Adam Saitiev

Adam Saitiev

Personal information
Nationality	Russian
Ethnicity	Chechen
Born	(1977-12-12) December 12, 1977 Khasavyurt, Dagestan, Russia
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Event(s)	Freestyle
Coached by	Viktor Alexeev, Abdul Saitiev
Medal record Men's freestyle wrestling Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Freestyle 85 kg World Championships Ankara 1999 Freestyle 76 kg Tehran 2002 Freestyle 84 kg European Championships 1999 Minsk Freestyle 76 kg 2000 Budapest Freestyle 85 kg 2006 Moscow Freestyle 84 kg 1998 Bratislava Freestyle 76 kg

Adam Hamidovich Saitiev, also spelled Saytiev, (Chechen: Адам Хамидович Сайтиев, born December 12, 1977) is a Russian wrestler of Chechen heritage, who won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics for the Russian Federation at 85 kg cat.^[1] Adam also won the Wrestling World Championships in 1999 and 2002.

His elder brother Buvaisar Saitiev, also a wrestler, won gold in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and again in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling career

Adam initially started his senior-level international career at 69 kg, or around 152 lbs. He found the weight cut too severe, and soon moved up to 76 kg, where he was world champ in 1999. However, this was his elder brother Buvaisar's weight, and Adam wanted to compete alongside his brother at the Olympics, not compete with him for a spot on the team. Adam moved up to 85 kg, and despite being undersized, won two world-level titles at the weight.

Saitiev made a comeback in 2012. He found significant success, but in the Russian freestyle wrestling championships 2012 final match lost to Denis Tsargush (1-0; 1-0)

Adam is a recipient of the Order of Honor (2001) and Order of Friendship (2004).

Match results

World Championships & Olympic Games Matches
Res.	Record	Opponent	Score	Date	Event	Location
2002 UWW world at 84kg
Win	21-3	Yoel Romero	4-3	September 5, 2002	2002 World Wrestling Championships	Tehran, Iran
Win	20-3	Arkadii Tzopa	Fall
Win	19-3	Marcin Jurecki	7-3
Win	18-3	Aman Deep	Tech. Fall
Win	17-3	Narantsetseg Burenbaatar	Tech. Fall
2000 Olympic at 85kg
Win	16-3	Yoel Romero	Fall	September 28, 2000	2000 Summer Olympics	Sydney, Australia
Win	15-3	Magomed Ibragimov	3-0
Win	14-3	Yang Hyun-mo	5-0
Win	13-3	Igor Praporshchikov	Fall
Win	12-3	Beibulat Musaev	4-1
1999 UWW world at 76kg
Win	11-3	Alexander Leipold	6-3	October 7, 1999	1999 World Wrestling Championships	Ankara, Turkey
Win	10-3	Joe Williams	Fall
Win	9-3	Alik Musaev	4-0
Win	8-3	Arpad Ritter	11-3
Win	7-3	Radoslaw Horbik	9-0
Win	6-3	Ruslan Khinchagov	7-1
1997 UWW world 6th at 69kg
Loss	5-3	Davoud Ghanbari	Inj. Def.	August 29, 1997	1997 World Wrestling Championships	Krasnojarsk, Russia
Loss	5-2	Zaza Zazirov	2-4
Win	5-1	Yüksel Şanlı	Fall
Win	4-1	Almazbek Askarov	Fall
Win	3-1	David Gagishvili	Fall
Win	2-1	Elchad Allakhverdiev	4-2
Loss	1-1	Igor Kupeev	2-5
Win	1-0	Juan Carlos Rivero	Tech. Fall

References