Vitaliy Rahimov

Who is Vitaliy Rahimov?

Vitaliy Rahimov is an Azerbaijani athlete.

Rahimov moved with his family to Azerbaijan in 1990. He has been trained in Greco-Roman wrestling since 1994. He made the Azerbaijani Olympic teams in 2004 and 2008. In the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Rahimov beat Jim Gruenwald of the United States but was later defeated by the Serbian Davor Stefanek.

In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Rahimov reached the final having beaten Sheng Jiang, Eusebiu Diaconu, Armen Nazaryan, and Nurbakyt Tengizbayev but lost to Islam-Beka Albiev from Russia.