In any event, I'm happy to oblige.
Djamal Otarsultanov 55 kg
Yakuts make up about half the population of The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic and their numbers are growing. Yakuts are aTurkic-speaking people (see Rebirth of the Turkic Dynasty: origins in this blog).
The Yakuts have a long and brutal history with Russians, and their numbers are now growing, along with a revival of their Turkic heritage. Djamal Otarsultanov says, on his facebook page, that he believes that the Republic is a member of the Turkic Council; I think that is wishful thinking, and it may indicate the enthusiasm Turkic-speaking people have for the creation of a new, improved Turkic Empire.
Yakutsk, the capitol of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, is about 450 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, and has a population of about 210,000 folks.
[A Voice of Russia radio post has Djamal coming from Chechnya, contradicting the facebook entry. The lack of information on all champion Russian wrestlers is puzzling, for wrestlers are much honored in Russia and there is good reason to be proud of them. I would like to understand the information gap.]
Some folks at least, from whatever part of Russia, are avid supporters of Otarsultanov and attend his matches to cheer him on, his facebook page indicates..
The next two images are taken from Djamal's facebook page:
Djamal Otarsultanov, as he sees himself
Facebook title image
This image is taken from ZONA DE LUCHA,
which has good images and videos from the
European Wrestling Championships.
Besik Kudukhov 60 kg
Wikipedia notes that Besik Kudukhov was born in Tskhilon, Georgia, but it may be Tskhilon, South Ossetia, which is more nearly Russian and probably would not result on qualification challenges.
We know, from information provided to Beijing at the last Olympics, the following:
General Interests
Occupation: Athlete
Marital status: Single
Club name: SC Alany: Russia
Coach: Valentin Andreevich Gozoev, Aleksey Invanovich Safronov (iat.uni-leipzig.de 09/06/08)
Education: Human Movement Studies - North Ossetian State University: Russia
Language spoken: Russian
Town
and Gown
And we know that, pound for pound, Besik Kudukhov is he greatest wrestler in the world.
Besik's Medal record is stunning:
Medal record | ||
---|---|---|
Men's Freestyle wrestling | ||
Competitor for Russia | ||
Summer Olympics | ||
Bronze | 2008 Beijing | 55 kg |
World Championships | ||
Silver | 2006 Guangzhou | 55 kg |
Gold | 2007 Baku | 55 kg |
Gold | 2009 Herning | 60 kg |
Gold | 2010 Moscow | 60 kg |
Gold | 2011 Istanbul | 60 kg |
European Championships | ||
Gold | 2007 Sofia | 55 kg |
Images from the web for Besik include:
From the Beijing Olympics files
Tomohiro Matsunaga (blue) shows Besik Kudukhov a good time
Besik Kudukhov and Vvasyl Fedoryshyn
Alan Gogayev 66 kg
The Voice of Russia radio post, above, has Alan coming from Ossetia (bee above). I can find no other personal information about Alan on the web.
There are images:
Although there is not much information about Alan on the Web, there are lots of videos of the 2010 World Championship match in which the Indian, Sushil Kumar, defeated Alan, much to Indian delight, for it was the first World Championship ever won by an Indian.
This screen clip below of a news broadcast published youtube shows Sushil Kumar practicing the Indian wrestling sport of pehlwani, also called kushti. It will be the subject of a later blog post, but if you want a preview, see sample images after the jump.
Sushil Kumar, the only Indian to win a gold medal in
FIFA World Cup Freestyle Wrestling, practicing
Kushti, a wrestling form similar to pehlwani hat combines
Iranian wrestling with yoga,
and is much admired in India and Pakistan.
Kumar himself is much admired in India,
just as all the Russian wrestlers are admired in Russia.
Denis Igorevich Tsargush 74 kg
Denis was born in Abkhazia and lives there now.
Abkhazia was a paart of Georgia until 2008, when it becam an independent nation, or remained a part of Georgia, or became federated with Russia, dpending on whom you ask.
The international football ("soccer" for you North Americans) association, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, has ruled that Abkhazia cannot paarticipate in World Cup football games. FIFA describes Abkhazia as "Occupied Abkhazia." I cannot find a ruling of any sort from the Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées, the governing body for international wrestling. If there has been a FIFA challenge it has obviously no been sustained.
Denis has an impressive medal record:
Medal record | ||
---|---|---|
Competitor for Russia | ||
Men's Freestyle Wrestling | ||
World Championships | ||
Gold | 2009 Herning | 74 kg |
Gold | 2010 Moscow | 74 kg |
European Championships | ||
Gold | 2010 Baku | 74 kg |
Gold | Dortmund 2011 | 74 kg |
Abkhazia can be a place of great beauty.
Image from Denis' facebook. A lovely land.
Not so lovely during the five-day war in 2008.
Wrestling images and images from Denis' facebook include:
Anzor Urishev 84 kg
A facebook page has Anzor coming from Nalchik, the capital city of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia.
A blog called CHECHENCENTER, which may not he completely objective, reports that on June 20, 2011,
The Human Rights Center “Memorial” has learned that on June 12, 2011, mass arrests of youth took place in the town of Baksan in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic (KBR) during an operation to apprehend the boeviks responsible for the death of Col. Kh. Bagatyrev, Deputy Chief of the Center for Combating Extremism. . . .
though fhe abardino-Balkar Republic is a beautiful part of the World:
Though there is not much informatin on the web aabout Anzor, there are some interestinimages of him:
From Anzor's facebook page
The next eight images are from a match between Urishev and Balawender by DortmundEuropeanFreestyleWrestlingChampionship
FCF (Freestyle Cage Fighting) - MMA (Mixed Martial Aarts) is known in Kabardino-Balkar Republic and in Oklahoma:
The boys start young . . . .
I would like to know what this ceremony is about . . .
Very young by US standards . . .
. . . but football is the favored sport, as it is in all the world --- outside of North America:
PFC Spartak Nalchik at
Lokomotiv Stadium on June 14, 2011 in Moscow
∼∼∼∼∼∼∼∼∼∼
2010 Eussian squad
55 lebedev, 66 gogaev, 84 ktsoev, 120 makhov,
head coach tedeev, 96 gatsalov, 74 tsargush, 60 kudukhov
2010 Iranian squad
120 masoumi, 96 amiri, 84 lashgari,
74 goudarzi, 66 taghavi, 60 mohammadi, 55 rahimi
∼∼∼∼∼∼∼∼∼∼
Abdusalam Gadisov 96 hg
Abdusalam is from the Russian Republic of Dagestan.
From Zona de Lucha:
El campeón de Europa de 96kg, Abdusalam Gadisov, se proclamó campeón nacional de Rusia el pasado fin de semana en San Petersburgo tras derrotar en la final al campeón olímpico de 2004, Khadzhimurad Gatsalov, en un apretadísimo choque que garantizó al dagestaní, además, una plaza en el equipo olímpico ruso para los próximos Juegos de Londres.
Machine translation as:
The European Champion 96kg, Abdusalam Gadisov, proclaimed national champion Russia last weekend in St. Petersburg in the final after beating Olympic champion of 2004, Khadzhimurad Gatsalov, in a crushing shock assured the Dagestani also a place in the Russian Olympic team for the next Games in London.
If you want to see the match, go to the link in the Spanish-language quotation.
For a dispassionate overview of the interesting politics of the area see a Der Spiegel article. For a blog about human beheadings in the area, named Human Beheadings, see here.
Other than that he lives in Dagestan, there is no information on Russia's national champion that I can see on the Web and I can't understand the absence.
Dagestan is, perhaps, more focused on wrestling than any other in Russia.
Living is perhaps more intense, for good and ill, in Dagetan than in many other Republica in Russia. The capital city, Makhachkala, is a study of contrasts:
I think the scenes of destruction are of
government building or in the Shia section of the city.
Makhachkala is no stranger to massacres. This one from 1542
Football, as usual, is king. Here the FC Anzhi Makhachkala
Mourning a massacre
A recently-signed Bulgarian to the local team
For a video of Abdusalam relaxed and sparing, to go a video site on Zona de Lucha.
Images of Russia's champion:
The first of several self-portraits . . . .
Zona de Luca image
These images are from Wrestling Arena
Bilyal Valerievich Makhov 120 kg
Bilyal is, like his team mate Anzor Urishev, also hails from Nalchick, The Kabardino-Balkar Republic, and like Anzor, there is no other significant information, aside from math descriptions and videos of matches.
Images include:
Kushti and pehlwani are traditional sports of
India and Pakistan.
To see a "trailer" of forthcoming blog posts . . .
This image is from Terri Gold World Imagery
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