Olympic champion David Musulbes

David Musulbes is a famous Georgian freestyle wrestler. He has the title of Honored Master of Sports. Acted in international tournaments for the national teams of Russia and Slovakia. Olympic champion.

Biography of the athlete

David Musulbes was born in 1972 in Ordzhonikidze, in the capital of North Ossetia. I 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.

To his victories prepared mentors Saveliy Byazrov, two-time world champion, and Kazbek Dedegkaev, master of sports of the USSR.

First successes

David Musulbes won the first serious victory already in 1993 when he turned 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 Sabeyev, the second place was occupied by the Azerbaijani Davud Magomedov.

In 1995, David Musulbes wins gold at the European Championship in the French town of Besancon. In the decisive match he defeats the Slovak of Milan Mazac. At the same time, the athlete moves to a more "heavy" category - up to 120 kilograms. In the same season he wins the World Cup, and in a couple of years he gets the title of Honored Master of Sports. His achievements were appreciated.

All the chances to go to the Olympic Games David Musulbes, whose biography was forever associated with sports, had back in 1996, when the competition was held in Atlanta. However, at the last moment he was overboard the national team.

Olympics in Sydney

By 2004, Musulbes wins another bronze at the World Cup, becoming a two-time European champion. At the Olympics in the Australian Sydney comes to 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 semi-final, he is confronted by the Iranian fighter Jadidi. The fight passes with the advantage of Musulbes, but it is possible to win only on points, but dry, 3: 0.

In a parallel battle, Uzbek Arthur Taymazov receives an estimate of "carcass" for taking against Cuban Rodriguez.

The fate of the gold medal is decided by the Russian and Uzbek. At the same time, David Musulbes, whose nationality is Georgian, never spoke for Georgia, giving preference to the Russian team. The result of the bout is 5: 2 in favor of David. The hero of our article becomes an Olympic champion. This gold medal was the last for the Russian team at that Olympiad and 32 in the team event.

Preparation for the next Olympics

A serious contender for victory in his weight category Musulbes was on the eve of the next Olympiad, which was held in Athens in 2004. He won two world championships in a row, but did not get into the national team. Not on a sporting principle, but because of some intrigues that prevailed at that time in the team.

Recognition he received not only in Russia, but also abroad. For example, in Bulgaria he was given the symbolic title of the best freestyle sportsman. In 2003, David Musulbes could not draw a third victory at the world championships. The freestyle wrestling lost considerably in the spectacle at the tournament that took place in New York. Musulbes, as well as another eminent fighter - also a Russian Buvaysar Saytiev refused to issue a US visa. All this had a negative effect on his condition, he even thought about completing his professional career. Even became at one time a senior coach of the Russian national team, having worked on this post for three years.

Return to the carpet

In 2008, David Musulbes, whose photo repeatedly decorated the first pages of sports publications, decides to return to the big sport. He becomes a member of the Slovak national team in freestyle wrestling, and as part of this team goes to the Olympics in Beijing.

It's amazing that the training of Musulbes resumed only six months before the start of the Olympic Games. At the European championship in the Finnish Tampere, the first after a long break, he reaches only to the final, in which he loses. However, after the end of the competition it turns out that his opponent in the final match was a positive dope test. He is deprived of awards, the champion is Musulbes.

Olympics in Beijing

In August 2008, he came to the Olympics in Beijing at the age of 36 years. His path begins with the 1/8 finals, where he is confronted by the Nigerian Wilson Sievari. Musulbes wins with a clear advantage 9: 0.

In the quarterfinals he gets into the opponents of the more experienced Hungarian Otto Aubel, bronze medalist of the World and European Championships. The newly-made Slovak wrestler wins with a more modest score - 4: 1.

In the semifinal match falls on his eternal rival - Uzbek Arthur Taymazov. Musulbes strongly resists, but does not earn a single point, while his opponent receives two points.

The last opportunity to win an Olympic medal is the battle for third place. Musulbes meets with Cuban Disney Rodriguez, who conceded Russian citizen Bakhtiyar Akhmedov the day before.

Musulbs won a confident victory 8: 2. And brings in a coin box of the Slovak national team a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling. By the way, in the final in the weight category up to 120 kilograms Taimazov won, he was stronger than Ahmadov - 4: 0.

At present, David Musulbes returned to Russia from Slovakia. Works in the capital, in the management of the Moscow Sports Committee, under the leadership of Alexei Vorobyov. In the zone of his responsibility, the secondary specialized school of the Olympic reserve No. 1.