Arif Yadulla Abdullayev ( az, Arif Abdullayev; born 28 August 1968, Baku,

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) is an

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. Abdullayev gained gold medal at the

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for

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organized in

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.World Champion for Freestyle Wrestling- Arif Abdullayev

References

1968 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Azerbaijan Sportspeople from Baku Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Azerbaijani male sport wrestlers World Wrestling Champions European Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century Azerbaijani people 21st-century Azerbaijani people {{Azerbaijan-wrestling-bio-stub