Vugar Hamidullovych Rahimov (also ''Vyugar Ragymov'', uk, Вьюгар Гамидуллович Рагімов; born February 5, 1986, in
Baku
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,
Azerbaijan SSR
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) is a Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler of
Azerbaijani descent, who played for the men's featherweight category.
He captured a silver medal for his division at the
2011 European Wrestling Championships
The 2011 FILA European Wrestling Championships were held in Dortmund, Germany, from 29 March to 3 April 2011.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle
External linksOfficial website
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in
Dortmund, Germany, losing out to Armenia's
Roman Amoyan. Ragymov is currently a member of the wrestling team for Metallurg Zaporzhye in his current residence
Zaporizhia, and is coached and trained by Evgeny Chertkov.
[
Rakhimov represented ]Ukraine
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at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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in London
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, where he competed for the men's 55 kg class. He lost the qualifying round match to China's Li Shujin, with a three-set technical score (0–4, 2–0, 0–2), and a classification point score of 1–3.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
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1986 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers for Ukraine
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Baku
Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia
Ukrainian male sport wrestlers
Azerbaijani emigrants to Ukraine
Ukrainian people of Azerbaijani descent
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