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A Tajikistan judoka, Rasul Boqiev won the bronze medal for the 73 Kg Judo in the Beijing Olympics 2008. This was the first Olympic medal for the country. He is considered as the one of the top athletes in Tajikistan and in the world under 73 Kg. His first international competition is at the Asian championships in Tashkent 2005, where he won the bronze medal. […] In Beijing Elnur Mammadli won the gold and Wang Ki-Chun the silver medal respectively. (via THE WORLD PORTAL » Beijing Olympics 2008 from Tajikistan)

An Egyptian judoka, Hesham Mesbah won the bronze medal for the 90 Kg judo in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At the age of 26, Mesbah is already paving the way for the current national Judo team. Mesbah was driven by his brother Hany and started playing Judo at the age of 9 in Ittihad Club in Alexandria where he was born. His first coach was Fathy El-Gebily. He practiced in the Al Etehad Alsakandry club in Alexandria, Egypt. He finished second in the African Judo championships. He won the Africa games in 2007 with a gold medal. In the bronze medal match in Beijing he defeated Dafreville from France. (via THE WORLD PORTAL » Beijing Olympics 2008 from Egypt)

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Uzbekistani judoka Abdullo Tangriev won silver medal in +100 kg judo in Beijing Olympics. He was defeated by Satoshi Ishii from Japan. Tangriev is one of the outstanding sportsmen of Uzbekistan winning in several international competitions. He won bronze medals in 2003 and 2007 world championship. He won silver in Busan and bronze medal in Doha Asian games. (via THE WORLD PORTAL » Beijing Olympics 2008 from Uzbekistan)

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Radoslav Velikov is a Bulgarian freestyle wrestler. He won a bronze medal for the freestyle 55kg wrestling event in this summer Olympics at Beijing. He has been engaged in Wrestling since 1997. He won the 2006 world championships and was second in 2005 championships. He was second at the European Championships in Varna in 2005 and third in Europe in Sofia in 2007. In the bronze medal match he defeated Namig Sevdimov of Azerbaijan. Velikov, who participated in the tournament with torn ligaments of the left knee, started the match cautiously. He started attacking from the very beginning of the second part, but Sevdimov scored the first point. In the third part Velikov started with furious attacks, which in the first few seconds brought him a point lead, which was enough for the medal. (via THE WORLD PORTAL » Beijing Olympics 2008 from Bulgaria)

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Azerbaijan judoist Movlud Miraliyev won his first victory. He take the bronze medal in the men’s judo -100 kg class final and he was defeated by Askhat Zhitkeyev of Kazakhstan. […] The two participants share the bronze Medal in men’s judo competition at the beijing Olympics - one of Azebaijani judoist and other of Henk Grol of the Netherlands. (via THE WORLD PORTAL » Beijing Olympics from Azerbaijan)

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Mammadli Elnur is a dazzling performer from Azerbaijan. He won the gold medal in the Men’s Judo 73 kg competition. In the final Mammadli has beaten the favorite Wang Ki-Chun from Korea.He had also second place in the World Judo Championships 2007 and first place in the European Judo Championships 2006. Elnur technique is really good and he is a brilliant athlete. (via THE WORLD PORTAL » Beijing Olympics from Azerbaijan)

Tuvshinbayar Naidan is the first man to fulfill the dreams of all Mongolians. He is the medal hope for Mongolia. He received gold medal for Judo which is the first medal for Mongolia in its entire history. Naidan became an icon of Mongolia from that moment onwards. He received honor and cash prizes for raising the glory of his country, Mongolia. He defeated Kazakhstan’s Askhat Zhitkveyev in the men’s 100 kg class. For last summer Olympics 2004 he won Bronze medal for his category. He had a lots of fans following him after his victory in Summer Olympics. (via THE WORLD PORTAL » Beijing Olympics 2008 from Mongolia)

Askhat Zhitkeyev of Kazakhstan took silver Medal in the final of the men’s 100-kg judo competition. Mongolia has won it’s first Olympic gold medal in this competition. Naidan posted three scoring throws to outclass Zhitkeyev, each time using brute strength to pick his opponent off the floor and roll him on to his back. Two minutes in and diving low, he slung Zhitkeyev across his shoulders and tossed him on his side to post a high waza ari score. (via THE WORLD PORTAL » Beijing Olympics From Kazakhstan)