List of Famous people with last name Andiyev

Soslan Andiyev

First Name Soslan

Last Name Andiyev

Born on April 21, 1952

Died on November 22, 2018 (aged 66)

Born in Russia, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

Height 198 cm | 6'6

Soslan Petrovich Andiyev was a Soviet heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He was an Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980, world champion in 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1978, European champion in 1974, 1975 and 1982, and Soviet champion in 1973–78 and 1980. He won the World Cup in 1976 and 1981, but missed the 1984 Olympics due to their boycott by the Soviet Union and retired the same year. After that he first worked as a national wrestling coach, but in 1989 returned to his native Ossetia to become a sports functionary. In 1990–98, he served as vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee. In 2006 he was inducted into the FILA Wrestling Hall of Fame.

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