From July 24 to August 4, 2013 in Sofia passed the XXII summer Deaflympics. In these representative multisports competitions which are held time in four years, more than 3000 athletes from 85 countries took part.

In tournament on free-style wrestling Russia was represented by the pupil of Makhachkala sport school "Dynamo" Biysultan Abakarov. Year earlier in the capital of Bulgaria the Dagestan wrestler won a gold medal in the World Cup among hard of hearing persons. And this time Sofia became the happy city for Biysultan who in all carried-out fights looked obviously more strongly than the rivals and deservedly rose by the highest step of a pedestal in weight to 55 kg.

In tournament of judoists in Sofia native of Makhachkala Murad Magomedilayev acted, and it too surpassed all the rivals, having brought second Dagestan "gold" in a moneybox of  Russian national team.

The Russian delegation on Deaflympic, consisting of 300 athletes, also included the Dagestan tkhekvondist Arsene Gasanov, but, unfortunately, it remained behind line of prize-winners.

Arsen MAGOMEDOV