Besik Kudukhov
Besik Serodinowitsch Kuduchow (Russian Бесик Серодинович Кудухов, scientific transliteration Besik Serodinovič Kuduchov; born August 15, 1986 in Kvemo Zchiloni, Rajon Akhalgori, Soviet Union, † December 29, 2013 in Armavir ) was a Russian wrestler. He was four -time World Champion (2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011) and winner of a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in free style bantamweight and featherweight.
Career
Besik Kuduchow lived in Beslan, North Ossetia. He started there as a teenager at SC Alany with the rings. He concentrates remain fully on the free style. His coaches are Valentin Gozojew and Alexei Safronov. At a size of 1.64 m and weighs about 60 kg, but trained at the major competitions in the bantamweight (up to 55 kg body weight ) from. In addition to the rings, which is his source of income, he studied at the State University of North Ossetia sport. The Russian national team of freestyle wrestler he is a member since 2005.
However, his international career began in 2003 with the title at the European Junior Championship ( Cadets ) in Skopje in the weight class up to 50 kg body weight before Isa Sari, Turkey and Adrian Mosa, Romania. In 2005, he was then even junior world champion bantamweight in Vilnius. He defeated Among other things, the American Henry Cejudo and in the finale the Japanese Yasuhiro Inaba.
In 2006, he took in a World Cup tournament in Sari, Iran, bantamweight behind the Cuban Rene Montero to second place. In the same year he was then already in the Senior World Championships in Guangzhou / China Bantamweight used. He defeated there Pham Duc Khang from Vietnam, Vinad Kumar from India, Kim Hyo -sub from South Korea and Namig Abdullayev from Azerbaijan. In the final, but he was subject to the experienced Bulgarians Radoslaw Welikow on points and thus became vice - world champion.
2007 won the competition Besik Kuduchow bantamweight in the very important Russian wrestler international " Ivan Yarigin " tournament in Krasnoyarsk. He won there in front of his compatriot Jamal Otarsultanow, Henry Cejudo and Nikolai Starostin, Russia. Then he won at the 2007 European Championship in Sofia also his first international championship in the seniors. He suggested in Sofia Radoslaw Welikow equal in the first fight, then won continues to Mihran Jaburjan, Armenia, Namig Sewchimow from Azerbaijan and Bessarion Gotschaschwili from Georgia. In the final battle, he was also the German Marcel Ewald no chance. The fact that this success was no fluke, he proved also at the 2007 World Championships in Baku, because he won there as well superior to the world champion title. Along the way, he defeated Mikael Japaridze from Canada, Anil Kumar from India III, Freddy Serrano from Colombia, Andy Yoen Morneo Gonzalez from Cuba, Dilshod Mansurov from Uzbekistan and Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar from Mongolia.
In 2008 Besik Kuduchow won again at the " Ivan Yarigin " tournament in Krasnoyarsk bantamweight. He pointed his countrymen Jamal Otarsultanow and Babazar Askerbijew and the American Victor Moreno to the places. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he defeated in the first fight his opponent in the final of the 2007 World Cup Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar and then Dabbaghi Souraki from Iran each safely on points. But then he lost surprisingly the Japanese Tomohiro Matsunaga, against whom he found no setting. But in the battle for the bronze medal he succeeded again a victory over Dilshod Mansurov.
In 2009 Besik changed Kuduchow for weight problems in the featherweight. He managed this jump smoothly. Although he had to content themselves with a World Cup tournament at the beginning of the year in Tehran even with a third place behind Zelimkhan Chusseinow from Azerbaijan and Evgeni Chawilow from Ukraine, but in September 2009 he was already fully integrated in the new weight class and fetched in Herning / Denmark with five wins the world title at featherweight. On the way, he defeated among others in the semifinals Wassyl Fedoryschyn from Ukraine just 2-1 rounds at 3-1 techn. Points. His victory in the final over Zelimkhan Chusseinow was but 2-0 rounds and 6-0 techn. Points safely.
2010 Besik Kuduchow was in Moscow again world featherweight champion. In the decisive battles he defeated while Sayed Mourad Pahnekalaei Mohammadi from Iran and Wassyl Fedoryschyn from Ukraine.
In the Russian championship in 2011, he won the featherweight title before Opan Sat, Timur Pesterew and Rassoul Murtsalijew. In Istanbul, he picked up a few months later his fourth World Cup title. In the decisive battles he defeated this Ken'ichi Yumoto from Japan, Didier Pais from France and Franklin Gomez of Puerto Rico.
At the 2012 Olympic Games in London if he started his successes as a favorite. It was this position initially meet and defeated Yogeshwar Dutt from India, Masoud Mahmoud Esmaeilpoorjouybari from Iran and Ri Jong Myonk from North Korea. In the final he met the young Azerbaijanis Togrul Asgarow, he lost to on points. He therefore had to be content with the silver medal.
Kuduchow came the end of December 2013 in a road accident on a highway between Krasnodar and Vladikavkaz killed.
International success
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
- Bantam weight is weight class up to 55 kg, spring weight to 60 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal The wrestler from 2003 to 2008
- Website " www.iat.uni -leipzig.de " (now Foeldeak Wrestling Database )
- Website " results.beijing2008.cn "