Vugar Nariman oglu Orujov ( az, Vüqar Nəriman oğlu Orucov, russian: Оруджев Вугар Нариман оглы, born 26 October 1971 in

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) is a Russian two-time freestyle wrestling world champion and an Olympic bronze medalist of

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i heritage. He competed in both the

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, where he competed for the Unified Team, and the

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, taking third and fourth respectively. He is currently a head coach at

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, New York. He has three sons. His middle son,

Vitali Arujau Vitali Orujov (russian: Виталий Оруджов; born June 1, 1999) is an American freestyle and folkstyle wrestler who competes at 61 kilograms. In freestyle, he is the reigning World Champion at 61kg, as well as a two-time Pan-American ...

, represents

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and won the

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at 133 lb and gold at the

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at 61kg, joining his father as a world champion.

References

External links

Profile at DatabaseOlympics

Profile at FILA Wrestling Database
1971 births Living people Sportspeople from Baku Soviet male sport wrestlers Azerbaijani emigrants to Russia Belarusian people of Azerbaijani descent Belarusian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for the Unified Team Olympic wrestlers for Russia Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Russian male sport wrestlers Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team American wrestling coaches Olympic medalists in wrestling World Wrestling Championships medalists Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics European Wrestling Championships medalists {{Russia-wrestling-bio-stub