Khetag Gazyumov

Khetag Gazyumov

Gazyumov at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born	24 April 1983 (1983-04-24) (age 41) Suadag, North Ossetia, Russia
Education	Gorsky State Agrarian University
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Event	Freestyle
Club	Atasport
Coached by	Firdovsi Umudov Marik Tedeyev Magomed Aliomarov
Medal record Representing Azerbaijan Summer Olympics 2008 Beijing 96 kg 2012 London 96 kg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 97 kg World Championships Herning 2009 96 kg Moscow 2010 96 kg Budapest 2013 96 kg Tashkent 2014 97 kg Las Vegas 2015 97 kg European Championship Vilnius 2009 96 kg Baku 2010 96 kg Dortmund 2011 96 kg Vantaa 2014 97 kg European Games Baku 2015 97 kg

Khetag Gazyumov (also Gozyumov, Ossetian: Гозымты Русланы фырт Хетæг, Gozymty Ruslany fyrt Xetæg; Russian: Хетаг Русланович Гозюмов, Hetag Ruslanovič Gozümov; Azerbaijani: Xetaq Qazümov; born 24 April 1983) is retired Russian and Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler of Ossetian origin. Competing in the 96 kg weight category he won bronze medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 2016 Rio Games. He also won four gold and four silver medal at the European and world championships in 2009–2014 and a gold medal at the 2015 European Games.

Gazyumov took up wrestling in 1990 and started competing in 1994. He eventually developed a cardiac arrhythmia, which led to his collapse after the quarterfinal match at the 2012 Olympics.

Career

Fighting at the Summer Olympics 2008, 2012

At the ceremony of awarding the 2012 Olympics (far right)

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on his way to his bronze medal, Khetag won strong wrestlers M.Gusman (POL), Vincent Aces (FRA), Kurban Kurbanov (UZB), Georgy Tibilov (UKR). And only an annoying loss with a minimum score in the semi-final Shirvani Muradova (Russia), who became the winner of the tournament, did not give Khetagh to become an Olympic champion.

The Olympic carpet of London can not be called successful for Khetag. Having started the tournament well, he then lost to Ukrainian Valeri Andrejtsev, in view of the sharply deteriorating state of health. He was already taken to the hospital when he found out that he had the opportunity to qualify for a bronze medal. Khetag urged the doctors to turn around and take him back. He was given a dropper, and in this condition he went out to fight with a representative of Tajikistan. Won and won his second bronze medal, truly equivalent to gold.