David Musulbes is a famous Georgian freestyle wrestler. He has the title of Honored Master of Sports. He played at international tournaments for the national teams of Russia and Slovakia. Olympic champion.
Athlete Biography
Musulbes David was born in 1972 in Ordzhonikidze, in the capital of North Ossetia. He started playing sports at school when he was 10 years old. He lived a few steps from the sports complex "Trud". In this room, he was engaged in a 10-year-old boy and was preparing for the Olympic Games in 2008.
For victories, he was prepared by mentors Savely Byazrov, two-time world champion, and Kazbek Dedegkaev, USSR master of sports.
First successes
David Musulbes won his first serious victory in 1993, when he was 21 years old. He became the champion of Russia in the prestigious weight category up to 100 kilograms.
In 1994 he went to the world champion in Istanbul, where he won a bronze medal. The winner of the tournament was the German Aravat Sabeev, the second place was taken by Azerbaijani Davud Magomedov.
In 1995, David Musulbes won gold at the European Championship in the French town of Besancon. In the decisive match he defeats the Slovak Milan Mazaz. In this case, the athlete goes into a more "heavy" category - up to 120 kilograms. In the same season she wins the World Cup, and a couple of years later she receives the title of Honored Master of Sports. His achievements were appreciated.
David Musulbes, whose biography was forever connected with sports, had every chance to go to the Olympic Games back in 1996, when the competitions were held in Atlanta. However, at the last moment he was overboard the national team.
Sydney Olympics
By 2004, Musulbes won another bronze medal at the World Cup, becoming the two-time European champion. At the Olympics in Australia, Sydney comes in the rank of one of the favorites of the tournament. At competitions, he performs in the most prestigious category - up to 130 kilograms.
In the semifinals, he is opposed by the Iranian wrestler Jadidi. The fight goes with the advantage of Musulbes, but they manage to win only on points, but dry, 3-0.
In a parallel battle, Uzbek Arthur Taymazov receives a "carcass" rating for his reception against Cuban Rodriguez.
The fate of the gold medal is decided by Russian and Uzbek. At the same time, David Musulbes, whose nationality is Georgian, has never played for Georgia, giving preference to the Russian team. The result of the battle 5: 2 in favor of David. The hero of our article becomes the Olympic champion. This gold medal was the last for the Russian team at that Olympics and 32 in the team event.
Preparing for the next Olympics
Musulbes was a serious contender for victory in his weight category on the eve of the next Olympics, which took place in Athens in 2004. He won two world championships in a row, but did not get into the national team. Not by sporting principle, but because of some intrigues that reigned at that time in the team.
He received recognition not only in Russia but also abroad. For example, in Bulgaria he was awarded the symbolic title of the best freestyle athlete. In 2003, David Musulbes could not arrange a third victory at the world championships. Freestyle wrestling significantly lost in entertainment at the tournament, which was held in American New York. Musulbes, like another eminent wrestler, also a Russian citizen Buvaysar Saitiev, was denied a US visa. All this negatively affected his condition, he even thought about ending his professional career. He even became at one time the head coach of the Russian national team, having worked in this post for three years.
Return to the carpet
In 2008, David Musulbes, whose photo more than once graced the first pages of sports publications, decides to return to big sport. He becomes a member of the Slovak national freestyle wrestling team, and as part of this team goes to the Olympics in Beijing.
It is surprising that Musulbes resumed training just six months before the start of the Olympic Games. At the European championship in Finnish Tampere, the first after a long break, he only reaches the final in which he loses. However, after the end of the competition it turns out that his opponent in the decisive match had a positive doping test. He is deprived of awards, Musulbes becomes the champion.
Beijing Olympics
In August 2008, he arrives at the Beijing Olympics at the age of 36. He begins his journey with the 1/8 finals, where he is opposed by the Nigerian Wilson Sewari. Musulbes wins with a clear 9-0 lead.
In the quarter-finals, he gets to his opponents the more experienced Hungarian Otto Aubeli, a bronze medalist at the World and European Championships. The newly made Slovak wrestler wins with a more modest score - 4: 1.
In the semifinal match he falls on his eternal rival - Uzbek Artur Taymazov. Musulbes in every possible way resists, but does not earn a single point, while the judges accrue two points to his opponent.
The last opportunity to win an Olympic medal is a battle for third place. Musulbes meets with Cuban Disney Rodriguez, who lost on the eve of the Russian Bakhtiyar Akhmedov.
Musulbes wins a landslide victory 8: 2. And he brings the bronze medal in freestyle wrestling to the piggy bank of the Slovak national team. By the way, Taymazov won in the finals in the weight category up to 120 kilograms, he was stronger than Akhmedov - 4-0.
Currently, David Musulbes has returned to Russia from Slovakia. He works in the capital, under the management of the Moscow Sports Committee, under the leadership of Alexei Vorobyov. In his area of responsibility is the secondary specialized school of the Olympic reserve No. 1.