Arsen Alakhverdiyev
![]() Alakhverdiyev at the 1973 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 24 January 1949 Magaramkent, Dagestan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (age 75)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 154 cm (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Freestyle wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Burevestnik Makhachkala SKA Makhachkala[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Armenak Karapetyan[2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arsen Shakhlamazovich Alakhverdiyev (Russian: Арсен Шахламазович Алахвердиев, born 24 January 1949) is a retired Russian flyweight freestyle wrestler who won silver medals at the 1972 Olympics and 1973 World Championships. He held the European title in 1972, 1973 and 1975 and the World Cup in 1973. Domestically, Alakhverdiyev won the Soviet title in 1975, placing second in 1972, 1974, 1976 and 1977 and third in 1971.[1][2]
Alakhverdiyev was born in a remote village and took up wrestling in September 1964 when he began his studies in the regional capital, Makhachkala. He was motivated by example of the Dagestani wrestler Ali Aliyev. Alakhverdiyev then knew little about technique, but was well trained, and could do one-handed pull-ups. He retired at the age of 30, and then worked for one year as an engineer, before returning to wrestling as a coach. His son Velikhan also became a wrestler and won medals at the European championships.[3]
References[edit]
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- ^ a b Arsen Alakhverdiyev. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b c Allakhverdiev, Arsen (URS). iat.uni-leipzig.de
- ^ a b Арсену Алахвердиеву исполнилось 65 лет. wrestdag.ru (24 January 2014)
External links[edit]
- Arsen Alakhverdiyev at the International Wrestling Database
- Arsen Alakhverdiyev at Olympedia
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Dagestan
- Olympic wrestlers for the Soviet Union
- Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Soviet male sport wrestlers
- Russian male sport wrestlers
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- European Wrestling Champions
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Burevestnik (sports society) sportspeople
- Russian sport wrestler stubs