Vitali Arujau

2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 61 kg

Years on Team USA: 4 (2021-25) 

Residence: Ithaca, N.Y.

Regional Training Center: Spartan Combat RTC

Club: Titan Mercury Wrestling Club

College: Cornell

High School: Syosset, N.Y. 

Born: June 1, 1999, Gomel, Belarus 

Senior World Teams 

2024 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 61 kg), 2023 Senior Worlds (Gold at 61 kg)

Age-Group World Teams 

2022 U23 Worlds (10th at 57 kg), 2019 Junior Worlds (Silver at 57 kg), 2016 Cadet Worlds (Silver at 58 kg)

Career Highlights

• 2023 Senior World champion
• 2024 Senior World bronze medalist
• Two-time age-group World medalist
• 2023 Final X champion
• Two-time Senior Pan American champion
• Two-time Senior World Team member
• Three-time age-group World Team member

Career Biography

2024: Senior World Championships bronze medalist in Tirana, Albania…Senior World Team Trials champion…

2023: Senior World champion in Belgrade, Serbia…U.S. Open champion…Pan American Championships champion in Buenos Aires, Argentina…Final X champion… Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial bronze medalist in Budapest, Hungary…

2022: World Team Trials Challenge tournament champion…Final X runner-up…10th at U23 World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain…Poland Open bronze medalist in Warsaw, Poland…

2021: Fifth at Grand Prix de France Henri Deglane in Nice, France…U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up…Pan American Championships champion in Guatemala City, Guatemala…

2020: Senior Nationals champion…16th at Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix in Krasnoyarsk, Russia…

2019: Junior World Championships silver medalist in Tallin, Estonia…Fourth at Marine Corps U.S. Open…Third at Senior Nationals…

College: Graduated from Cornell University in 2024…Two-time NCAA DI Champion for Cornell…Named 2024 EIWA Wrestler of the Year… 2024 EIWA tournament runner-up…Named Most Outstanding Wrestler at the 2023 NCAA DI National Championships…Four-time NCAA All-American…Coached by Mike Grey…

High School: Four-time state champion for Syosset HS…Named the 2017 Intermat High School Wrestler of the Year…Five-time Suffolk County (Section XI) champion… 

Age-Group Achievements: 2019 Junior Men’s freestyle World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion…Fourth in Junior freestyle at 2018 Marine Corps U.S. Open…2018 U23 Freestyle Nationals champion…2018 Junior Freestyle World Team Trials Challenge Tournament runner-up…2017 U.S. Open Junior Freestyle runner-up…2017 Junior World Team Trials runner-up…2016 Cadet World silver medalist in Tbilisi, Georgia…

Personal: Son of Zhanna Arujava and Vougar Oroudjov…Has one older and one younger brother… His father, Vougar Orudjov was a two-time World champion and 1996 Olympic bronze medalist in freestyle wrestling for the Soviet Union…Fluent in Russian…

Awards: Named Most Outstanding Wrestler at 2023 NCAA DI National Championships…2023 Dan Hodge Trophy finalist…2024 EIWA Wrestler of the Year…

Twitter/X: @vArujau

Instagram: @varujau_lgr

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