Givi Kartozia

Givi Alexandrovich Kartosia (Georgian გივი კარტოზია; born March 29, 1929 in Nakalakewi, Adjara, † April 3, 1998 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union. He was world champion in wrestling in 1953, 1955 and 1958. 1956 he won the Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman. Style at middleweight.

Career

He grew up in a small town near Tbilisi. There he also began with the rings. In Georgia, a wrestler scene had established itself in the 1930s that soon the Soviet co-determined peak in freestyle wrestling. Arsenic Mekokischwili, Dawit Tschimakuridse and Konstantin Koberidse be mentioned here. Kartosia made ​​such good progress that he was in the late 1940s the club Iskra Tbilisi, which was later renamed Burewestnik Tbilisi, delegated.

After Nikolai Belov, in the middleweight class in the Greco- Roman style dominated events in the Soviet Union, after the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 ended his international career, Kartosia succeeded him. He already started in 1953 at the World Championships in Naples, where she won the same the world title. In 1954 he tried his hand at the world championships in Tokyo in free style, but failed to the Turks Ismet Atli and ranking henceforth only in the Greco-Roman. Style. He achieved his greatest success in 1956 when he was Olympic champion in the middleweight division in Melbourne.

After the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he again won a medal in the light heavyweight division, he ended his international career and lived thereafter as a language teacher in Tbilisi.

The results of the Championships and some other tournaments that are played Kartosia, can be seen in the following section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greek and Roman. Style, F = Freestyle, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then to 79 kg or 87 kg body weight)

Main countries fighting

USSR Championships

Swell

  • DOCUMENTATION of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
  • Journal athletics from the years 1951 to 1960
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
Arsen Mekokishvili Berlin Finland Rune Jansson BRD (Germany) Australia Dimitar Dobrev Bulgaria Budapest Mithat Bayrak Lothar Metz East Germany Claes Johanson Edvard Westerlund Ivar Johansson Hamza Yerlikaya Aleksey Mishin (wrestler) Andrea Minguzzi Alan Khugayev List of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling
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