Beslan Savarbekowitsch Chagiyev

Beslan Savarbekowitsch Tschagijew (born July 24, 1968 in Kazakhstan , USSR , † May 15, 2009 in Grozny , Russia ) was a wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union , Russia and the Republic of Moldova . He became European welterweight champion in Greco-Roman style in 1993 .

Career

Beslan Chagiyev began wrestling as a teenager and in 1985 came from Ordzhonikidzeskaya in Ingushetia to Krasnoyarsk , where one of the training centers of the Soviet Wrestling Association was located. He later studied at the Krasnoyarsk Sports University, where he graduated as a sports teacher in 1993. He was a sturdy, stocky type who always started at welterweight at a height of 1.74 meters, the weight class that in his day reached up to 74 kg body weight. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style.

He appeared on the international wrestling mat for the first time in 1988. That year he was in Walbrzych (Poland) Junior European Champion in the age group "Espoirs", which at that time went up to the age of 20. Junior World Championships were not held in this age group at that time, but there was a World Cup tournament in Athens in July 1988, which Beslan Chagiyev also won.

In 1990 he finished 3rd in the Soviet Union welterweight championship. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became Russian champion in 1992. For the Olympic Games this year, however, it was not he but the more experienced Mnazakan Iskandarjan , who also became Olympic champion , who was nominated. In the spring of 1993 Beslan Chagiyev proved himself at two important international tournaments in Paris and Koblenz . In Paris he took 3rd place, in Koblenz he won. In both tournaments he wrestled u. a. also against the German master Erik Hahn . In Paris he lost, in Koblenz he won against this. In May 1993 he was then used at the European Championships in Istanbul . There he defeated Vladimir Kopytow , Belarus , Petre Carare , Romania, Michael Lyyski, Finland, Stojan Dobrew, Bulgaria and Asad Rusalijew from Azerbaijan and became European champion. It can no longer be determined whether he was also at the start of the 1993 World Championships, which took place in Stockholm , but with little success, as even the journal Der Ringer only mentions the ten best-placed wrestlers in each weight class. In the welterweight division, there is no Russian wrestler among the top ten.

Beslan Chagiyev, who had also received the title "Master of Sports" in Russia, did not compete in any other international championships in 1994. He changed at the beginning of 1995 the association and started now for the wrestling club "Olimp" Chișinău (Chisinau) and the Moldovan Wrestling Association. At the 1995 World Cup in Prague and the 1996 European Championships in Budapest , he was then at the start for the Republic of Moldova . At both championships he lost his first fight, in Prague against Yvon Riemer from France and in Budapest against Erik Hahn. He was therefore only 31st in Prague and 15th in Budapest. After that he did not contest any more international championships.

Beslan Chagiyev worked as a coach in Turkey after his active career, but returned to the Caucasus. On May 15, 2009, he blew himself up in Grozny as a suicide bomber near the Chechen Ministry of International Affairs (MIA). The reasons for his suicide are unclear.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1988	1.	Intern. Junior tournament (Espoirs) in Pernik near Sofia	Welter	before Alexander Jovanovic, Yugoslavia and Christian Mrjana, Romania
1988	1.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Walbrzych (Poland)	Welter	before Tuomo Karila , Finland and Richard Matejska, CSSR
1988	1.	Junior World Cup (Espoirs) in Athens	Welter	before Mohyeldi Abdel Hareth, Egypt, Juan Sanchez Ribiaux, Cuba and Daniel Henderson, USA
1993	3.	Paris Grand Prix	Welter	behind Erik Hahn, Germany and Vlado Lisjak, Yugoslavia
1993	1.	German Grand Prix in Koblenz	Welter	in front of Wladimir Kopytow, Belarus, Erik Hahn and Jaroslaw Siuj, Poland
1993	1.	EM in Istanbul	Welter	after victories over Vladimir Kopytow, Petre Carare, Romania, Michael Lyyski, Finland, Stojan Dobrew, Bulgaria and Asad Rusalijew, Azerbaijan
1995	1.	15. Hapoel Games in Tel Aviv	Welter	before Erik Hahn, Boris Winakorow, Israel and Sami Deda, Albania
1995	31.	World Cup in Prague	Welter	after a loss to Yvon Riemer, France
1996	15th	EM in Budapest	Welter	after a loss to Erik Hahn

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• Welter weight, back then up to 74 kg body weight

literature

Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Beslan Sawarbekowitsch Tschagijew at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Article on the 2009 Grozny suicide bomber