Bakhtiyar Shakhabutdinovich Akhmedov (russian: Бахтияр Шахабутдинович Ахмедов, kum, Ахмедланы Багьтияр Шагьабутдинны уланы; born 5 August 1987 in
Buynaksk,
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
) is a Russian
wrestler of
Kumyk descent. Olympic gold medalist 2008.
Akhmedov competed at the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
in
120 kg category. In the finals, he lost to
Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan and was awarded silver medal. However, Taymazov was later stripped of his medal due to a positive doping test, thus Akhmedov was awarded gold.
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1987 births
Living people
People from Buynaksk
Kumyks
Olympic wrestlers for Russia
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Russia
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Russian male sport wrestlers
Sportspeople from Dagestan
21st-century Russian people
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