2022-23 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 61 kg/134 lbs.

Years on Team USA: 3 (2021-24)

Hometown: Syosset, N.Y.

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Regional Training Center: Spartan Combat RTC

College: Cornell

High School: Syosset, N.Y.

Born: June 1, 1999, Gomel, Belarus

Past Age-Group World Teams

2019 Junior Worlds (silver at 57 kg), 2016 Cadet Worlds (silver at 58 kg)

Career Notes

2021 Senior Pan American champion

2019 Junior World silver medalist
2020 Senior Nationals champion
2016 Cadet World silver medalist
Second at 2021 Olympic Team Trials
2019 UWW Junior World Team Trials champion

2019 U23 World Team Trials champion
2023 NCAA champion for Cornell
Four-time New York state high school champion

Career Biography

2023: Third at Imre Polak & Janos Vargo Memorial (Hungary)… Final X champion… U.S. Open champion…

2022: Third in Poland Open (Poland)… Final X runner-up… World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion...

2021: Second at Olympic Team Trials… Pan American Championships champion…

2020: Senior Nationals champion…

2019: Silver at Junior World Championships… UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… Third at Senior Nationals… Fourth in U.S. Open…

2018: U23 World Team Trials champion… Second in UWW Junior World Team Trials…. Fourth in UWW Junior Nationals…

2017: Second in UWW Junior World Team Trials… Second in UWW Junior Nationals…

2016: Second in Cadet World Championships… UWW Cadet Nationals champion…

2014: Cadet Nationals champion (Fargo)…

College: 2023 NCAA champion for Cornell at 133 pounds… Coached by Mike Grey… Third at 2022 NCAA Championships at 125 pounds… Fourth in 2019 NCAA Championships at 125 pounds.... 2022 EIWA champion and Outstanding Wrestler… Second in 2019 EIWA Championships…

High School: Four-time New York state high school champion for Syosset High School… Five-time Suffolk County (Section XI) champion…

Personal: His father, Vougar Orudjov was a two-time World champion and 1996 Olympic bronze medalist in freestyle wrestling for the Soviet Union… His father is a coach at Nassau Community College on Long Island… His older brother Nick Arujau also competed for Cornell…

Hobbies: Fluent in Russian….

Instagram: varujau_lgr

Twitter: @vArujau

Claire DiCugno

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