Aleksandr Doxturishvili

Aleksandr Doxturishvili ( Georgian ალექსანდრე დოხტურიშვილი , Aleksandre Dochturishvili ; born May 22, 1980 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR ) is an Uzbek wrestler . He is a professional wrestler and Olympic champion of 2004 , he is 1.68 meters tall and wrestling in Greco-Roman style. His hometown club is the Trade Union Sports Tashkent . He started for Georgia until 2001 and since then for Uzbekistan .

Life

In 1997 Doxturishvili first took part in an important championship one month after his 17th birthday. At the European Junior Championships in Istanbul , he finished 8th in the class under 65 kg. In the same year he started in Turku, Finland at the Junior World Championships; he finished fifteenth after losing to Iranian Ali Zabihi in the first round. Finally he won his fights in round 2 and 3 and only had to admit defeat to the later last Yudermis Rivera from Cuba in the fourth round and was eliminated.

In 1998 he started again at the European Junior Championships. In Tirana , he took eleventh place. A good month later, he entered the world championships in Cairo , he finished eighth.

Also in 1999 he started in both competitions, but his weight class had changed; he was now in the class under 69 kilograms. This seemed to suit him better, at the European Championships in Budapest he finished third, behind Gábor Koleszcar from Hungary and the French Aurélien Bozonet . He also competed in the weight class up to 69 kg at the Junior World Championships. In Bucharest he was also third, behind the winner Max Schwindt from Germany and Parviz Zaidvad from Iran.

At the European Junior Championships in Sofia in 2000 he took first place, at the World Championships in July 2000 in Nantes , however, after he celebrated three wins in a row, after a 2-0 defeat against Youry Vitt from Uzbekistan, it was only for place seven. It was his last competition as a junior.

In 2001 he became European champion in the class up to 69 kilograms in Istanbul. He was able to win his fights against Max Schwindt, Jimmy Samuelsson from Sweden and the Russian Martin Iwatschenko all "to zero". He did not travel to the world championships in Patras , Greece as an outsider , but surprisingly he was only 18th.

In 2003 he started for Uzbekistan only at the Asian Cup, where he took first place in his new weight class under 74 kg. His goal was the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens . In qualifying for this competition in Novi Sad , he was second behind Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera from Cuba.

As the Asian champion, he came to Athens in August with great self-confidence. In the first round he was able to defeat the Hungarian Tamas Berzicza . In the second fight he defeated Vüqar Aslanov from Azerbaijan. In the third round he won against the Greek Alexios Kolitsopoulos 8: 4. He was now seeded for the 5th round, where he met the strong Warteres Samurgaschew from Russia. Alexander Dokturishvili won 5-2 and was seeded for the 8th round. There his opponent was Marko Yli-Hannuksela . The Finn lost 4-1 and Dokturischwili was Olympic champion.

Since the Olympic success he has not been able to catch up all the way to the top; at the 2005 World Championships in Budapest he was only seventh. He was able to defeat Thomas Dantzler from the USA and Wassili Radyiba from Ukraine, but Konstantin Schneider from Germany was too strong for him.

At the 2006 World Championships in Guangzhou , the new breakthrough did not come. He finished eleventh. In December 2006 he finished fifth at the Asian Games , after two wins and two losses.

successes

Junior

• European Champion 2000
• Third World Cup in 1999
• Third European Championship in 1999

• European Champion 2001
• Winner Asian Cup 2003
• Asian champion 2004
• Olympic champion 2004

As an adult, Aleksandr Doxturishvili participated once in the Olympic Games, three times in the World Championships and once in the European Championships, as well as once in the Asian Championships and once in the Asian Games.

Web links

• Profile of Aleksandr Doxturishvili at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Aleksandr Doxturishvili in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )