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Full name | Roman Alimzhanovich Tsarev | |||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Kyrgyzstani | |||||||||||||||||
Born | 16 July 1991 33) Taraz, Kazakh SSR, USSR [1] | (age|||||||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 67–72 kg (148–159 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Country | Kyrgyzstan | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling Belt wrestling | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Raatbek Sanatbaev's wrestling club Berkut [2] | |||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Farchad Ushurov, [3] Shuhrat Ushurov [3] | |||||||||||||||||
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Roman Alimzhanovich Tsarev (born 16 July 1991) is a Kyrgyzstani Greco-Roman and Belt wrestler of Russian heritage. 2016 Belt Wrestling World Championships silver medalist. [4] He competed at the 2011 Asian Wrestling Championships and 2018 Asian Wrestling Championships.
He was born in Taraz, USSR. [1] As a child, he moved with his twin-brother Ruslan to Kyrgyzstan and started Greco-Roman and belt wrestling at the age of 13 in Bishkek. [3]
He was placed at the 2007 Aleksandr Karelin Greco-Roman tournament in Barnaul, Russia. [5] In 2013, he was second at the Kyrgyzstan national championships at 66 kg. [6] In 2016, he competed in the belt wrestling 75kg event at the Asian Championships and won the bronze medal. At the 2016 World Belt Wrestling Championships he earned the silver medal. [7] [4] In 2017, he was runner-up at the Kyrgyzstan Greco-Roman national championships at 71 kilos. [2] In 2020, he won the Kyrgyzstan Greco-Roman national championships. [8]
Roman has a twin-brother Ruslan, who competes in Greco-Roman wrestling. [1]
Kyrgyzstan competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's third appearance at the Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
Kyrgyzstan competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
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