Career
Serious sport, freestyle wrestling, began for Bagayev with 15 years in Kazakhstan, where he stayed with his family during the deportation. In the 1960s he was a medalist for Russia, the master of sports and into the national team of the Kazakh Republic. In this team, he brought many victories.
After this, Bagayev was sent to Moscow for higher coaching courses.
He continued to serve on the carpet: in 1964, was a medalist of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, was included in the national team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo (unfortunately, he missed the games due to injury). Since 1965 Bagayev began coaching in Grozny.
Specialists have noted his exceptional pedagogical talent. In 1973, half of the Russian national team in wrestling were his disciples.
Thirty years Bagayev coached in Grozny.
In 1995, the Russian Olympic Committee invited him to work in Moscow. Now Bagayev a senior manager of one of the sports schools of the Russian capital. He has more than one hundred students, many from Chechnya.
Among them there are many budding teens winners of various youth sports.