Seyfula Seferovich Magomedov (russian: Сейфула Сеферович Магомедов; born May 15, 1983, in
Makhachkala,
Dagestan ASSR) is a Russian
taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the men's flyweight category, the first ever four-time European Taekwondo Champion.
Emerging as Russia's most decorated taekwondo player of all time, Magomedov accrued a set of twenty-one medals in his sporting career, including four European men's flyweight titles, three bronzes from the
World Championships, and a single gold from the
2005 Summer Universiade
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in
Izmir, Turkey.
Magomedov was also selected to compete for the Russian taekwondo team at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens, where he finished only in the opening round of the men's 58-kg division.
Magomedov qualified for the Russian squad in the
men's flyweight class (58 kg) at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens. Earlier in the process, he boosted a gold-medal victory over Great Britain's
Paul Green to secure his place on the Russian team from the European Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
Baku, Azerbaijan, before his British rival sought revenge on him to a vicious defeat at the European Championships in
Lillehammer, Norway a few months later. Magomedov missed his chance to reinstate another glory over Green for the quarterfinal match, after crashing out in a disgraceful 10–12 defeat to Vietnam's
Nguyễn Quốc Huân in the opening round. With his Vietnamese opponent losing the semifinals to Mexico's
Óscar Salazar, Magomedov shortened his hopes to aim for Russia's first Olympic taekwondo medal in the repechage.
In 2005, Magomedov improved from his ill-fated Olympic feat to strike Iran's Majid Sajjadi with a 5–1 record for his first ever career gold medal in the 54-kg division at the
Summer Universiade in
Izmir, Turkey, adding this accolade to two bronzes each from the World and European Championships.
[ The following year, he reached the summit of his sporting career by obtaining his first European men's flyweight title in Bonn, Germany, defeating his Azerbaijani opponent Zahid Mammadov.
Magomedov sought a bid on his second debut for the ]2008 Summer Olympics
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in Beijing, but he fell behind Portugal's Pedro Povoa in the quarterfinal match at the European Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.
At the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships
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Medal summary
Men
Women
Medal table
Team ranki ...
in Gyeongju
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, South Korea, Magomedov lost the semifinal match 5–7 to Thailand's Chutchawal Khawlaor in the men's finweight division, but had to settle only for the bronze medal on the Russian taekwondo team. Despite missing out a bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
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on his second attempt, Magomedov managed to defend his gold medal for the fourth straight time in the 54-kg division at the European Championships
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in Manchester, England.
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1983 births
Living people
Russian male taekwondo practitioners
Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Russia
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Taekwondo Championships medalists
European Taekwondo Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in taekwondo
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia
Sportspeople from Makhachkala
Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
20th-century Russian people
21st-century Russian people