86 kg FS - AUGUST 20 Sadulaev is talented champion
J’DEN COX
Residence: Columbia, Mo. Club: Missouri Wrestling Foundation College: Missouri High School: Hickman (Mo.) Born: March 3, 1995
Age: 21
Career Notes • 2016 U.S. Olympic Team member • 2016 World Olympic Qualifier champi- on (Mongolia) • Third in 2016 German Grand Prix • Fourth in 2015 U.S. Open • Third in 2014 University Nationals • Two-time NCAA champion and three- time All-American for Missouri • 2012 Junior Nationals champion in freestyle • 2011 Cadet Nationals champion in Greco-Roman Past Olympics: None Past Sr. Worlds: None UWW World Rank: No. 10
Expected field at 86 kg/189 lbs. Azerbaijan - Magomedgadzhi Khatiyev
or Sharif Sharifov Belarus - Amarhadji Mahamedau Bulgaria - Mihail Ganev China – Bi Shengfeng Cuba - Reineris Salas Egypt - Mohamed Ali Zaghoul Mohamed Georgia - Sandro Aminashvili or Dato Marsaghishvili Hungary - Istvan Vereb Iran - Alireza Karimimachiani Kazakhstan - Aslan Kakhidze Korea - Kim Gwan-Uk Mongolia - Uitumen Orgodol Poland - Zbigniew Baranowski Puerto Rico - Jaime Espinal Russia - Abdulrashid Sadulaev Tunisia - Mohamed Saadaoui Turkey - Selim Yasar United States – J’den Cox Venezuela - Pedro Ceballos
One of the most exciting young wrestlers on the planet is 2014 and 2015 World champion Abdulrashid Sadulaev of Russia. A 2012 and 2013 Cadet World champion, Sadulaev jumped onto the Senior level in 2014, won the European Championships, then claimed the gold medal at the Worlds in Uzbekistan. He kept it rolling in 2015, winning the European Games then his second World title in Las Vegas. He has won 11 straight Senior events heading into Rio. Numerous past World or Olympic medalists are gunning for Sadulaev, who is going to his first Olympic Games. Turkey’s Selim Yasar won a 2015 World silver medal and a 2014 World bronze medal, along with a 2009 Junior World title. Cuban star Reineris Salas boasts three
World medals, including silvers in 2013 and 2014, plus a bronze in 2010. A 2015 Pan American Games champion, Salas has also won four Pan American Championships titles and two Junior World bronze medals. Georgia boasts a 2015 World bronze medalist, Sandro Aminashvili, but could also enter 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Dato Marsagishvili, who was a 2011 World bronze medalist and 2011 Junior World champion. Azerbaijan also has options here. Magomedhadshi Khatiev was fifth at the 2015 World Championships and second at the 2015 European Championships. 2012 Olympic champion and 2011 World champion Sharif Sharifov competed at 97 kg the last three years but came down to 86 kg for the German Grand Prix, where he lost in the finals to another Azeri, 2015 Junior World champion Nurmagomed Gadzhiev. Bulgaria’s Mihail Ganev was a 2010
World champion, but has not won anoth- er World medal. A 2005 Junior World champion, Ganev scored a fifth-place fin- ish at the 2015 Worlds in Las Vegas. Iran is expected to bring 2015 World
bronze medalist Alireza Karimimachiani, who was also a 2014 Junior World cham- pion and won the 2015 Asian Championships. Istvan Vereb of Hungary won a 2013 World bronze medal and competed at the 2008 Olympic Games. Vereb won the European Olympic Qualifier to join the field in Rio. 2012 Olympic silver medalist Jaime
Espinal of Puerto Rico punched his return trip to the Olympics by placing
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J’den Cox: by Tony Rotundo
second at the Pan American Olympic Qualifier. Uitumen Orgodol of Mongolia, who competed in the 2008 Olympics and was a 2014 World Military champion, qualified for Rio by claiming gold at the Asian Olympic Qualifier. J’den Cox of the United States is a
dark horse candidate, after bursting onto the Senior scene by winning the U.S. Olympic Team Trials from a No. 9 seed. The two-time NCAA champion from Missouri responded days later by winning the 1st World Olympic Qualifier in Mongolia. Cox had strong efforts at the Beat the Streets Dual, the World Cup and the German Grand Prix. Mohamad Aly Zaghloul Mohamed of
Egypt won the African/Oceania Olympic Qualifier and has won two African Championships. Bi Shengfeng won gold at the 2nd World Olympic Qualifier in Turkey. Aslan Kakhidze of Kazakhstan placed
fifth at the 2014 World Championships, and was second in the 2014 Asian Championships. Kim Gwan-Uk of Korea was third in the 2014 Asian Games. Mohamed Saadaoui of Tunisia is a two- time African champion. Other veterans include Amarhadji Mahamedau of Belarus, Poland’s Zbigniew Baranowski and Pedro Ceballos of Venezuela.
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