Dauren Kurugliev - European champion in freestyle wrestling

Member team of Russia in freestyle wrestling Dauren Kurugliev few years has been on supporting roles in a weight division up to 86 kg, but in 2016 he made a sharp qualitative leap in its development and has won several prestigious tournaments in a row, the last of which was the European Championship in 2017. Lezghian athlete just entered the time of his sporting prime, and he is expected to dominate in his weight class in the coming years.

Start

Dauren Kurugliev born in Derbent in Dagestan, in 1992. As a child, the boy was someone to be in its own genus: Dauren uncle was Magomed Kurugliev wins bronze at World Championship 2005 year. Even the name of the boy was given in honor of Atamkulova Dauren - a coach who has made Magomed medalist of world championships.

With such relatives, and even in Dagestan, it was impossible to engage in any other sport besides wrestling. Dauren Kurugliev, whose biography was predetermined, started in the section on the fight along with his brother Arsen at the age of 8 years.

In childhood and adolescence world medalist nephew does not stand out among their peers, so the search for a new push for progress fifteen a teenager he moved to Stavropol, where he was engaged in a local school of Olympic reserve.

Junior period and homecoming

Dauren Kurugliev faithfully represented his native RBM in various youth tournaments, taking out prizes and awards. However, he was not one of the best fighters of the country in his age, staying in the shadows of the more fortunate peers. Only in 2011 in the youth championship Russian Dauren Kurugliev was able to win the gold, but he did not get the national team, as these competitions were trailing in his youth career. In 2012, Lezghian fighter achieved initial breakthrough at senior level. Dauren Kurugliev all of a sudden took a bronze medal at the Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin, held in Krasnoyarsk.

Shortly after the success of the tournament in the Siberian Dagestan she decided to return to his homeland and moved to Makhachkala, where he began to train at the sports school "Dynamo".

Here it things went smoothly, and year after year he started picking up a leading group of fighters of the country. Not the least role in this played a reputable mentor Mairbek Yusupov, who took underrated wrestler under his wing.

A step forward, two steps back

A few years Dauren Kurugliev was on the second and third roles in his weight range, regularly stopping in the early stages of major competitions. He was the fifth, made worse at the Russian Championships in 2014 in a year, retiring from the tournament at the stage of 1/8 finals. Individual, local successes have occurred in the North Caucasus native land where Dauren Kurugliev felt more confident.

In particular, he won a silver medal at the Cup of Ramzan Kadyrov in 2013, was the bronze winner of the Intercontinental Cup, which was held in Khasavyurt in 2014.

A certain change occurred in 2015, when Lezghian champion for the second time in his life became one of the winners of a representative of the Memorial tournament Ivan Yarygin.

unbeaten

By 2016 Dauren Kurugliev gained confidence in their abilities and all of a sudden stopped noticing opponents on the wrestling mat. His fantastic winning streak started March 12, 2016 to participate in a small tournament, which took place in Buryatia, and lasted more than a year past forty fights. By 2017, the Dagestani won at the Memorial, Ali Aliyev, won yaryginskogo tournament and won the right to speak at the European Championship 2017. However, before the continental championship ahead for representative events in Turkey, which was considered the main favorite of the silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Rio Selim Yasar.

Shortly before that Dauren there is another guardian who has suddenly become his former competitor on the carpet Abdularashid Sadullayev, opened a school named after him and struggle Kuruglievu offered to represent his club.

So, to Turkey for the last tournament before the European Championship Dauren went exclusively with gold, and did not lose the spirit of the crowd under severe pressure, which vehemently supported their children. On the way to the final, he removed three Turkish sportsmen and looked very confident before a major battle. His opponent was the public's favorite Selim Yasar, however Dauren Kurugliev caught courage, and eminent Turks could not do anything with it.

EM

European Championship Lezghian wrestler went on full alert. In the early stages of the tournament, he overwhelmingly beat their rivals, leaving no chance to Boris Slovaks and Hungarians Istvan Makoevu Verebu. However, in the semi-final he waited for a serious test.

The representative of Georgia Dato Marsagashvili course of the match took the initiative and moved during the fight under control. Only three seconds before the end of the battle Dauren Kurugliev managed to dodge and have a decisive trick that secured him the victory with the score 4: 2. At the end of Dagestani went to Alexander Gostieva, Ossetian fighter who became an advocate for Azerbaijan because of the incredible competition in the Russian national team. Dauren in this unique North Caucasus derby possessed an advantage, but in one of the moments of the fight hit the nose of the enemy's head. Because of excessive bleeding stopped the fight, and Dauren was on the verge of defeat, as the new rules while helping wrestler was limited to three minutes, otherwise with continued bleeding that was removed from combat.

However, coach Dzambolat Tedeyev firmly plugged with cotton wool nose his charge, and he was back on the carpet, surely bringing the meeting to win with a score of 6: 0.

Today, Dauren just 25 years old, and he is full of desire, effort to reign in his weight division than one year.