Gogi Koguashvili
Gogi Murmanowitsch Koguaschwili (Russian Гоги Мурманович Когуашвили; Georgian გოგი კოღუაშვილი, Kogi Koghuaschwili; born April 26, 1969 in Kutaisi ) is a former Soviet and Russian wrestler.
Career
Gogi Koguaschwili grew up in Georgia, which had developed after the Second World War to a Ringer stronghold, where she started in 1982 with the rings. Already as a teenager he dominated the senior exclusively in the Greco-Roman style, in his age group in the Soviet Union. In 1987, he won a 18 -year-old athlete's Junior European Championship in Katowice in the class to 88 kg body weight. In 1989, he won the Junior World Championship ( espoir, ie up to the age of 20 years ) in Budapest in the light heavyweight division.
1990 Koguaschwili joined the army and was transferred to the Central Sports Club of the Army CSKA Moscow, where Viktor Mamiaschwili his coach was. In the senior he proved himself in the World Cup tournament in 1991 in Thessaloniki, which he won. At the Grand Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, he finished 2nd place. In the final he defeated there Maik Bull man from Goldbach. Since he prevailed in the Soviet elimination rounds, he was sent to the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. He won the bronze medal there, but without the Mike Bull man, the Olympic champion was to take, as he had taken a defeat against Hakkı Başar from Turkey in the preliminary round.
At the European Championships 1993 in Istanbul Gogi Koguaschwili lost the same in the first round against Hakkı Başar and retired prematurely. All the better, he made it at the World Championships the same year in Stockholm. Here he defeated in the final for the first time Maik Bull man and became world champion. In the next few years there was the duel against Koguaschwili Bull man more often and always Koguaschwili prevailed.
In 1994, it ran exactly as the year before. At the European Championships in the spring in Athens Koguaschwili resigned after a defeat in the first round and finished only 19th place. At the World Championships in Tampere, however, he won his second world title. He defeated on the way back Maik Bull man and Oleinik in the finals Vyacheslav from Ukraine, who would become one of its main competitors in the next few years.
In 1995 Koguaschwili won his first European title. In Besançon, he defeated in the final again Maik Bull man just 4-3 after extra points. In Prague, he lost in the fall of 1995, surprisingly, the battle for the next world title. He succumbed to the Yugoslavs Goran Kasum and reached only the fight for the bronze medal, which he won against the Cuban Reinaldo Pena. World Champion was Hakkı Başar.
In 1996, he wins again at the European Championships in Budapest in front of his old competitors Maik Bull man and Vyacheslav Oleinik. A good omen for the Olympics of the same year? No, because in Atlanta, he lost against the Hungarian Nandor Gelenesi and had to retire prematurely. It remained for him only the 13th Place. Olympic champion Oleinik.
In 1997, a new weight class division came into force. Gogi Koguaschwili launched further in the light heavyweight class, but now had their limit at 97 kg. He focused in the years 1997, 1998 and 1999 all over the World Championships and won in these years his world title No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 in 1997 in Breslau he edged the double Olympic champion in the heavyweight Andrzej Wronski from Poland, who had abtrainiert in the new weight class and in the final Anatoly Fedorenko from Ukraine. In 1998 he defeated in the final of the Czechs Marek Švec and 1999 he won in Athens in front of the three world champions and Olympic medalists past years Andrzej Wronski, Mikael Ljungberg and Hakkı Başar.
Koguaschwili was at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney again as a big favorite. However, nothing was out of the Olympic victory. He was defeated in the preliminary round of the American Garret Lowney and finished only 12th place.
Gogi Koguaschwili ranking then up to the Olympic Games 2004., But he won only one major title, the European champions, 2002 in Seinäjoki / Finland. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, he failed in the quarterfinals of the 14 years younger Rama Nosadse from Georgia. It was an honorable 6th place for him.
Gogi Koguaschwili was with five World Cup titles and three European Cup titles certainly one of the most successful wrestlers in the world in Greco- Roman style. But with four Olympic Games, he won only one bronze medal. It remains puzzling why he failed again and again in the Olympics with his undoubted ability. He is now employed as an instructor in the Russian Wrestling Federation.
Gogi Koguaschwili ended after the 2004 Olympics Ringer his career in which he worked in the German Bundesliga for a few years. He completed a coach training and is now, in 2008, head coach of the Russian national team wrestler. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in September 2007 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Gr = Greek and Roman. Styles, Hs = light heavyweight, and 1996 up to 90 kg body weight in 1997 up to 2000 up 97 kg body weight and from 2001-96 kg body weight)
Swell
- International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
- Various issues of trade magazine The wrestler 1987-2005
- Www.sport- komplett.de