Bekhan Tungaev [SEP] country of citizenship
Bekhan Tungaev
Bekhan Tungaev (Chechen: "Бекхан Тунгаев") is a Chechen wrestler who was born in Kazakhstan. He became famous in Chechnya after winning a European championship back in the 1970s. He started wrestling in 1967, when he went to section of wrestling trainer Degi Bagayev ("Дэги Багаев"), also in the same year he took part in his first championship - "championship of the republic among boys", where he got the first place. He was member of the Soviet Union team was from
three-time champion of the Caucasus.
At various tournaments he defeated many world, European and Olympic champions, such as: Gennadi Strakhov (USSR), David Peterson (USA), Davat Surena (Mongolia), József Csatári (Hungary), Sukhet Saraya (Iran), Ilya Mate (USSR), Paweł Kurchewski (Poland), Alyeksandr Prokopchuk (USSR).
References.
- Interview with Bekhan Tungaev