Sihamir Osmanov ( mk, Шихамир Османов; born May 25, 1975, in

Makhachkala Makhachkala ( rus, Махачкала, , məxətɕkɐˈla, links=yes),; av, Махӏачхъала, Maħaçqala; ce, ХӀинжа-ГӀала, Hinƶa-Ġala; az, Маһачгала, Mahaçqala; nog, Махачкала; lbe, Махачкъала; ...

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) is a retired amateur Macedonian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category. He finished fifth in the 74-kg division at the

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, and later represented the

Republic of Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

at the

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. Osmanov also trained full-time as a member of the wrestling squad for Varda Makedonia Sports Club in

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under his personal coach and 2000 Olympian Nasir Gadzhikhanov. Osmanov qualified for his naturalized Macedonian squad in the men's 74 kg class at the

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by receiving a berth and rounding out the fifth spot from the

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. He lost his opening match 1–3 to neighboring Bulgaria's

Nikolay Paslar Nikolay Ivanovich Paslar ( bg, Николай Иванович Паслар; born June 12, 1980, in Taraclia, Moldavian SSR) is an amateur Bulgarian freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category. Considered as one of Bulgar ...

, and could not attain a single point to overwhelm Poland's Krystian Brzozowski by a 4–0 deficit, leaving him on the bottom of the prelim pool and placing seventeenth in the final standings.

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* 1975 births Living people Macedonian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for North Macedonia Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Macedonian people of Dagestani descent Sport wrestlers from Makhachkala Naturalized citizens of North Macedonia {{RMacedonia-wrestling-bio-stub