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Birth name | Abdusalam Mamatkhanovich Gadisov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Mr Olympia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Makhachkala, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 26 March 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | Light Heavyweight (97 kg) Middleweight (formally, 86 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rank | Grand Master of Sports in Freestyle Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Dynamo wrestling club Armor Functional Training Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Magomed Magomedov, Gaidar Gaidarov, Imanmurza Aliev | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Abdusalam Mamatkhanovich Gadisov (born 26 March 1989) is a Russian former freestyle wrestler. [1] He competed in the freestyle 96 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics; after defeating Taimuraz Tigiyev in the qualification round, he was eliminated by Reza Yazdani in the 1/8 finals. [2] [3]
In 2014 he became World freestyle wrestling champion at the 97 kg division, and was the runner-up in 2015.
At the national level, he became Russian national champion in 2012. In the final he defeated Olympic Champion and five time World Champion Khadzhimurat Gatsalov. He won the Russian National Freestyle Wrestling Championships again in 2015.
He is a devout Sunni Muslim. [4]
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