Name Abdullo Tangriev Role Olympic athlete | Height 1.80 m Weight 100 kg | |
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Olympic medals Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Heavyweight (+100 kg) People also search for Oscar Brayson, Teddy Riner, Satoshi Ishii | ||
JUDO 2002 Asian Championships: Abdullo Tangriev (UZB) - Vyatcheslav Berduta (KAZ)
Abdullo Tangriev (born 28 March 1981) is an Uzbek judoka. He won a silver medal in the +100 kg category of the 2008 Olympic Games.
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- JUDO 2002 Asian Championships Abdullo Tangriev UZB Vyatcheslav Berduta KAZ
- Early life
- Career
- References
Early life
Abdullo Tangriev was born in 28 March 1981, in Surxondaryo Region. He was engaged with judo from the age 10. From 1995 he started training in Chirchiq Olympics school. He was able to show his talent from early ages, and in the age of 19 he was called to the Uzbekistan National Olympics team, and attended in 2000 Summer Olympics
Career
After the Olympics games, he won the Uzbekistan championship from judo, in 2001. In 2003 for the first time in his career he became the champion of Asia, in super weight category which was held in Jeju Province. In coming for years(2005, 2007, 2008, 2011) he also became the champion of Asia in judo.
In the same year of 2003 Abdullo Tangriev won the third place in 23rd Judo World Championship which took place in Osaka. In the year's of 2005(Rio de Janeiro) and 2009(Rotterdam) he twice was honored as the bronze medal owner in Judo World Championship.
In 2008 Summer Olympics Abdullo Tangriev was able to reach the final stage of tournament in category of 100kg's, where he lost the fight, and got the second place.
In 2012 Summer Olympics Abdullo Tangriev was disqualified from professional sport, due to cannabis being detected in his drug test.