Vitaliy Rahimov (born 27 August 1984, Meghri

Meghri

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, Armenian SSR

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) is an Azerbaijan

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i athlete.

Rahimov moved with his family to Azerbaijan in 1990. He has been trained in Greco-Roman wrestling

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 since 1994. He made the Azerbaijani Olympic teams in 2004

2004 Summer Olympics

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 and 2008

2008 Summer Olympics

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. In the 2004 Olympics in Athens

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, Rahimov beat Jim Gruenwald of the United States

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 (7-0) but was later defeated by the Serbia

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n Davor Stefanek.

In the 2008 Beijing

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 Olympics, Rahimov successfully reached the final having beaten Sheng Jiang

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 (China

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), Eusebiu Diaconu (Romania

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), Armen Nazarian

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 (Bulgaria

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), and Nurbakyt Tengizbayev

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 (Turkmenistan

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) but lost to Islam-Beka Albiev from Russia

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.