Rustam Kazakov

Rustem Abdullajewitsch Kazakov (also Rustam Kazakov, Russian Рустем or Рустам Абдуллаевич Казаков, Uzbek Rustam Qozoqov; born January 2, 1947 in Tashkent) is a former Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1972 in Munich.

Career

Rustem Kazakov, a Krimtatar, began as a teenager with the rings. He developed into an excellent wrestler in Greco-Roman wrestling and was delegated as a member of the military to the sports club of the army Tashkent. In 1967 he finished the major international " Ivan Podubbny " tournament in Moscow bantamweight 2nd place and was then sent to the European Championships in Bucharest. There he provided certain four good fights, but lost the experienced Romanians Ion Baciu and came to the not entirely satisfactory for a Soviet wrestler 7th Place. For this reason, he made his next bet until the World Championship 1969 in Mar del Plata ( Argentina). In this World Cup a tough three-way battle developed in the bantamweight for victory between Kazakov, David Hazewinkel from the U.S. and Ion Baciu, the Kazakov decided for himself and returned as a world champion in the Soviet Union.

At the World Cup 1970 in Edmonton did not make it Kazakov, to defend his title. Although he remained unbeaten with four wins and two draw verlaufenen fighting, but had to be satisfied because of the poorer points ratio as Ion Baciu and János Varga from Hungary with the bronze medal.

1971 was Rustem Kazakov winner in the Soviet Union, an extraordinarily high value owning V. Völkerspartakiade the USSR before Anatoli Ostschepkow and Yuri Sokolov. At the World Championships the same year in Sofia he won his second world title. He was defeated, although it against János Varga, but could first defeat his nemesis Ion Baciu.

The greatest success of his career celebrated Kazakov then at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. In a very serious tournament where no wrestler remained unbeaten, he achieved his Olympic victory against the German national champion Hans -Jürgen Veil. He had previously lost to Christ Traikow from Bulgaria, but was eliminated before the final.

At the World Championships in 1973 in Tehran Kazakov launched for the last time at an international championship and found his master in a new man, Józef Lipień from Poland, who beat him on points. He became vice world champion.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantamweight, to 57 kg body weight)

Swell

• Various editions of the journal " Athletics " from the years 1967 to 1973
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976