Anzor Boltukaev

{{short description|Russian freestyle wrestler (born 1986)}}

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| name = Anzor Boltukayev

| native_name = Анзор Болтукаев

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| fullname = Anzor Adamovich Boltukayev

| nickname = The Giant Slayer
The God of Thunder

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1986|04|05}}

| birth_place = Grozny, Chechnya, Russia

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| height = {{convert|1.80|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

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| sport = Wrestling

| weight_class = 97-125 kg

| event = Freestyle

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| coach = Jaa Umarov, Ali Davudov

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| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's freestyle wrestling }}

{{MedalCountry | {{RUS}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}

{{MedalBronze | 2013 Budapest | 96 kg }}

{{MedalCompetition | European Championships }}

{{Medal|Disqualified|2017 Novi Sad|97 kg}}

{{MedalGold | 2016 Riga | 97 kg }}

{{Medal|Country| {{flagicon|Chechnya}} Chechnya }}

{{MedalCompetition|Russian National Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2016 Yakutsk|97 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2013 Krasnoyarsk |96 kg}}

{{MedalSilver|2014 Yakutsk|97 kg}}

{{MedalBronze|2008 St.Petersburg |96 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition | Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin }}

{{MedalGold | 2016 Krasnoyarsk | 97 kg }}

{{MedalSilver|2017 Krasnoyarsk|125 kg}}

{{MedalSilver |2013 Krasnoyarsk | 96 kg }}

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Anzor Adamovich Boltukayev ({{langx|ru|Анзор Адамович Болтукаев}}; born 5 April 1986 in Chechnya) is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Chechen descent. He competes in the 96 kg division and won the bronze medal in the same division at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships defeated Aleksey Krupnyakov of Kyrgyzstan.{{cite web |url=http://www.fila-official.com/sites/ultimate/index.php?option=com_competition&act=ficheLutteur&style=&choix_poids=6026&choix_pays=&id_inscrit=73625&act2=resultat |title=HERACLES Ultimate |website=www.fila-official.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106043411/http://www.fila-official.com/sites/ultimate/index.php?option=com_competition&act=ficheLutteur&style=&choix_poids=6026&choix_pays=&id_inscrit=73625&act2=resultat |archive-date=6 January 2014 |url-status=dead}}

At the "Ivan Yarygin 2016" he beat the current World Champion Kyle Snyder and Olympic gold medalist Jake Varner of USA.{{cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/boltukaev-stops-world-olympic-champs-on-final-day-of-yarygin-grand-prix |title=Boltukaev Stops World, Olympic Champs on Final Day of Yarygin Grand Prix |publisher=unitedworldwrestling.org |accessdate=January 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306220643/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/boltukaev-stops-world-olympic-champs-on-final-day-of-yarygin-grand-prix |archive-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}

In the 2016 European Wrestling Championships he won the gold medal against Ivan Yankouski of Belarus.{{cite web |url=http://tass.ru/sport/2726421 |title=Anzor Boltukayev became European champion in freestyle wrestling |publisher=tass.ru |accessdate=March 9, 2016}}

He competed at Olympics 2016 in the freestyle 97 kg event and was eliminated by Valerii Andriitsev of Ukraine in the 1/8 final.

Boltukayev failed a drugs test at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships testing positive for higenamine. His subsequent result was disqualified and his silver medal was revoked, he was also banned for two years from 13 September 2018.{{Cite news|url=http://www.tas-cas.org/en/general-information/news-detail/article/cas-upholds-the-appeal-filed-by-the-world-anti-doping-agency-wada-in-the-case-of-anzor-boltukaev.html|title=News detail|access-date=2018-09-16|language=en}}