Anzor Adamovich Boltukayev (russian: Анзор Адамович Болтукаев; born 5 April 1986 in
Chechnya) is a Russian freestyle wrestler of
Chechen descent. He competes in the
96 kg division and won the bronze medal in the same division at the
2013 World Wrestling Championships
The 2013 World Wrestling Championships was the 9th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and were held from September 16 to 22 in Budapest, Hungary.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco- ...
defeated
Aleksey Krupnyakov
Aleksey Krupnyakov (born May 28, 1978) is a male freestyle wrestler from Kyrgyzstan
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of
Kyrgyzstan
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.
At the "
Ivan Yarygin 2016" he beat the current World Champion
Kyle Snyder and Olympic gold medalist
Jake Varner
Jacob Stephen "Jake" Varner (born March 24, 1986) is an American wrestler. Varner won the gold medal in the 96 kg category at the 2012 Summer Olympics in freestyle wrestling.
Varner wrestled collegiately for the Iowa State University Cyc ...
of USA.
In the
2016 European Wrestling Championships
The 2016 European Wrestling Championships were held in Riga, Latvia, from 8 March to 13 March 2016.
Medal overview
Medal table
Team ranking
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle
References
External links
Official site< ...
he won the gold medal against Ivan Yankouski of
Belarus
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.
He competed at
Olympics 2016 in the
freestyle 97 kg event and was eliminated by
Valerii Andriitsev
Valerii Oleksandrovych Andriitsev ( uk, Валерій Олександрович Андрійцев; born 27 February 1987 in Kozelets) is a male freestyle wrestler from Ukraine. He won the silver medal in the Men's freestyle 96 kg at 2012 Sum ...
of
Ukraine
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in the 1/8 final.
Boltukayev failed a drugs test at the
2017 European Wrestling Championships testing positive for
higenamine
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. His subsequent result was disqualified and his silver medal was revoked, he was also banned for two years from 13 September 2018.
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Russian male sport wrestlers
Chechen martial artists
Russian people of Chechen descent
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
1986 births
Living people
European Wrestling Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Grozny
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