Muratbek Sultanbekovich Kipshakbaev ( Kazakh. Muratbek Sultanbekuly Қypshabaev ; September 11, 1979 , South Kazakhstan region ) is a Kazakhstan judoka of the featherweight category, he played for the national team of Kazakhstan throughout the 2000s. Member of the Athens Summer Olympics, champion of Asia, champion of the Central Asian Games in Dushanbe, winner of many tournaments of national and international importance.
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| Citizenship |  Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | September 11, 1979 (aged 39) | |||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | South Kazakhstan Region , USSR | |||||||||||||
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| Growth | 169 cm | |||||||||||||
| Weight category | lightweight (up to 66 kg) | |||||||||||||
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Biography
Muratbek Kipshakbaev was born on September 11, 1979 in the South Kazakhstan region of the Kazakh SSR . He first made his name in the 2000 season, taking fifth place in the international “A” tournament in Minsk. A year later, he performed at the World Cup in Budapest and at the Asian Championships in Ulaanbaatar, where he became the seventh.
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 2003, when he won the Kazakhstan championship in the featherweight category and, having ended up in the main team of the Kazakh national team, attended the Central Asian Games in Dushanbe , from where he brought the golden dignity award.
In 2004, Kipshakbaev won the home Asian championship in Alma-Ata, gaining the upper hand over all rivals in his weight division, including defeating the Mongolian Gantumuriyin Dashdava in the final [1] . Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the country's honor at the Athens Summer Olympics - in the first two fights he defeated Dominican Juan Carlos Jacinto and Serb Milos Miyalkovich , but at the quarter-finals with a vase-ari score he was defeated by the representative of Bulgaria Georgi Georgiev [2] . In the comforting meetings for the third place, he was not successful either, he lost the Georgian to David Margoshvili [3] .
After the Athens Olympics, Muratbek Kipshakbaev for some time remained in the main part of the judo team of Kazakhstan and continued to take part in major international tournaments. So, in 2005, he performed featherweight at the World Championships in Cairo, where, however, he could not become one of the winners, in the 1/8 finals he again lost to Georgian Margoshvili (at the same time he was defeated by the Dutchman in consolation fights for third place Dex Elmont ). The last time he fought in a tournament of any significance in the 2006 season, when he took part in the standings of the World Super Cup in Moscow, was defeated by Armen Armen Nazaryan and Russian Alim Gadanov in the early stages of the tournament bracket . Shortly after these competitions, he decided to end his career.
Notes
- ↑ Muratbek Kipshakbaev: I give victory to my father , Gazeta.kz (18 May 2004). Archived on November 29, 2014. Date of treatment November 20, 2014.
- ↑ Kuchkov, Delyan . Georgi Georgiev with a right medal in Judo from 24 g (Bulgarian) , Sega (August 16, 2004). Date of treatment November 20, 2014.
- ↑ Judo: Men's Half-Lightweight (66kg / 146 lbs) Repechage Round 2 . Athens 2004 . BBC Sport (August 15, 2004). Date of treatment January 31, 2013.
Links
- Muratbek Kipshakbaev - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Muratbek Kipshakbaev - profile on judoinside.com