Headercolor: | Gold |
Native Name: | Russian: Сосруко Каральбиевич Кодзоков |
Сосруко Кодзоков Sosruko Kodzokov | |
Nationality: | Russian Brazilian |
Fullname: | Sosruko Karalbievich Kodzokov |
Birth Date: | 1993 11, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Atazhukino, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia |
Height: | 177 cm |
Country: | (2012-2021) (2023 — present) |
Sport: | Wrestling |
Event: | Greco-Roman |
Club: | Yarygin's martial arts palace (Moscow) Olympic training center Nº 64 (Moscow) |
Weight Class: | 87 kg |
Rank: | International Master of sports[1] |
Coach: | Anzor Kardanov Sergey Shevyrev Samvel Danielyan |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Sosruko Karalbievich Kodzokov (Russian: Сосруко Каральбиевич Кодзоков; born 17 November 1993) is a Russian-Brazilian Greco-Roman wrestler of Circassian ethnicity, who competes at 87 kilograms. 2024 Pan American champion, 2016 World cup silver medalist. 2017 Russian national champion.
Kodzokov was born on 17 November 1993 into a Circassian family in Atazhukino village, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.[2] He started wrestling as a child in 2004 under his first coach Khasan Tezadov.[3]
He made the European team in 2012, where he competed at the Junior European championships at 84 kilos and won the gold medal.[4] In 2013, he won the gold medal at the Junior world championships, in the final match he defeated Yousef Ghaderian of Iran.[5] During 2016, he took the bronze medal from the Ivan Poddubny grand prix, was runner-up at the World Cup as a Russian team member, bronze medalist in the senior Greco-Roman 85 kg event at the Russian national championships and placer of the Al Rosa tournament in Moscow.[6] [7] [8] [9] In 2017, he became Russian national champion at 85 kilograms, finished with gold medal at the Al Rosa (Moscow lights) tournament and was the finalist at the Oleg Karavayev Memorial in Minsk, Belarus.[10] [11] [12] In 2018, he won the World Military Championship in 87 kg[13] In 2019, he finished with silver medals at the Russian National Championships and Grand Prix of Germany.[14] In 2020, he was third at the Russian cup.[15] Since 2023, he started competing for Brazil in international level. In November 2023, he took the third place at the Ivan Poddubny ranking series as a Brazilian athlete.[16] In 2024, he won the Pan American Championships, in the final match he beat american Mahmoud Fawzy.[17]
He has a younger brother Alikhan, that competes in Greco-Roman wrestling as well.