Buwaissar Khamidovich Saitijew

Buwaissar Saitijew (2009)

Buwaissar Chamidowitsch Saitijew ( Russian Бувайсар Хамидович Сайтиев ; born March 11, 1975 in Chassavyurt , Dagestan ) is a Russian wrestler of Chechen origin. He is Olympic champion in 1996, 2004 and 2008 and multiple world and European champion in free style in the world and middleweight division.

Career

Buwaissar Saitijew was born in Chassavyurt in Dagestan, but is Chechen. He started wrestling in his hometown in 1981. His first coach was Hamid Saitijew. In 1992 he moved to a wrestling center in Krasnoyarsk . There he owes great progress to coach Dmitri Mindiaschwili in particular . He is friends with the Chechen President and is committed to promoting Chechnya youth in the educational and sporting sectors. Buwaissar Saitijew is a qualified sports teacher, but has his economic base in the Russian army. Buwaissar Saitijew wrestles exclusively in free style. Adam Saitijew , the brother of Buwaissar Saitijew, is also a world class wrestler and like him is an Olympic and world champion .

He recorded his first sporting successes on the wrestling mat in 1993 when he became Junior European Champion in Götzis / Austria ahead of David Bichinashvili from Georgia . In 1994 Buwaissar Saitijew recorded one of his few defeats on the international wrestling mat. At the Junior World Championships of Espoirs in Kourtane / Finland he lost the final against Sevi Aldimow from Bulgaria and thus "only" came in 2nd place.

He then remained undefeated at ten international championships until the Olympic Games and took first place ten times.

In 1995 he became world welterweight champion for the first time in Atlanta with a final victory over Alexander Leipold from Germany . In 1996 he was first in Budapest , again with a final victory over Alexander Leipold, European welterweight champion and a little later he was first Olympic welterweight champion in Atlanta . He defeated u. a. in the semifinals ex-world champion Kenneth Monday from the United States and in the final fight Park Jang-soon from South Korea .

In 1997 and 1998 he was world and European champion respectively. In 1997 he defeated Alexander Leipold in the finals in Warsaw and Krasnoyarsk. At the European Championships in 1998, where he started in the middleweight division, he won the final against the Georgian David Bichinashvili, who has been playing for Germany for many years. In the final of the 1998 World Cup, he won in Tehran against Moon Eui-jae from South Korea.

In 1999 Buwaissar Saitijew started only at the military world championship in Zagreb and won the welterweight division there before Emzarios Bedinidis from Greece.

With another win at the 2000 European Championships in Budapest , where he won the final against Adem Bereket from Turkey , everything seemed to go according to plan as always. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Buwaissar Saitijew was surprisingly defeated by the physically immensely strong American Brandon Slay by just a few points (3: 4 technical points). Since this happened in the round of 16, he only came in 9th place in the final accounts. Brandon Slay then lost in the course of the further tournament in the final against Alexander Leipold, who thus became Olympic champion , on points. Alexander Leipold had to return this gold medal a little later because it was proven that he had taken illicit funds. That is why Brandon Slay is the 2000 Olympic welterweight champion.

In 2001 Buwaissar Saitijew was again world and European welterweight champion in Budapest and Sofia . He defeated at these championships, among others, Rewas Mindoraschwili from Georgia, Árpád Ritter from Hungary , Joe Williams from the United States and again Moon Eui-jae .

After that, he no longer started regularly at every World and European Championship. In 2002, for example, he was absent from both championships. In 2003 he was only at the World Championships in New York and won the welterweight division there. In the final battle he won it over Murad Hajdarau from Belarus on points. In 2004 he won the Olympic gold medal again with four wins in the welterweight division in Athens . With Emzarios Bedinidis , Murad Hajdarau, Krystian Brzozowski from Poland and Gennadi Lalijew from Kazakhstan, he defeated only absolute world class wrestlers. It is particularly noteworthy that he had to contest the final battle against Gennadi Lalijew with two broken fingers. At the same event, by the way, his brother Adam became Olympic middleweight champion.

In 2006 Buwaissar Saitijew was again European champion in Moscow . His final opponent was Ruslan Kokajew from Armenia , against whom he won safely on points. At the World Championships this year in Guangzhou / People's Republic of China he met the Bulgarian Michail Ganew in his third fight . Due to injury he was not in full possession of his powers and lost to Ganew on points.

In 2007 he was barely able to train due to a stubborn neck injury and he was unable to compete in the World and European Championships. In that year, for the first time in his ten-year career, he was faced with a strong competitor in Russia , Makhach Murtasalijew . Against this wrestler he lost on points at the "Ivan Jarigin" tournament in Krasnoyarsk in 2008 and therefore had to pause at the European Championships in Tampere . On June 3, 2008, at the Russian championship in Saint Petersburg in the final fight of the welterweight between Murtasalijew and Buwaissar Saitijew, the decision was made as to who could represent Russia at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . Buwaissar Saitijew played his whole routine and won this fight with 2-1 rounds. It will be the fourth time that he will take part in the Olympic Games in Beijing.

In Beijing Buwaissar Saitijew achieved wins over Cho Byung-Kwan, South Korea , Ahmet Guelhan, Turkey , Iván Fundora , Cuba , Kiril Tersiew , Bulgaria and Soslan Tigiyev , Uzbekistan , whom he won in the final with 2: 1 round wins and 4: 2 technical points defeated his third Olympic victory. In September 2010 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, up to 68 kg, 74/76 kg or 84/85 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	Weight class
1993	1.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Götzis / Austria	Light	before David Bichinashvili , Georgia , Fedoz Eni, Moldova and Norman Pickut, Germany
1994	3.	World Cup in Edmonton	Light	behind Chris Wilson , Canada and Matthew Demary, USA
1994	2.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Kourtane / Finland	Welter	behind Sevi Aldimow, Bulgaria a . before Andsor Tempotow, Ukraine and David Bichinashvili
1995	1.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Tehran	Welter	before Moon Eui-jae , South Korea , Abolfazli Zeinalnia, Iran u. Árpád Ritter , Hungary
1995	1.	World Cup in Atlanta	Welter	before Alexander Leipold , Germany, Alberto Rodríguez Hernández , Cuba , Christopher Freyer , Switzerland and David Schultz , USA
1996	1.	EM in Budapest	Welter	before Radion Kertanti, Slovakia , Valeri Verkušin, Macedonia , Viktor Peikov , Moldova and Alexander Leipold
1996	gold	OS in Atlanta	Welter	with victories over Issa Momeni , Iran, Alexander Leipold, Kenneth Monday , USA a. Park Jang-soon , South Korea
1997	1.	EM in Warsaw	Welter	with victories over Akbar Ismailow, Azerbaijan , Alan Msokow, Ukraine, Kuello Koiv, Estonia and Alexander Leipold
1997	1.	World Cup in Krasnoyarsk	Welter	with victories over Nicholas Ugoalah, Canada, Árpád Ritter , David Bichinashvili, Moon Eui-jae and Alexander Leipold
1998	1.	EM in Bratislava	medium	with victories over Sjarhej Borchanko, Belarus , Nikolos Begaschwili, Georgia, Jozef Lohyňa , Slovakia and David Bichinashvili
1998	1.	Goodwill games	Welter	before Stephan Marianetti, USA a. Massoud Jamshidi, Iran
1998	1.	World Cup in Tehran	Welter	with victories over Viktor Peikov, Alexander Kahaniaschwili, Georgia, Marcin Jurecki , Poland a . Moon Eui-jae
1999	1.	Military World Cup in Zagreb	Welter	before Emzarios Bedinidis and Elchad Alachwerdiew, Azerbaijan
2000	1.	EM in Budapest	Welter	with victories over Thomas Coppola, England , Habetnak Kurinjan, Armenia , Viktor Peikow, Andsor Tembotow, Ukraine a. Adem Bereket , Turkey
2000	9.	OS in Sydney	Welter	with a win over Plamen Paskalew , Bulgaria and a loss to Brandon Slay , USA
2001	1.	EM in Budapest	Welter	with victories over Eugen Preda, Romania, Christian Weiß, Germany, Rewas Mindoraschwili , Georgia, Árpád Ritter and Miroslaw Gotschew , Bulgaria
2001	1.	World Cup in Sofia	Welter	with victories over Ruslan Kinchagov , Uzbekistan , Kunihiko Obata, Japan , Rewas Mindoraschwili, Joe E. Williams , USA a. Moon Eui-jae
2003	1.	World Cup in New York	Welter	with victories over Jean Diatta, Senegal , Nikolai Paslar , Bulgaria, Talget Ikjasow, Australia , Hadji Habibi, Iran and Murad Hajdarau , Belarus
2004	gold	OS in Athens	Welter	with victories over Árpád Ritter, Emzarios Bedinidis, Murad Hajdarau, Krystian Brzozowski , Poland and Gennadi Lalijew , Kazakhstan
2005	1.	Intern. Tournament in Siedlce / Poland	Welter	before Belozerwkisk, Ukraine and Kunihiko Obata
2005	1.	World Cup in Budapest	Welter	with victories over Osman Malak Mohamed, England, Nikolai Paslar, Salvatore Rinella , Italy , Mehdi Majizadeh Juibari, Iran and Árpád Ritter
2006	1.	EM in Moscow	Welter	with victories over Goran Atanasow, Macedonia , Krystian Brzozowski, Emzarios Bedinidis, Mourad Gaidarow and Ruslan Kokajew , Armenia
2006	8th.	World Cup in Guangzhou / People's Republic of China	Welter	with victories over Maximo Blanco, Venezuela and Iván Fundora , Cuba and one defeat against Michail Ganew , Bulgaria
2008	2.	"Ivan Yarigin" tournament in Krasnoyarsk	Welter	behind Makhach Murtasalijew , Russia and in front of Denis Zargusch and Sergei Kirilow, both Russia
2008	gold	OS in Beijing	Welter	with victories over Cho Byung-kwan, Korea , Ahmet Gülhan, Turkey , Iván Fundora, Kiril Tersiew , Bulgaria a . Soslan Tigiyev , Uzbekistan

International battles

• 2008 in Vladikavkaz, Russia against Cuba (World Cup), F, We, points winner over Iván Fundora,
• 2008 in Vladikavkaz, Russia against Ukraine (World Cup), F, We, points winner over Gia Tschichladze

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer from 1993 to 2008,
• Website "www.iat-uni-leipzig.de",
• Website "sports123.com",
• Website "www.wrestrus.ru"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zuaro first official from the US to be inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 11, 2010  

Web links

• Profile of Buwaissar Saitijew at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Buwaissar Saitijew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )