Rafail Aiukaev

Rafail Rushanovich Aiukaev is a Russian taekwondo practitioner. He was a silver medalist at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships.

Career

From Syzran, he was coached in Taekwondo by Anar and Tural Askerovs. He won the +87kg division at the 2017 World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan, defeating 2016 Olympic champion Radik Isayev in the semi final and was awarded gold after his opponent in the final, Maicon Andrade of Brazil, withdrew.
In 2019 in Bari, Italy, he won the G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships defeating Alexander Bachmann of Germany in the final of the 87kg division.
Competing as a Russian Individual Neutral Athletes he defeated compatriot and 2020 Olympic champion Vladislav Larin in the final of the men’s +87kg category at the 10th WT Presidents Cup 2025 Europe Region in May 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
He was a silver medalist in the heavyweight division at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in China in October 2025, defeating Andrii Harbar of Ukraine and then Caden Cunningham of Great Britain in the semi-final in two rounds, before losing in the final in three rounds against South Korean
Kang Sang-hyun.