Rustem Abdullaevich Kazakov

Rustem Kazakov medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	1972 Munich	Bantam
World Championship
gold	1969 Mar del Plata	Bantam
bronze	1970 Edmonton	Bantam
gold	1971 Sofia	Bantam
silver	1973 Tehran	Bantam

Rustem Abdullajewitsch Kasakow (also Rustam Kasakow ; Russian Рустем or Рустам Абдуллаевич Казаков, Uzbek Rustam Qozoqov ; born January 2, 1947 in Tashkent ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He became Olympic champion in Munich in 1972 .

Career

Rustem Kazakov, a Crimean Tatar, started wrestling as a teenager. He developed into an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman style and was delegated to the Tashkent Army Sports Club as a member of the army . In 1967 he took 2nd place in the big international "Ivan Podubbny" tournament in Moscow in bantamweight and was then sent to the European Championships in Bucharest . There he delivered four good fights, but was defeated by the experienced Romanian Ion Baciu and came in 7th place, which is not entirely satisfactory for a Soviet wrestler. For this reason, it was not used until the 1969 World Cup in Mar del Plata ( Argentina ). At this world championship, a tough three-way battle for victory between Kazakov, David Hazewinkel from the USA and Ion Baciu developed in bantamweight , whom Kazakow won and returned to the Soviet Union as world champion .

At the 1970 World Cup in Edmonton , Kazakov failed to defend his title. Although he remained undefeated with four wins and two undecided fights, he had to be satisfied with the bronze medal because of the worse points ratio than Ion Baciu and János Varga from Hungary .

In 1971 Rustem Kazakow was the winner of the Völkerspartakiade of the USSR, which is extremely important in the Soviet Union, ahead of Anatoli Ostschepkow and Yuri Sokolow . At the world championship of the same year in Sofia he then won his second world title. Although he lost to János Varga, he was able to defeat his feared opponent Ion Baciu for the first time.

Kazakov celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . In a very difficult tournament in which no wrestler remained without defeat, he succeeded in winning the Olympic gold before the German champion Hans-Jürgen Veil . Before that, he had lost to Christo Traikow from Bulgaria , who was eliminated before the final.

At the 1973 World Cup in Tehran , Kasakow started at an international championship for the last time and found his master in a new man, Józef Lipień from Poland , who defeated him on points. But he became vice world champion.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1965	1.	"Dan-Kolew" -Memorialess Chaskovo	Bantam	before Rabaitsch, Bulgaria a. Yaroslav, Czechoslovakia
1967	2.	"Ivan Podubbny" tournament in Moscow	Bantam	behind Andre Kimstach, USSR and in front of Franz Tempes , Federal Republic of Germany, Armais Sajadow and Sergei Rybalko , both USSR
1967	7th	EM in Bucharest	Bantam	with victories over Grzyb, Poland and Christo Traikow , Bulgaria, a draw against János Varga , Hungary and a defeat against Ion Baciu , Romania
1969	1.	World Cup in Mar del Plata ( Argentina )	Bantam	with victories over Mehdi Ahangaran, Iran, An Chun-Young, Korea, David Hazewinkel , USA and a draw against Ion Baciu
1970	3.	World Cup in Edmonton	Bantam	with wins over Öivind Solksjaer, Norway, Jörn Krogsgaard, Denmark, Mehdi Ahangaran and Risto Björlin , Finland and a draw against Ion Baciu and János Varga
1971	1.	World Cup in Sofia	Bantam	with victories over Eduardo Maggiolo, Argentina, Jan Nečkar, Czechoslovakia, Ferooz Arlouzadeh, Iran, Christo Traikow and despite a defeat against János Varga
1972	1.	"Ivan Podubbny" tournament in Moscow	Bantam	before Andre Kimstach and Anatoli Ostschepkow, bde. USSR
1972	gold	OS in Munich	Bantam	with victories over Alam Mir, Afghanistan, Józef Lipień , Poland, Ikuzi Yamamoto, Japan, Othon Moschidis , Greece, János Varga and Hans-Jürgen Veil , Federal Republic of Germany and despite a defeat against Christo Traikow
1973	1.	Intern. Tournament in Klippan	feather	before Ion Paun, Romania and Jozef Lipien, Poland
1973	2.	World Cup in Tehran	Bantam	with victories over K. Mustafa, Algeria, Anton Hack, Austria, Risto Björlin, Mehmet Uysal, Turkey, Ivan Frgić , Yugoslavia and János Varga, a draw against Christo Trajkow and a defeat against Józef Lipień

Soviet championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
1967	2.	Bantam	behind Amari Egadse , in front of Axander Kimstach
1971	1.	Bantam	before Nikolai Ovtschenkow and Juri Sokolow (wrestler)

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Bantam weight, back then up to 57 kg, feather weight up to 62 kg body weight

literature

• various issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from 1967 to 1973,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

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