"They will defend the honor of the country in Tokyo": successful participant of the licensed World Cup Rustam Assakalov
We continue the project "They will defend the honor of the country in Tokyo". Today we will tell you about the activities of the representative of the national team in Greco-Roman wrestling, two-time World Cup medalist Rustam Assakalov.
Assakalov Rustam Shatbaevich was born on July 13, 1984 in the Krasnodar Territory (Russian Federation). Since 2012, the representative of the National team of Uzbekistan. His first major competition as a member of the national team of Uzbekistan was the 2013 Asian Championship, where Assakalov managed to win the title of champion of the continent. Coaches-Vladimir Kholodaev, Kamil Fatkullin, Ravshan Ruzikulov.
In 2014, Assakalov was awarded silver in the continental championship, and at the Asian Games in Incheon he won the title of champion.
He won a gold medal at the 2015 Asian Championships, and a silver medal at the World Championships. Thanks to the result at the World Cup, he was awarded the license of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. At this Olympiad, he entered the top eight.
At the 2017 Asian Championship in New Delhi, the wrestler became the bronze medalist. 2018 was one of the most successful years for Assakalov. That year, he won gold in the continental championship, and silver at the Asian Games in Indonesia.
And 2019 began with the Asian Championship. The competition was held in the city of Cian, where Assakalov added another bronze medal to his piggy bank.
In the same year, the World Championship was held in the city of Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan). The 35-year-old wrestler, who competed in the weight category -87 kg, defeated two-time world champion Metehen Bashar( Turkey), Alexander Komarov (Russia) at the expense of "touch". In the semifinals, he fought with Viktor Lorints (Hungary). The fight ended with a score of 1: 1, but the last point was counted to Lorinets and our wrestler had to go to the carpet for the bronze medal. The main thing is that Assakalov reached the semifinals. As a result, having won bronze, he was awarded a license for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
