 Usserbayev (top) at the 2016 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 December 1988 (age 35) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 74 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSKA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Sergey Beloglazov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Galymzhan Usserbayev (born 19 December 1988) is a freestyle wrestler from Kazakhstan.
He competed at 74 kg freestyle at the 2014 World Wrestling Championships where he won his first match, but lost his second. [1]
He won a bronze medal at the 2015 Military World Games. [2]
He won the 74 kg freestyle competition at the 2016 Asian Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament to earn a berth at the 2016 Olympics. [1] At the Olympics he lost a bronze medal match to Soner Demirtaş. [3]
In 2021, he won the gold medal in the 79 kg event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2021 held in Rome, Italy. [4]
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