Birth Date: | 10 November 1959 |
Birth Place: | Karabudakhkent, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 170 cm |
Sport: | Freestyle wrestling |
Club: | Dynamo Makhachkala |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Magomedgasan Mingazhutdinovich Abushev (; 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.[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 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.[1]