Alimbeg Borisovich Bestayev (Russian: Алимбег Борисович Бестаев, 15 August 1936 – 1988) was an Ossetian lightweight freestyle wrestler.

[1][2] He also won the 1956 World Cup, pinning all five of his opponents within 20 minutes of each other's overall time spent on the mat and winning the outstanding wrestler award of the tournament, regardless of style or weight class.

Bestayev was born in South Ossetia and first trained in the Georgian style of wrestling, chidaoba.

At the Olympics, he won his first three bouts by fall but then lost to Gyula Tóth and Emam-Ali Habibi.

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