Career
Throughout his sporting career, Cheglakov has claimed two gold medals each in the same division at the 2001 Asian Wrestling Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South of Korea, and later represented his nation Uzbekistan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cheglakov also trained for the Trade Union Sports Club in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, under head coach Kamil Fatkulin. Cheglakov set a sporting headline at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South of Korea, where he prevailed over host nation"s Park Myung-Suk to take home the gold medal in the men"s heavyweight category.
He scored a total of six technical points to beat Latvia"s Igors Kostins, but ended his Olympic campaign with a dramatic defeat against Turkey"s Mehmet Özal, who later continued his quest to take home the bronze medal, finishing second only in the preliminary pool, and fourteenth in the final rankings.
