“Sport AKIpress” – On the night of October 3, the USSR Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling, Honored Coach of Kyrgyzstan and the USSR, Honored Cultural Worker of the Kyrgyz SSR, died Donbaev Zhenish Bekboevich.
According to the State Sports Agency, he was 82 years old.
Zhenish Donbaev was born on July 12, 1945 in the village of Ken-Aral, Talas district, Talas region.
He began his wrestling career in 1965, achieving success both in the all-Union and international arenas. He performed until 1972, bringing world recognition to the country. From 1969 to 1972 he was a member of the USSR national freestyle wrestling team.
During his student years, Zhenish Bekboevich repeatedly became the champion of the republic, won gold medals at the championship of the Central Council of the All-Union Sports Society “Burevestnik” and at the X Spartakiad of Trade Unions of the USSR (1969).
Zhenish Donbaev also won gold at the USSR championships among students in 1969 and 1970.
After graduating from the Frunze Polytechnic Institute in 1969, he devoted his entire life to sports, working as a wrestling coach in sports schools of the republic from 1970 to 1991.
From 1991 to 1996, he was the head coach, and from 1996 to 1999, the head coach of the national freestyle wrestling team.
In addition, he trained wrestlers at the Olympic Training Center.
From 1999 to 2009, he headed the Olympic Reserve school (specializing in wrestling and boxing), where he trained hundreds of champions.
From 2009 to 2011, he headed the Wrestling Development Center of the Kyrgyz Republic. From 2011 until the illness that overtook him in the last years of his life, he worked as a coach at the Ilbirs Children and Youth Sports School of the Olympic Reserve (Leninsky district of Bishkek), passing on his rich experience to the younger generation.
Zhenishb Donbaev trained and educated dozens of talented wrestlers. Among them – Kenzhebek Omuraliev, Chynarbek Izabekov, Nurbek IzabekovMaksat Boburbekov, Nurdin DonbaevAlmazbek Askarov, Aseyin Torogeldiev, Baygazy KenzhebaevRuslan Mazhinov, Bolot Omurakunov, Islam Tazabekov, as well as hundreds of other champions and masters of sports.
His pupil Kenzhebek Omuraliev was a world champion, six-time champion of the USSR, four-time European champion, winner of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, multiple champion of the Kyrgyz Republic and international master of sports.
In 1993, Zhenishbek Bekboevich was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In 2001, he was awarded the title “Honored Worker of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic.” He was repeatedly awarded the title “Coach of the Year”.
On October 6, a farewell ceremony and funeral meeting dedicated to the memory of Zhenishbek Bekboevich Donbaev will be held at the Zhashtyk arena, and his body will be interred at the Ala-Archa cemetery in Bishkek.
