Career
He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men"s freestyle 84 kg division. Nurmagomedov first defeated former Olympic silver medalist Yusup Abdusalomov in the first preliminary match, with a technical score of 4–4, and a classification score of 1–3. Foreign the second preliminary match, Nurmagomedov, however, was defeated by a formidable Iranian wrestler Ehsan Lashgari, who scored a total of five points in two successive periods, while also being disqualified in the process.
