Khasan Baroyev

Chassan Macharbekowitsch Barojew (Russian Хасан Махарбекович Бароев; born December 1, 1982 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan ) is a Russian wrestler of Ossetian origin. The 1.88-meter sports student wrestles with Torpedo Moscow and is coached by Vladimir Urumagow since the age of 16

Career

Prior to his career as a senior, he started first time in 1999 at the World Championships Cadets ( age class in the sport), then still in the class to 85 kg. He finished second behind the Turks Adem Tasci. Between 2000 and 2002 he started as a junior twice each at European and World Championships; In 2000 he became World Junior Champion, 2001, both junior European as well as world champion. In 2002, he launched one last time as a junior and was a second time European champions. Meanwhile, he started in the highest weight class, the heavy weight that from 2002 its weight limit at 120 kg body weight.

In 2003, he began thus for the first time as a senior at the European Championships in Belgrade. He was seventh. But in the same year, he then succeeded with the world champion title, the big surprise. He defeated among others, thereby the Olympic champion from 2000 Rulon Gardner of the United States and Hungary Mihaly Deak Bardos. He could excel at the Olympic Games this success next year in Athens. He won all his fights there and thus won the gold medal. In the final, he defeated the Kazakhs Georgi Tsurtsumia, after he had previously beaten the favored Cubans Mijan Nunez Lopez ..

In 2005, he paused at the international championships and in 2006 he had at the European Championships in his native Moscow to bury his title dreams after a surprise defeat against Juha Ahokas of Finland. In the same year, however, he won the # 1 spot at the World Championships in Guangzhou. In the final he defeated this Mijaín López Núñez superior to 13-0 on points.

2007 Chassan Barojew was in Sofia again European Champion, defeating amongst other things Jalmar Sjöberg from Sweden and David Vala from the Czech Republic. At the World Championships in Baku this year he won the semi-finals on the strength of the U.S. Americans Dremiel Byers, but had to fight for victory his old rival Mijain Lopez Nunez beaten and therefore only came on the 2nd place. In the Olympic year 2008, he had a defeat against his Russian compatriot Yuri Patrikeyev, who started for Kazakhstan, accept and thus came to 2nd place at the European Championships in Tampere in the final. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, he was a finalist again Mijain Lopez Nunez over and again lost on points, so that he could not repeat his Olympic victory in 2004 and had to be satisfied with the silver medal.

The year 2009 saw Chassan Barojew with no international championships at the start. But in 2010 he launched a comeback that initially but only half succeeded. Although he was a Russian heavyweight champion before Alexander Ekimov, Oleg Ilnizki and Anton Botev, but had to concede defeat to the largely unknown Kazakhs Nurmachan Tinalijew on points at the World Championships in Moscow after beating Yannick Szczepaniak of France and Hani Sala Abdel Rahman Muralfy from Egypt and therefore only landed on the 7th Place.

In 2011 he was nominated for a victory at the prestigious Ivan Poddubny Memorial in Tyumen front of the entire Russian Schwergewichtlerelite again for the European Championships in Dortmund and won there with victories in the crucial battles over Mihaly Deak Bardos, Heiki Nabi of Estonia and the defending Riza Kayaalp from Turkey, again the title. At the World Championships 2011 in Istanbul, he was not at the start.

2012 tried Chassan Barojew at the European Championships in Belgrade to defend his title from 2011. This he did not succeed, because he lost in the final battle, this time against Riza Kayaalp and had this left the title. Then he tried to fight for a place in the London Olympics in the heavyweight division for the Russian team at the tournament in Sofia. But he did not succeed, because he finished in Sofia only the 8th Place. Not until the very last possibility, the Qualifying Tournament in Helsinki, he won the victory and the start authorization for the Olympic Games in London. In London, had but he disappointed, for he lost his first fight the same against his old rival Yuri Patrikeyev. Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and finished only 14th place.

International success

Notes

• All competitions in the Greco-Roman style
• OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, European Championships EM =
• Light Heavyweight weight class up to 2001-97 kg since 2002-96 kg; Heavyweight weight class up to 2001 up to 130 kg, since 2002 up to 120 kg body weight

Swell

• Journal The Ringer
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
• Site of the Russian Federation Ringer " www.wrestrus.ru "