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| Born | (1959-11-10)10 November 1959 (age 66) Karabudakhkent, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle wrestling | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Makhachkala | |||||||||||||||||
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Magomedgasan Mingazhutdinovich Abushev (Kumyk:Muhammadhasan Abuş; born 10 November 1959) is aKumyk retired featherweight freestyle wrestler fromDagestan. Competing for theSoviet Union he won gold medals at the 1980 Olympics and 1980 European Championships.[1]
Abushev took up wrestling in 1971, and won world junior titles in 1977 (flyweight) and 1979 (featherweight). He won his only Soviet title in 1984 as a lightweight. Earlier in 1981 he graduated in economics from the Dagestan State University and after retiring from wrestling became a businessman in Dagestan. From 1994 to 1998 he worked at theDerbent Oil Depot, and in 1998–2003 was the deputy head of thecognac-producing company Dagvino. In 2003 he became anauditor of the Accounts Chamber of Dagestan.[1]
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