fullname coach club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title name style
nurlan altynbekovich koizhaiganov kanat nurlasiev professional sport club daulet ayagoz , kazakh ssr , soviet union 60 kg lb 0 on 1.70 0 on 27 march 1977 nurlan koizhaiganov
 nurlan koizhaiganov greco-roman
nurlan koizhaiganov

nurlan altynbekovich koizhaiganov -lrb- ; born march 27 , 1977 in ayagoz -rrb- is a retired amateur kazakh greco-roman wrestler , who competed in the men 's lightweight category .
he scored top five finishes in the 60-kg division in two consecutive editions of the asian games -lrb- 1998 and 2002 -rrb- , and later represented his nation kazakhstan at the 2004 summer olympics .
before being retired from wrestling in 2005 , koizhaiganov also trained throughout his sporting career at professional sport club daulet in semipalatinsk , under his personal coach kanat nurlasiev .
koizhaiganov qualified for the kazakh squad in the men 's 60 kg class at the 2004 summer olympics in athens .
earlier in the process , he placed first in his respective category from the olympic qualification tournament in tashkent , uzbekistan to guarantee a spot on the kazakh wrestling team .
he easily ousted italy 's paolo fucile in his opening match by a quick 7 -- 0 margin , and then overwhelmed 2000 olympic bronze medalist akaki chachua of georgia 7 -- 6 in the prelim pool to clinch his spot for the next round of the competition .
koizhaiganov lost to neighboring russia 's aleksey shvetsov in the quarterfinal match at 1 -- 3 , and to japan 's makoto sasamoto in a consolation playoff with a comfortable 4 -- 0 verdict , dropping him to sixth in the final standings .
