Vitali Arujau

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 61 kg/134.5 pounds

Years on Team USA: 5 (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26) 

Residence: Ithaca, N.Y.

Regional Training Center: Spartan Combat RTC 

Club: Titan Mercury WC

High School: Syosset, N.Y. (Syosset High School)

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 U20 Worlds (Silver at 57 kg), 2016 U17 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

2025: Silver medalist at Waclaw Ziolkowski Memorial in Warsaw, Poland … Final X runner-up

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 … Placed 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

2019: U20 World Championships silver medalist in Tallin, Estonia … Fourth at Marine Corps U.S. Open … Third at Senior Nationals … Junior Men’s freestyle World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion

2018: Fourth in Junior freestyle at Marine Corps U.S. Open … Junior Freestyle World Team Trials Challenge Tournament runner-up … UWW U23 Freestyle Nationals champion

2017: U.S. Open Junior Freestyle runner-up … Junior World Team Trials runner-up

2016: Silver medalist at U17 World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia … UWW Cadet Freestyle Nationals champion

College: Graduated from Cornell University in 2024 … Two-time NCAA Division I National champion for Cornell … Named 2024 EIWA Wrestler of the Year … 2024 EIWA tournament runner-up … Named Most Outstanding Wrestler at the 2023 NCAA Division I 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

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2015 USA Wrestling Cadet Freestyle Nationals champion … Earned true second at 2015 UWW cadet and University Nationals … 2015 Phil Portuese Northeast Regional runner-up … 2014 USA Wrestling Cadet Freestyle Nationals bronze medalist … Placed fourth at 2014 Cadet Nationals

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

Instagram: @varujau_lgr

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