after he was defeated at the quarterfinals and assaulted his opponent, Buvaisar Saitiev, off the arena floor. Gaidarov won the bronze medal in men's 74 kg freestyle wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but after a failed drug test by Soslan Tigiev, he won a silver medal. He has an older brother Gaidar Gaidarov who is second coach of Dagestan wrestling team and the Italian national team. He began coaching Indian wrestler Deepak Punia in 2018. He was dismissed from his position by the Wrestling Federation of India in 2021 after assaulting a referee at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was expelled from the Games by the IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC; frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buvaisar Saitiev
Buvaisar Hamidovich Saitiev, also spelled Buvaysar Hamidovich Saytiev, (russian: Бувайсар Хамидович Сайтиев, ce, Сайт КIант Бувайса) (born March 11, 1975, in Khasavyurt, Dagestan ASSR) is a Russian retired Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler of Chechens, Chechen heritage, who represented Russia, and List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling#9 World Level Championships, won nine world-level gold medals in freestyle wrestling (second most, behind Aleksandr Medved's ten). He is widely considered as the greatest freestyle wrestler of all time. He currently is an acting State Duma Deputy from Dagestan. Life In 1992, Buvaisar left his hometown of Khasavyurt, Dagestan in order to train at a prestigious wrestling center in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. His younger brother Adam Saitiev would follow in his footsteps. Soon after graduating from the training center, Saitiev began his quest to represent Russia on the world stage. Buvai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
