Vadim Iosifovich Bogiyev ( rus, Вадим Иосифович Богиев; born 27 December 1970) is a Russian

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of Ossetian heritage, who earned the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games 1996 in men's

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, also he is worlds 1993 runner-up. 3x European champion.

Olympics

Bogiyev competed at the

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where he received a gold medal in

, the ''lightweight'' class."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Wrestling"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 9, 2008)

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* 1970 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Russia Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Russian male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Russia Martial artists from Moscow Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics 20th-century Russian people {{Russia-wrestling-bio-stub