Fullname: | Valerii Andriitsev |
Nationality: | Ukrainian |
Birth Date: | 27 February 1987 |
Birth Place: | Kozelets, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 6feet |
Weight: | 225lb |
Sport: | Wrestling |
Event: | Freestyle |
Club: | Dynamo |
Updated: | September 7, 2012 |
Valerii Oleksandrovych Andriitsev (Ukrainian: Валерій Олександрович Андрійцев; born 27 February 1987 in Kozelets) is a male freestyle wrestler from Ukraine. He won the silver medal in the Men's freestyle 96 kg at 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the silver in the 2012 European Wrestling Championships.[1] [2] [3] At the 2014 World Wrestling Championships he took the bronze medal after winning a rematch against American Jake Varner, who beat him in the gold medal match at the 2012 Olympics.[4] [5] In June 2015, he earned bronze at the inaugural European Games for Ukraine in wrestling, more specifically, in the men's freestyle in the - 97 kg division.[6]