Valeriy Andriytsev
Personal information | |
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Full name | Valerii Andriitsev |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Born | Kozelets, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | February 27, 1987
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
Weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
Sport | |
Sport | Wrestling |
Event(s) | Freestyle |
Club | Dynamo |
Medal record | |
Updated on 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. 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. 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.
- 1987 births
- Sportspeople from Kyiv
- Living people
- Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Ukrainian male sport wrestlers
- Olympic wrestlers of Ukraine
- Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- European Games bronze medalists for Ukraine
- Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games
- European Games medalists in wrestling
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- European Wrestling Championships medalists
- Ukrainian martial arts biography stubs