Sergey Vadimovich Kozyrev (russian: Сергей Вадимович Козырев; born 18 September 2002) is a Russian

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who competes at 125 kilograms. He broke into the senior level scene in 2021, when he claimed the Russian National Championship, earned silver at the European Continental Championships and qualified to compete at the

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by winning the World Olympic Qualification Tournament. In the age–group, he became the 2018 Youth Olympic champion at 110 kilograms.

Career

In 2018, Kozyrev claimed the Cadet European Championship, placed third at the Cadet World Championships and most notably claimed the Youth Olympic championship when he defeated

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ian phenom and reigning Cadet World Champion

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in the finale. He made his international senior level debut by placing eleventh at the

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, and later in the year went on to place tenth at the 2020 Russian National Championships at 97 kilograms. The following year, he burst into the scene by claiming the 2021 Russian National Championship, upsetting two–time National champion and '19 European Games gold medalist from Chechnya Anzor Khizriev in the semifinals and beating Atsamaz Tebloev in the finale. Next, he competed at the 2021 European Championships, where after wins over Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi and Dániel Ligeti, he went on to lose to three–time Olympic and World Champion from Turkey Taha Akgül, who claimed his tenth European Continental Championship, claiming silver. Kozyrev competed at the 2021 World Olympic Qualification Tournament, and after consecutive wins over '20 Bulgarian National runner–up Georgi Ivanov, '20 Individual World Cup runner–up

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and two–time European Championship medalist Dániel Ligeti, he was able to cruise to the finals, thus

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for the

. He won his match against '18 Commonwealth Games gold medalist from India Sumit Malik by

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on May 7. Malik then tested positive for doping and was disqualified. On 5 August, Kozyrev competed as an independent athlete due to Russia's ban from the

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, on the first date of the men's freestyle 125 kg event of the

. In the first match, he was downed by two-time World medalist

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, who lost his next match, being eliminated from the Games and placing eleventh.

Major results

Freestyle record

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kozyrev, Sergey Living people 2002 births Place of birth missing (living people) Russian male sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia European Wrestling Championships medalists Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers for Russia 21st-century Russian people