Zaurbek Sokhiev (born June 1, 1986 in

Tajik SSR The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic,, ''Çumhuriji Şūraviji Sotsialistiji Toçikiston''; russian: Таджикская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...

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) is a Russian- Ossetian male freestyle wrestler, who represented

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

, a freestyle wrestling world champion (2009), a participant in the

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(2008) and

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(2012). Master of sports of international class in freestyle wrestling.

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* Living people 1986 births Uzbekistani male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of Uzbekistan Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 2006 Asian Games World Wrestling Championships medalists Asian Games silver medalists for Uzbekistan Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Uzbekistani people of Ossetian descent Tajikistani people of Ossetian descent Asian Wrestling Championships medalists {{Uzbekistan-wrestling-bio-stub