Bekhan Tungaev

Career

He started wrestling in 1967, when he went to section of wrestling trainer Degi Bagayev (Дэги Багаев), also in the same year he took part in his first championship - championship of the republic among boys, where he got the first place. He was also the of the tournament Olympic Hopes (Олимпийская надежда), where friendly armies played. At various tournaments he defeated many world, European and Olympic champions, such as: Gennadi Strakhov (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics), David Peterson (United States of America), Davat Surena (Mongolia), József Csatári (Hungary), Sukhet Saraya (Iran), Ilya Mate (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics), Paweł Kurchewski (Poland), Alyeksandr Prokopchuk (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics).

Achievements

• He became famous in Chechnya after winning a European championship back in the 1970s. In 1970 he won the championship of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He was also a three-time champion of the Soviet Armed Forces, two-time winner of the Soviet Cup, winner of international tournaments in Mongolia, Turkey, Iran, Hungary, Romania. He got the silver medal in the Games of the Soviet nations (Спартакиада народов СССР) and he was a three-time champion of the Caucasus.

Membership

He was member of the Soviet Union team was from 1969 to 1976.