Kazhymukan Munaitpasov

One of the most important moments in his career was in 1910, when he was awarded the gold medal in Buenos Aires and became World Champion in Gothenburg in Sweden for the first time.

One of his famous victories was the defeat of Japanese jiu-jitsu master Harakiki Jindofu, who did not survive the fatal injury of the spine he received during the fight.

Before retiring from his wrestling career in 1940, he collected over 100.000 rubles for the USSR Defense Fund by showing his strength and tricks in a small circus tent to the public during the Second World War.

He died on 12 August 1948 in Lyeninskoe znamya kolkhoz (South Kazakhstan Province), without any disciples and learners and leaving his four wives in Turkestan.

(1985; starring Bakhytjan Esjanov, Gyeorgiy Khachaturovich and Aleksandr Pankratov-Chorny) as well as a kazakh film Kazhymukan (2024).