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Native name | Russian: Руслан Рустямович Бичурин Tatar: Руслан Рөстәм улы Бичурин; | ||||||||||||||
Full name | Ruslan Rustyamoivch Bichurin | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Russian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Saransk, Mordovia, Russia | 14 February 1997||||||||||||||
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Country | Russia | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Weight class | 67 kg | ||||||||||||||
Rank | Master of sports[1] | ||||||||||||||
Event | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||
Club | Aleksey Mishin's wrestling acadedmy | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Petr Kargin[2] Mikhail Morozov[2] | ||||||||||||||
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Ruslan Rustyamoivch Bichurin (Russian: Руслан Рустямович Бичурин, Tatar: Руслан Рөстәм улы Бичурин; born 14 February 1997) is a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler of Volga Tatar ethnicity,[2] who claimed the silver medal at the European Championships[3]and 2024 Russian National Champion.[4]
Bichurin was born on February 14 1997, into a Volga Tatar family. He started wrestling at the age of eight. His first coach was Petr Kargin. He trains in Aleksey Mishin's wrestling academy in Saransk.[2]
In cadet level, he had the silver medal from the 2012 Russian championships at 42 kilos.[5] In 2018, he won his first national title at the senior level, he came first at the Russian cup.[6] In 2019, he was bronze medalist at the U23 Russian championships.[7] In 2022, Ruslan won the All-Russian Spartakiad in Kazan, in the final match he over world finalist Nazir Abdullaev.[8] In 2023, he won the bronze medal at the Russian Championships in Ufa, Bashkortostan.[9] and took the first place at the Oleg Karavayev international in Minsk, Belarus.[10] In 2024, he won Russian championships and became runner-up at the European Championships.[4][3]
He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[11] He was eliminated in his first match and he did not qualify for the Olympics.[11]