Rustem Cossacks Biography

Vice-President of the Crimean Word Federation, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, a classic fighter of the classical style Rustem Cossacks twice became the world champion and won the Olympic Games Final Life of his main battle Rustem Kazakov won on the Olympic carpet in Munich, literally gnawed “Gold” from the owner of the Hans-Jurgen Vail. The whole hall shouted, supporting his compatriot.

Then, Rustem Abdullaevich recalls, the main thing was to imagine that the public was glad of your exit to the carpet. But such thoughts went out of my head as soon as the gong sounded. Athletes who have been waiting for four years to prove to the world that they are the best, that the years of training were not in vain, they went in the final. They all wanted me to be on the shoulder blades.

I earned four points, but the German did not lag behind, he had three. And moreover, we understood that each reception could be decisive. I remember all this by the chill, although for more than 40 years have passed. Here is the last round, there are two seconds left before the end of the fight, and I, with a throw over my back, put it cleanly on the shoulder blades!

And imagine, all the people began to whistle, scream, they say, how it was, their idol put a guy from the instrumental plant on their shoulder blades. Of course, I had mistakes during the tournament, but he tuned me up, prompted which countermeasures should be taken and, most importantly, believed that I would win. And I was lucky that he was next to me. Exactly according to his methodology, I succeeded.

You need to believe your mentor. He also fought at the Olympics, but did not become a champion because of the mistakes of refereeing. And my first coach was very happy about this victory. And I still imagined how they would meet me at home. There was also an ideological struggle: there is capitalism, but here is socialism. It is difficult for the young people to understand, but we were "cultivated", they said that you are going to the capitalist country, the tips should win, only victory is needed.

Even the slogan was: "50 gold medals in honor of the flight of the USSR," it happened, there is my merit in this. Well, after the Olympics for the premium I bought the first car - the white Volga. Before the pedestal, standing on the pedestal, listening to the anthem in his honor, Rustem knew that it all started with the sports club of the instrumental plant in Tashkent.

His parents were in this city after the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, in the same place, in the year, he was born - the future Olympic.

Rustem Abdullaevich recalls how, at the age of 12, he first saw the demonstration of the fighters and asked him to accept him in the section: “I loved football and played it since childhood, but once a man of wrestlers arrived, they showed techniques, strength, raised weights. I was impressed by the dexterity and lightness with which they did all this. And then I did not know that my future mentor - that my future mentor was.

Two-time champion of the Soviet Union in the classic Greco-Roman struggle Refat Ablaev, so I began to deal with the fight, and at the same time played football for the instrumental plant, was the captain of the team. " After he twice becomes the champion of the Union among adults and he is enrolled in the national team. And then problems began on the unexpected side - they did not want to let him out outside the country - to the international tournament in Bulgaria.

They entrusted me with, and I was just lucky. When I won in Sofia, they said that there were no comments and violations, then I had the opportunity to go abroad, even if each exit controlled the KGB. But every victory I justified the hopes of those who signed under my surname. In the year-I go to the World Cup among adults and take 7th place, but in the next-they still enable me exactly the first number to the Olympic team, I have to go to Games in Mexico City to fight in a weight of 57 kg.

But a week before the competition, I injured the rib and could not fight. How offensive it was! Instead, he fought a spare and took only third place. But Kazakov, because of his age, still had an Olympic chance. In the year, he won the World Cup in Argentina. All friends met me with flowers, were very glad that at 22 I became the world champion. Even the prize was given - one and a half thousand rubles, and a little later a two -room apartment!

Eh, how important it is at this age not to get frozen: he has become a champion - and you can’t train! Of course, many friends immediately appear, everyone calls to take a walk. And if you are walking, then you don’t train, so I laughed all this. As a result, the victory at the Olympics and another silver at the World Cup in Tehran. ”In M, he finally moved to the Crimea.

Before the finale, I “chased” the weight in the bathhouse in front of the Olympics in Munich at Rustem Kazakov had six kilograms of excess weight that he had to drive at an accelerated pace: “I had to lose weight to get into his weight category 57 kg. And literally in two weeks I achieved this. The diet was hard: I lived on the same broth,“ drove ”the weight every day. It turned out that I have three extra pounds - and there was no money for “gold”!It was late evening, and we ran around the bathroom until three in the morning!

I slept only for an hour, weighed in the morning - I had a reserve gram, and I had a little bit so as not to exhaust at all. And or not, no one is interested in: you must fight and prove what the Soviet person is capable of. "