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Soslan Andiyev

1952 - 2018

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Soslan Petrovich Andiyev (Ossetian: Андиаты Пётры фырт Сослан, Russian: Сослан Петрович Андиев, 21 April 1952 – 22 November 2018) was a Soviet heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He was an Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980, world champion in 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1978, European champion in 1974, 1975 and 1982, and Soviet champion in 1973–78 and 1980. He won the World Cup in 1976 and 1981, but missed the 1984 Olympics due to their boycott by the Soviet Union and retired the same year. After that he first worked as a national wrestling coach, but in 1989 returned to his native Ossetia to become a sports functionary. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Soslan Andiyev is the 324th most popular wrestler (down from 224th in 2019), the 2,393rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,335th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Wrestler.

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Soslan Andiyev ranks 324 out of 1,027. Before her are Hitoshi Saito, Mr. Fuji, Marc Alexandre, Hakuhō Shō, Don Frye, and Rikishi. After her are Diamond Dallas Page, Pavel Pinigin, Frederick Humphreys, Scott Steiner, Ezio Gamba, and Jim Neidhart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Soslan Andiyev ranks 599. Before her are Antônio Silva, António Lima Pereira, Pierluigi Marzorati, Olga Mineyeva, Lajos Rácz, and Jörgen Augustsson. After her are Hasse Backe, Susan Seidelman, César Cueto, Angelika Bahmann, Mabel Rivera, and Thomas Ahlström. Among people deceased in 2018, Soslan Andiyev ranks 503. Before her are Alberto Dines, Marielle Franco, Jānis Bojārs, Igor Korobov, Danny Kirwan, and Rim Banna. After her are Matti Kassila, Adebayo Adedeji, Peter Hill-Wood, Pierre Pincemaille, Arnold Kopelson, and Jim Neidhart.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Soslan Andiyev ranks 2,393 out of 3,761. Before her are Kostya Tszyu (1969), Mikhail Anikushin (1917), Olga Mineyeva (1952), Boris Kuznetsov (1928), Aleksandr Bashirov (1955), and Valeriya (1968). After her are Larisa Lazutina (1965), Boris Berezovsky (1969), Igor Jijikine (1965), Pavel Pinigin (1953), Alexander Zhukov (1956), and Alexey Okladnikov (1908).

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Among WRESTLERS In Russia

Among wrestlers born in Russia, Soslan Andiyev ranks 11. Before her are Buvaisar Saitiev (1975), Ivan Yarygin (1948), Alfred Asikainen (1888), Anatoly Roshchin (1932), Sergei Beloglazov (1956), and Boris Gurevich (1931). After her are Pavel Pinigin (1953), Roman Dmitriyev (1949), Adam Saitiev (1977), Artur Taymazov (1979), Shamil Khisamutdinov (1950), and Anatoly Beloglazov (1956).

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