Magomedgasan Abushev

Wrestler

마고메트가산 아부셰프

Born

10 November 1959, Karabudakhkent

Citizenship

Soviet Union

Sport

amateur wrestling, freestyle wrestling

Occupation

amateur wrestler

Height

170 cm (5 ft 7 in)

Weight

62 kg (137 lb)

Team / club

Dynamo Sports Club

Magomedgasan Mingazhutdinovich Abushev (Kumyk: Muhammadhasan Abuş; born 10 November 1959) is a Kumyk retired featherweight freestyle wrestler from Dagestan. Competing for the Soviet Union he won gold medals at the 1980 Olympics and 1980 European Championships.

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 the Derbent Oil Depot, and in 1998–2003 was the deputy head of the cognac-producing company Dagvino. In 2003 he became an auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Dagestan.

Competitions

Awards and honours

• Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
• Order of the Badge of Honour

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q2499292 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.