Soslan Tigiev
Soslan Tigijew ( Uzbek Soslan Tigiyev; born October 12, 1983 in Tashkent) is an Uzbek wrestler of Ossetian origin. He won at the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 and a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London a bronze medal in the welterweight division in free style. In November 2012 his bronze medal from London was disallowed because of proven doping.
Career
Soslan Tigijew began at the age of nine years in 1992 with the rings, focusing on the free style. He comes from a family Ossetian wrestler. His brother Taimuraz won a silver medal in free -style light heavyweight at the 2008 Olympic Games. Soslan Tigijew trained in the Uzbek wrestler Centre in Tashkent. His coach is Kazbegi Dedegkajew. The 1.72 meter tall athlete competes in the welter or middleweight. He studied at the Staatl. - Gorsky University in Vladikavkaz Agricultural Sciences.
In the junior level he was at no international championships at the start. In the senior, he started for the first time in the year 2005 for those championships. He finished at the Asian Championships in Wuhan welterweight 2nd place behind the Chinese Si Riguleng. At the World Championships this year in Budapest, he arrived at the welterweight division after wins over Harutjun Jenokjan, Armenia and Yusup Abdusalamow, Tajikistan and one defeat against Joe E. Williams of the United States on the 8th Place.
In 2006 Soslan Tigijew occupied at the Asian Games in Doha welterweight behind Asghar Ali Basrighaleh from Iran and Cho Byung- Kwan from South Korea to third place. At the World Championships this year in Guangzhou, he could fully convince. He defeated there Sombir from India, but lost in his second fight against his compatriot Ossetian Ibragim Aldatow, who started for Ukraine. Thereafter, however, he still won with victories over Lee Armstrong, Australia, Krystian Brzozowski of Poland and Mikhail GANEV from Bulgaria a bronze medal. Also in 2007, he started again at the World Championships. He came in Baku after beating Andrei Schiika from Germany and one defeat against Murad Gaidarow from Belarus only on the 24th Place.
In 2008 he qualified by winning the tournament in Martigny / Switzerland welterweight before Asghar Ali Basrighaleh, Krystian Brzozowski and Kiril Tersijew from Bulgaria to participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing. In Beijing, he was in excellent form and won the welterweight over Gheorghita Stefan, Romania, Emzarios Bentinidis, Greece and Murad Gaidarow. In the final he faced the experienced Olympic champion and multiple world champion Buwaisar Saitijew from Russia, where he gave a good fight and lost with 1:2 rounds. He thus won an Olympic silver medal.
In the years 2009-2011 Soslan Tigijew started with no international championships. 2012 but he managed a comeback. He defeated his compatriot Rashid Kurbanov, who had won the ticket to the Olympics for Uzbekistan by a tournament victory in Astana, in the Uzbek Olympic excretion and therefore could go at the Olympic Games in London at the start. In London he defeated welterweight Oleg Motsalin from Greece, then was defeated by Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi of Iran and won with victories in the consolation round of Kiril Tersijew and hatos Gabor from Hungary an Olympic bronze medal.
In a sample taken during the Olympics doping test Tigijew was detected the prohibited substance Methylhexaneamine, the Olympic bronze medal was taken from him then.
International success
Legend:
- All competitions frien style
- OS = Olympic Games
- WM = World Cup
- Welterweight weight class up to 74 kg, medium weight, to 84 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "