Dagestani athletes win 3 medals of Russian combat sambo championships

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Makhachkala, February 23, 2015. Dagestani athletes won two silver and one bronze medals at the national championships in combat sambo held on February 18-19 in Krasnoyarsk, one of the winners’ coach of Hadjimurad Bulatov told RIA Dagestan.

The tournament was held at the local Ivan Yarygin Sports Palace to bring together more than 200 participants including numerous world and European champions from many Russian regions. The athletes contested medals and tickets to international competitions in nine weights (52, 57, 62, 68, 74, 82, 90, 100, and +100 kg).

"On the first day of the contest, my trainee Sultan Aliyev won silver - in the 90 kg weight, he lost the most titled participant – 4 times world champion Vyacheslav Vasilevsky in the final," Bulatov commented.

The second day of the tournament brought Dagestan two medals in the 68 kg weight. World champions Magomedrassul Hasbulaev and Ruslan Gassankhanov finally places second and third respectively.

The championships were also qualifiers for the European championships scheduled to run in May in Croatia, and the November world championships in Morocco.

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