The World champion-2013 in free-style wrestling in a super heavyweight Hadzhimurat Gatsalov took the second place in poll on a rank of the best athlete of Russia in September according to the TV channel "Russia-2" and portal version Sportbox.ru.

Hadzhimurat Gatsalov reached the final vote in which Dmitry Muserskomu - 46 against 54 percent conceded to the champion of Europe-2013 on volleyball.  Behind them world champion-2013 Dmitry Shishin (beach soccer), world champions-2013 Yury Postrigay and Alexander Dyachenko (rowing on kayaks and a canoe) and the champion of Europe-2013 Tatyana Koshelev (volleyball) settled down.

Let's remind that in the recent World Cup in Budapest Hadzhimurat Gatsalov debuted in the most prestigious weight category to 120 kg and took gold! It already the fifth title of the world champion in his career. Four previous, and also it won Olympic Games-2004 gold in category to 96 kg. In the first fight of tournament Gatsalov got a strong hematoma of the right eye. The doctor recommended to act, but Gatsalov continued fight. In the ending the right eye at it almost swam away that didn't prevent to carry out two throws on three points, brought an early victory. And the semi-final in which he in 30 seconds defeated the prize-winner of the European championship-2013 of Georgian Geno Petriashvili became Gatsalov's most beautiful fight.

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