Givi Kartozia
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Born | 29 March 1929 Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 3 April 1998 (aged 69) Tbilisi, Georgia |
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
Sport | |
Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling |
Club | Iskra Tbilisi Burevestnik Tbilisi |
Givi Aleksandrovich Kartozia (Georgian: გივი კარტოზია; 29 March 1929 – 3 April 1998) was a Middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1956 and a world title in 1953, 1955 and 1958.[1] Domestically he was the Soviet middleweight champion in 1952–55, and placed second in 1956 and third in 1950 and 1951. For the 1960 Olympics he moved up to the light-heavyweight class and won a bronze medal. He retired soon after the Olympics and since 1966 acted as an international wrestling referee. He died in 1998, aged 69, and starting from 2010 an annual international wrestling tournament has been held in Tbilisi in his honor.[2]
References
External links
- Givi Kartozia at the International Wrestling Database
- Givi Kartozia at Olympedia
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- 1908 Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)
- 1912 Claes Johanson (SWE)
- 1920 Carl Westergren (SWE)
- 1924 Edvard Westerlund (FIN)
- 1928 Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1932 Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1936 Ivar Johansson (SWE)
- 1948 Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1952 Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1956 Givi Kartozia (URS)
- 1960 Dimitar Dobrev (BUL)
- 1964 Branislav Simić (YUG)
- 1968 Lothar Metz (GDR)
- 1972 Csaba Hegedűs (HUN)
- 1976 Momir Petković (YUG)
- 1980 Gennady Korban (URS)
- 1984 Ion Draica (ROM)
- 1988 Mikhail Mamiashvili (URS)
- 1992 Péter Farkas (HUN)
- 1996 Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2000 Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2004 Aleksey Mishin (RUS)
- 2008 Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)
- 2012 Alan Khugaev (RUS)
- 2016 Davit Chakvetadze (RUS)
- 2020 Zhan Beleniuk (UKR)
- 1908: 73 kg
- 1912–1928: 75 kg
- 1932–1960: 79 kg
- 1964–1968: 87 kg
- 1972–1996: 82 kg
- 2000: 85 kg
- 2004–2012: 84 kg
- 2016: 85 kg
- 2020–present: 87 kg
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