Vakhtang Blagidze
Vakhtang Blagidse (Georgian ვახტანგ ბლაგიძე; born July 23, 1954 in Tschotschchati at Lantschchuti, Guria ) is a former Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1980 in Moscow and multiple world and European champion in wrestling in the Greco-Roman flyweight.
Career
Vakhtang Blagidse comes from Georgia. He started as a teenager with rings and has been delegated by the first major successes in the field of youth wrestlers center Tbilisi. In 1977, he at the age of only 20 years of victory at the Soviet Championship succeeded flyweight. Since then, he belonged to the Soviet national team in Greco-Roman wrestler. Style.
In 1978 Vakhtang was also first used at an international championship, the European Championships in Oslo. He won there in superior style with six wins the European title. Among the defeated wrestlers from him were, inter alia, Rolf Krauss from Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Lajos Rácz from Hungary and Nicu Ganga from Romania. In the same year he also won the World Championship in Mexico City flyweight. Again, he scored the decisive victories over Rolf Krauss and Nicu Ganga.
At the national level Vakhtang realized in the years 1978 and 1979, that it was easier to become world champion, as to place themselves at the Soviet Championships in front of the field. He succeeded in either year, being placed among the first three winners of this championship. The consequence of this was that it was used in 1979 when no international championships.
But in 1980 he dominated again at the Soviet Championship. He then went in the European Championship, which was held in Prievidza, at the start and won again with six wins the European title. Then were the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 to highlight the career of Vakhtang Blagidse. There he won by a certain victory for victory over Lajos Racz deserved the gold medal.
In 1981 WWarning just launched at the World Championships in Oslo. Due to a lucky draw gave him doing three wins to re winning the world title.
Vakhtang Blagidse launched at five major international championships. In all these championships he won first place. He played it a total of 26 fights, of which he won.
From 1982, he was then in no international championships at the start.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, Fl = Flyweight, Ba = bantamweight, then 52 kg and 57 kg body weight)