Abdusalam Gadisov is a Russian professional freestyle wrestler. He is the champion and winner of many domestic and international tournaments. The Russian athlete has a gold medal from the 2014 World Cup (Tashkent) and a silver medal at the 2015 World Championships in Las Vegas. He also participated in tournaments such as the European Games and the Universiade, where he earned bronze and gold, respectively. The height of Abdusalam Gadisov is 180 centimeters, weight varies during the performances and training from 90 to 97 kg.
Biography
Abdusalam Gadisov was born on March 26, 1989 in Makhachkala (RSFSR). He grew up and was brought up in a family of Avars. From an early age he began to engage in sports, mainly martial arts - at the same time went to kickboxing and Wushu Sanda. He began to engage in freestyle wrestling at the age of eleven, his father took the boy to the section. According to an old habit, Gadisov came to training without shoes and in his old kimono, in which he went to Wushu. The head coach was surprised that the guy came to the training barefoot and ordered to wear anything, at least socks. As a result, the boy had to spend the whole training in his father's socks, which he was knee-deep.
He studied at the Makhachkala branch of Rostov University at the Faculty of Economics, where he received higher education. He is a pupil of the sports school Dynamo Makhachkala. His closest trainers are Imanmurza Aliyev and Gaidar Gaydarov. During the training, Abdusalam devoted a large amount of time to training in the gym. The athlete achieved significant results in strength training, but soon realized that the technical component in the ring was also very important.
At the youth competitions Gadis there were not enough stars from the sky. Of course, he was very worried, but the coaches of Imanmurz Aliyev and Gaidar Gaydarov reassured him and said that if he did not give up and continued to fight and give all the best, as before, the desired result would be achieved. Time passed, and as it turned out, the coaching staff was on the side of the truth.
Professional career
As mentioned earlier, at the children's championships Abdusalam Gadisov did not achieve grandiose results. However, with age, he began to confidently progress and show a stable result. In 2008, the athlete won the Russian championship, and the next year the youth world championship. In 2009, Abdusalam Gadisov participated in the freestyle wrestling world championship, where he managed to take seventh place.
Achievements
In subsequent years, the fighter steadily took his medals: 4 gold at the Russian Championship, won the World Cup, won the award of Ramzan Kadyrov and Ivan Yarygin, as well as many other trophies.
In 2012, Abdusalam Gadisov took 9th place at the Summer Olympics in London. In the second round of the Olympic championship, he lost to the reigning world champion Iranian Reza Yazdani.
Makhachkala wrestler has repeatedly been invited to the MMA professional league. Currently, Gadisov refuses to fight in fights without rules, but does not exclude the possibility of agreeing to MMA in the coming years.
Retirement?
In the summer of 2016, Gadisov tried to qualify for the Summer Olympic Games. To do this, it was necessary to qualify for the Russian Championship - 2016, however, due to the conflict between V. Lebedev and I. Musukaev, he was forced to refuse to participate in the championship. Having won the Grand Prix in Baku in November, Abdusalam announced his retirement.
A year later, on November 3, 2017, the wrestler returned to the sport and performed at an international tournament in honor of the memory of D. Schultz. In the second round, the Russian athlete lost to the seventeen-year-old athlete from the USA, surprising the entire wrestling community with such a fiasco.
