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Place of Birth: Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia
About Soslan Andiyev
- Soslan Petrovich Andiyev (Russian: ?????? ???????? ??????, 21 April 1952 – 22 November 2018) was a Russian 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.Andiyev had one sister, Svetlana, and two brothers, Genady and Sergey; both were leading Soviet heavyweight freestyle wrestlers.
- Their mother was Russian and father was Ossetian.
- The senior male Andiyev was 2.18 m tall and weighed 136 kg, and was a regional wrestling champion; he died when Soslan was eight years old.
- Genady, at 18 years old, was the eldest sibling at the time; he became head of the family and later coached Soslan.
- Four years later, in 1964, he brought Soslan to the wrestling club, to continue the family tradition.
- In 1971 Genady, Sergey and Soslan placed first, second and third, respectively, at the Russian championships.In 1974 Andiyev graduated from the Vladikavkaz Agricultural University and began working on a PhD, but soon abandoned it in favor of wrestling.
- Between 1975 and 1989 he worked as a sports instructor for the Ossetian Police, which allowed him to train and compete.
- After retiring from competitions, between 1985 and 1989 he worked as a national wrestling coach.
- In 1989 he returned to Ossetia to assume the post of the Ossetian Minister of Sport.
- Andiyev was married with three daughters, Zarina (b.
- 1978), Mariya (b.
- 1980) and Lina (b.
- 1985) and son Georgy (b.
- 1992).
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