Kazakh judo star retires – Wrestling

Famous Kazakh judoka Zhansai Smagulov (73kg) ended his career as an athlete and decided to take up coaching, Sports.kz reports with reference to SPORT+.

The last start of the 32-year-old Karaganda resident was the World Grand Prix stage in Linz, Austria (March 8-10). There, after defeating Mexican Ulises Mendez in the first round of the up to 73 kg weight category, he refused to continue fighting because he was seriously injured. For this reason, Smagulov was forced to leave the tatami as a top-level judoka.

Zhansai Smagulov is the winner of three stages of the World Grand Prix (2015, 2017, 2018), bronze medalist of two stages of the World Grand Prix (2016, 2017), bronze medalist of two Asian Championships (2016, 2017), finalist of two stages of the Big.. .