Taimuras Tigiev
| Taimuras Tigijew medal table |
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| bronze | 2006 Doha | 96 kg freestyle |
Taimuras Wasnojewitsch Tigijew ( Russian Таймураз Вазноевич Тигиев ; born January 15, 1982 in Ordzhonikidze ) is a Kazakh freestyle wrestler of Ossetian origin, who starts in the class up to 96 kg (heavyweight) for Kazakhstan . His younger brother Soslan Tigiyev starts as a freestyle wrestler for Uzbekistan .
Tigiyev first appeared in 2001 when he was second at the World Cup in Baltimore after losing to the Iranian Alireza Heidari in the final . In the same year he was third in the Junior World Championship in Tashkent . At the World Wrestling Championships 2003 in New York he came in 14th, at the Asian Games in 2006 in Doha , he won the bronze medal.
doping
At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he came to the 2nd place on the podium after the final defeat against the Russian Shirvani Muradov . In extensive follow-up tests in 2016, his doping sample was retested using improved methods and a positive result was found. He was then disqualified by the IOC, and his silver medal stripped .
Web links
- Taimuras Tigijew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Profile of Taimuras Tigijew at the Institute for Applied Training Science
Individual evidence
- ^ IOC sanctions nine athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , October 26, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Tigiev, Taimuras |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tigijew, Taimuras Wasnojewitsch; Тигиев, Таймураз Вазноевич |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kazakh freestyle wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ordzhonikidze , North Ossetian ASSR , Russian SFSR , USSR |