Tamerlan Tagziev

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|birth_place = Beslan, Russia

|residence = Toronto, Ontario

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Tamerlan Tagziev (born September 25, 1981){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140803010844/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/wrestling/1063233/t_tagziev.html Glasgow 2014 profile]}} is an Ossetian wrestler competing for Canada.

Career

Tagziev moved to Canada in 2009 and became a citizen in the same year. He won a gold medal in the 86 kg freestyle at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.{{cite news |date=31 July 2014 |title=Canada wins 2 more wrestling golds at Commonwealth Games|url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/commonwealthgames/news/canada-wins-2-more-wrestling-golds-at-commonwealth-games-1.2724056 |newspaper=CBC Sports |access-date=31 July 2014 }} He was given a four-year ban after testing positive for meldonium on 29 August 2016.[http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/canadian-wrestler-doping-ban-1.3740282 Canadian wrestler given 4-year ban for doping violation]