Awtandil Koridze

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Awtandil Koridse medal table

Wrestler

Russia
Olympic games
gold 1960 Rome Light
World Championship
gold 1961 Yokohama Light

Awtandil Koridze ( Georgian ავთანდილ ქორიძე ; born April 15, 1935 in Tbilisi , † April 11, 1966 in Terdschola , Imeretia ) was a Soviet wrestler of Georgian descent. He was an Olympic champion in 1960 in the lightweight, Greco-Roman style.

Career

Awtandil Koridze began wrestling as a teenager in Tbilisi. He quickly developed into an excellent wrestler in Greco-Roman. Style. In 1957 he finished second in the Soviet championship in the lightweight category behind Nikolai Rosin and ahead of Fedor Jowitsch, and in the same year he won the lightweight tournament at the III. International sports games in Moscow . In 1958, he took 3rd place in the Soviet championship behind Viktor Wasin and Ivan Korschunow. At the major international tournament in Split in 1959 , where the entire world elite competed, Awtandil won the lightweight ahead of Rıza Doğan from Turkey and Imre Polyák from Hungary .

In 1960 he finished second in the Soviet lightweight championship behind Ivan Korschunow, but was still nominated for the Olympic Games in Rome . Awtandil Koridse justified this trust, because he became the lightweight Olympic champion with five wins and one draw against the 1956 Olympic champion Kyösti Lehtonen from Finland .

On November 1, 1960 he won in Kiev in an international match against the Federal Republic of Germany over Gottlieb Neumair from Munich- Neuaubing on points.

In 1961 he added the world champion title to the Olympic victory in Yokohama . Four victories were enough for him.

Awtandil Koridze was no longer at the start at other international championships. He devoted himself to his sports teacher studies and was then a trainer in Tbilisi. In 1966, he and his fellow wrestler Roman Dsneladze died in a traffic accident in their own car while driving to training.

International success

year space competition Weight class Results
1957 1. III. Intern. Sports games in Moscow Light before Rauhala, Finland a . Argyrov, Bulgaria
1959 1. Intern. Tournament in Split Light before Rıza Doğan , Turkey , Imre Polyák , Hungary , Branislav Martinović , Yugoslavia , Gheorghe, Romania a. Edmund Seger , FRG
1960 gold OS in Rome Light with victories over Mario De Silva, Italy , Benjamin Northrup, USA , Dimitar Stojanow, Bulgaria, Branko Martinović u. Anastasios Moissidis, Greece and a tie against Kyösti Lehtonen , Finland
1961 1. World Cup in Yokohama Light with victories over Joseph Talewongso, Indonesia , Adolf Franke , GDR , Benjamin Northrup and Branko Martinović

Soviet championships

year space Weight class Results
1957 2. Light behind Nikolai Rosin, in front of Fedor Jowitsch
1958 3. Light behind Viktor Wasin and Ivan Korschunow
1960 2. Light behind Ivan Korschunow, in front of Vitaly Schitejew
Explanations
  • all competitions in Greco-Roman style
  • OS = Olympic Games
  • Lightweight, back then up to 68 kg body weight

literature

  • various issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from the years 1957 to 1961,
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships 1896 to 1976, 1976,
  • 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Association, Athletik-Verlag Karlsruhe, 1972

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personal data
SURNAME Koridse, Awtandil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koridze, Avtandil Georgiyevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Georgian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1966
Place of death Terdschola , Imereti