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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