Saigid Murtazaliev Biography

The Honored Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling was awarded the Order of the "Person of Honor" G. His parents from the Tsumadinsky district of Dagestan. The family had five brothers and one sister. The childhood of the eminent athlete passed in the village of Kuznetsovsk, Tarumovsky district and in Kizlyar, where he first began to fight the coach Magomed Omarovich Abdalov, who taught him the basics of struggle, laying the basis for the further development of the fighter, and this is not easy.

As Said recalled, his older brother brought him into the hall of struggle. On the recommendation of the coach and older brothers in the year, Sagid moved to Makhachkala and began to study with the coach of Imamurza Aliyev. One winter, the coach visited Murtazaliev in the hostel. In a tight, unheated room stood a dog cold. During the night, even the form did not have time to dry, and training in wet is harmful to health.

The coach was amazed and invited Sagid to move to his house. After 12 years, in the year, Sagid himself will help residents of the village near Kizlyar, who were left without heat in houses in winter. Imamurza Elmurzaevich lived in a one -room apartment with his wife and three children. Sagida was settled in the kitchen, and from there the coach dragged the gas tile to the balcony.

Murtazaliev did not make a tragedy from his failures. He disappeared from morning till night in the gym, constantly threw the mentor with questions in the technique and tactics of struggle. Sagid progressed before his eyes, and for the first time he won the Russian championship among young men. It was the time of the next “Russian” revolution. Aliyev’s salaries were not enough even for a couple of medium -sized sneakers sold in the Makhachkala bazaar.

And soon the coach left for a contract to Turkey. He planned to pick up Murtazaliev with him, who at that moment had practically no chance to break into the Russian team, but this did not work out. In the year, Sagid Murtazaliev left for Ukraine, in Kyiv. For the national team of Ukraine, Sagid spoke for several years, including at the G. Olympic Games, but after Atlanta, in the end of the city, recovery stretched for almost a whole year.

The bones fused badly, and as a result of the operation, the left hand was 3 centimeters shorter than the right. True, on the carpet, according to the fighter, this does not cause him any inconvenience.

He fell into an accident three more times, but without severe damage. One by one, Sagid Murtazaliev won all the tournaments in which he had a chance to participate - there were no equal games in G. at the Olympic Games of the year in Sydney, where Sagid Murtazaliev confidently defeated all the rivals on the way to the gold medal. Then the world -famous athlete decided to go into politics.

However, the political path of Sagid turned out to be much thorny and more complicated. Many Dagestan politicians looked at the novice political path of a young and ambitious person onto. He was not persistently let into the clan system. The first victory, it would seem, in an unequal battle with political titans, he won when, contrary to everything and everything became a deputy of the NS Dagestan.

With the same perseverance, he achieved the chair of the head of one of the largest regions of the Republic - Kizlyarsky. Now he is heading the Russian Pension Fund for Dagestan.