Toğrul Əsgərov

Əsgərov as silver medalist at the award ceremony in Rio de Janeiro 2016

Toğrul Şəhriyar oğlu Əsgərov (also Toghrul Asgarov ; born September 17, 1992 in Gəncə ) is an Azerbaijani wrestler . He was runner- up in free style bantamweight world champion in 2010 and featherweight Olympic champion in 2012 .

Career

Toğrul Əsgərov started wrestling as a teenager in 2002. He focuses on free style and belongs to the Nefchi Baku sports club . His trainer there is Elchin Zainalow. He is a student and at the age of 18 is still at the beginning of his career, in which he was extremely successful, especially in the junior area. At a height of 1.71 meters he started in the bantam weight, the weight class up to 55 kg body weight, but due to his size should soon grow into the featherweight.

In 2008, 2009 and 2010 Toğrul Əsgərov was European champion in free style in the individual age groups of the juniors in the weight classes up to 46 kg, 54 kg and 55 kg (bantam weight). In 2010 he was also junior runner- up in bantamweight world champion in Budapest , losing just 1: 2 rounds with 6: 6 technical points in the final against Vladimer Chintschegashvili from Georgia , whom he had defeated at the 2010 European Junior Championships .

His first start in an international championship was at the 2010 World Cup in Moscow . He fought his way there in bantamweight with victories over Henry Moki N'Dive Molua, Cameroon , Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar , Mongolia , Ryswan Hajjyjeu , Belarus and Yasuhiro Inaba , Japan up to the final, in which he lost to Viktor Lebedew from Russia . As an 18-year-old and vice world champion, he once again explicitly demonstrated his extraordinary talent.

At the European Championships 2011 in Dortmund Toğrul Əsgərov wrestled in featherweight and had to pay a hard time there again. He lost his first fight there against the experienced Ukrainian Vasyl Fedoryschyn . Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and only came in 14th place.

In July 2011 he was in Bucharest Junior World Featherweight Champion and in March 2012 in Belgrade European Senior Champion, where he defeated Anatoli Guidea from Bulgaria in the final . The highlight of his career so far was the 2012 Olympic Games in London , where the 20-year-old won over Tim Schleicher , Germany , Kenichi Yumoto , Japan , Coleman Lewis Scott , United States and the four-time world champion and bronze medalist from the 2008 Olympic Games Bessik Kuduchow from Russia became Olympic champion .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won silver in the lightweight.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
2008	1.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Daugavpils / Latvia	up to 46 kg body weight	before Zurabi Iakobischwili, Georgia a . Ozbechan Güclü, Turkey
2009	1.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Zrenjanin / Serbia	up to 54 kg body weight	in front of Chabib Batirow, Russia , Mate Krasznai, Hungary a . Maxim Perpeliță, Moldova
2010	1.	Junior European Championship in Samokow / Bulgaria	Bantam	before Wladimer Chintschegaschwili , Georgia, Krum Tschuchurow, Bulgaria a. Rustam Ampar, Russia
2010	2.	Junior World Championships in Budapest	Bantam	with victories over Ibrahim Farag Abdelhakim, Egypt , Jacob Hergenhein, Canada , Kyohei Yago, Japan a . Nodirjon Safarow, Uzbekistan u. a defeat against Vladimer Khinchegashvili
2010	2.	World Cup in Moscow	Bantam	with victories over Henry Moki N'Dive Molua, Cameroon , Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar , Mongolia , Ryswan Hadschyjeu , Belarus a . Yasuhiro Inaba , Japan et al. a loss to Viktor Lebedev , Russia
2010	1.	Henry Deglane Memorial in Nice	feather	before Aboubakow Aschabou, Morocco , Adama Diatta, France a . Junior Castillo, Spain
2011	14th	EM in Dortmund	feather	after losing to Vasyl Fedoryschyn , Ukraine
2011	1.	Junior World Cup in Plauen	feather	before Behnam Ehsanpoor, Iran and Zurar Iakobaschwili, Georgia
2011	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	feather	behind Selimchan Husseinow and Agahüseyin Mustafejew, both Azerbaijan
2011	1.	Junior World Championships in Bucharest	feather	after victories over Volodja Franguljan, Armenia , Maruf Nurillajew, Uzbekistan , Murschid Mutalimow, Russia, Ömer Uzan, Turkey and Logan Stieber, USA
2011	3.	Moscow Lights	feather	behind Rasul Murtasalijew and Opan Sat , both Russia
2012	1.	EM in Belgrade	feather	before Anatoli Guidea , Bulgaria , Malchaz Zarkua , Georgia and Rasul Murtasalijew
2012	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia	feather	before Anatoli Guidea, Selahattin Kilicsallay, Turkey and Wassyl Fedoryschyn
2012	gold	OS in London	feather	after victories over Tim Schleicher , Germany , Kenichi Yumoto , Japan, Coleman Lewis Scott , USA and Bessik Kuduchow , Russia
2016	silver	OS in Rio de Janeiro	Light

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships
• Bantamweight is weight class up to 55 kg, feather weight up to 60 kg, lightweight up to 66 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig (now Foeldeak Wrestling Database)

Web link

Profile of Toğrul Əsg Profilrov at the Institute for Applied Training Science