Togrul Asgarov

Togrul Shahriyar oglu Asgarov (born 17 September 1992, Ganja, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler, an Olympic and European champion.¹

At the London Olympics of 2012 he won the gold medal in the men's 60 kg freestyle, beating Besik Kudukhov of Russia (1–0, 5–0).¹ At Rio 2016 he took silver in the 65 kg class, and he won gold at the 2012 European Championships and at the 2015 European Games in Baku.¹² The Arabic article records that he began with judo, took up wrestling in 2005 under the coach Elchin Zeynalov, and studied at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Education and Sport from 2009 to 2013.²

In May 2017 he was disqualified for one year for a doping-rules violation involving higenamine.¹

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