Magomedgasan Abushev

{{Short description|Soviet wrestler}}

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|caption=Abushev in 2020

|birth_date= {{birth date and age|1959|11|10|df=y}}

|birth_place= Karabudakhkent, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

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| height = 170 cm

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|sport=Freestyle wrestling

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|club= Dynamo Makhachkala

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{{MedalCountry | the {{URS}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

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{{MedalGold| 1980 Moscow |62 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|European championships}}

{{MedalGold| 1980 Prievidza |62 kg}}

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Magomedgasan Mingazhutdinovich Abushev ({{Langx|kum|Muhammadhasan Abuş}}; 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418110910/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ab/magomedgasan-abushev-1.html Magomedgasan Abushev]. sports-reference.com

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.