[1] Baiseitov wrestled for the Kazakh squad in two editions of the Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000), finishing eleventh in Atlanta and tenth in Sydney, respectively.

[3] Baiseitov reached the pinnacle of his wrestling career, when he scored an enormous upset over the reigning Olympic titleholder Azcuy to win a gold medal at the 1998 World Championships in Gävle, Sweden.

[4] Baiseitov's success continued by edging past Japan's Takamitsu Katayama (5–4) to claim the middleweight title at the Asian Games three months later in Bangkok.

Six months earlier, he defeated Egypt's Ahmed Fahme to round off the podium with a bronze and secure a berth at the third Olympic Qualification Tournament in Alexandria.

[5] He lost his opening match 1–4 to Finland's three-time Olympian and eventual bronze medalist Marko Yli-Hannuksela, but bounced back to oust his French rival and 1995 world champion Yvon Riemer with a convincing 4–2 victory.