Uzbekistan Sportsmans Victories at the Beijing Olympic Games
Artur Taymazov from Uzbekistan defended his title in the Men’s Freestyle Wrestling 120 kilogram weight class by defeating Russia’s Bakhtiyar Akhmedov in the final on Thursday, August 21.
Taymazov went to the final in his previous two Olympic journeys. He took a silver medal in Sydney and eventually won a gold medal in Athens. Since then he won a gold medal in the 2006 World Championship and 2006 Asian Games.
In the final, Taymazov controlled the bout well. He used his experience to buffer Akhmedov’s attack and won the first period 3-0. The second period was a repeat of the first one, during which Akhmedov still could not find a chance to score and lost it 1-0.
Artur Taymazov advanced into the final after beating David Musulbes of Slovakia (1-0 and 1-0) in the semifinal.
In Men’s Freestyle Wrestling 74 kilogram final, Uzbekistan’s Soslan Tigiev competed with Buvaysa Saytiev of Russia and got silver medal of the Beijing Olympic Games on Wednesday, August 20.
“Tigiev will benefit from this fight and remember it for the rest of his life,” said Tigiev’s coach Alexander Mishurov.
Soslan Tigiev advanced into the final after beating Murad Gaidarov of Belarus 1-0 and 1-0 in the semifinal.
Anton Fokin of Uzbekistan won the bronze medal in the Parallel Bars with a score of 16.200 points at the Beijing Olympic Games on Tuesday, August 19.
by August 21st Uzbek athletes won 6 medals: 1-Gold, 2-silver and 3 bronzes.
