Bessarion Gotschashvili

Bessarion Gotschaschwili ( Georgian ბესარიონ გოჩაშვილი ; born February 26, 1983 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian wrestler . He was 2008 Olympian in Beijing and won numerous medals at the European Championships in the free style in the bantamweight .

Career

Bessarion Gotschaschwili has been wrestling since 1990 and has been trained by Nugsar Schireli ever since. He belongs to the sports club Dynamo Tbilisi . He focuses entirely on free style. The 1.67 meter tall athlete who z. Currently also lives from wrestling, starts in the lightest weight class, the bantamweight, which has a weight limit of 55 kg.

Since 1998 he has competed regularly in international championships. He has already achieved great success in the junior division. In 2000 he became vice European champion in the weight class up to 54 kg body weight in Bratislava . He achieved the same success at the European Junior Championships in 2002, where he was only defeated by the later Olympic champion Mawlet Batirow from Russia . A year earlier, in 2001, he was runner- up in the junior world champion in Tashkent . Here, too, he was only inferior in the final to a wrestler who later became a great, Dilschod Mansurow from Uzbekistan .

In the senior class, Bessarion Gotschashvili needed a long time before he could integrate into the absolute top class of freestyle wrestlers on an international level. He first came to a medal win in 2005 when he finished 3rd at the European Bantamweight Championships in Varna with a victory in the decisive fight over Francisco Javier Sanchez Parra from Spain . He won another medal at an international championship at the 2009 European Championships in Vilnius . There he fought his way to the final with victories over Wladislaus Andrejew from Belarus and Yasar Aliew from Azerbaijan , in which he was defeated by Nariman Israpilow from Russia .

In 2008, Bessarion Gotschashvili qualified to participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing with a 2nd place at the Olympic qualification tournament in Warsaw . In Beijing he won a victory over Petru Toarca from Romania , but then lost his next two fights against Henry Cejudo from the United States, who later became Olympic champion, and against Radoslaw Velikow from Bulgaria , the 2006 world champion .

In 2012, Bessarion Gotschashvili was convicted of doping and banned until June 27, 2014.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
1998	5.	World Youth Games in Moscow	up to 48 kg body weight	behind O Song Nam, North Korea , Wadim Nanijew, Russia , Jmaleddin Mirzai, Iran and Yang Yung-ho, South Korea
1999	9.	Junior European Championship in Riga	up to 50 kg body weight	Winner: Suchrab Kisijew, Russia ahead of Ghenadi Tulbea , Romania
1999	9.	Junior World Championships in Łódź	up to 50 kg body weight	Winner: Sushil Kumar , India ahead of Batraz Tidijew, Russia
2000	2.	Junior European Championship in Bratislava	up to 54 kg body weight	behind Vyacheslav Chernov, Russlan, in front of Juri Golub, Ukraine and Sahit Prizreni , Albania
2001	2.	Junior World Championships in Tashkent	up to 54 kg body weight	after victories over Jason Powell, USA , Jose Manuel Viramontes Gutierrez, Mexico , Jürgen Schlegel, Germany a . Juri Golub et al. a loss to Dilschod Mansurow , Uzbekistan
2002	7th	EM in Baku	Bantam	after a defeat against Ersin Cetin, Turkey , a victory over Amiran Kartanow , Greece a . a loss to Nazmi Alidyanov, Azerbaijan
2002	2.	Junior European Championship	up to 54 kg body weight	behind Mawlet Batirow , Russia, in front of Sahit Prizreni, Florin Buga, Romania u. Thomas Sedlmeier, Germany
2002	20th	World Cup in Tehran	Bantam	after a victory over Haibo Meng, People's Republic of China a . a loss to Oleksandr Sacharuk , Ukraine
2003	11.	EM in Riga	Bantam	after a victory over Antti Selälä, Finland a . a loss to Mawlet Batirov
2003	18th	World Cup in New York	Bantam	after a victory over Roman Kollar, Slovakia a . a loss to Amiran Kartanow
2004	13.	Olympic qualification tournament in Bratislava	Bantam	Winner: Rene Montero Salas, Cuba ahead of German Accountjew , Belarus
2004	6th	EM in Ankara	Bantam	after a defeat against Iwan Welkow Djorew , Bulgaria a . a victory over Alexei Kosaryev, Belarus
2005	3.	EM in Varna	Bantam	after a victory over Geworg Markarjan, Ukraine, a defeat against Radoslaw Velikow , Bulgaria a. a win over Francisco Javier Sanchez Parra, Spain
2006	10.	EM in Moscow	Bantam	after a victory over Marcel Ewald , Germany a. a loss to Jamal Otarsultanov , Russia
2006	28.	World Cup in Guangzhou	Bantam	after losing to Namig Abdullaev, Azerbaijan
2007	5.	EM in Sofia	Bantam	after victories over Fabio Coscino, Italy a . Francisco Javier Sanchez Parra and defeats to Bessik Kuduchow , Russia and Radoslaw Velikow
2008	15th	EM in Tampere	Bantam	after a loss to Radoslaw Velikow
2008	2.	Olympic qualification tournament in Warsaw	Bantam	behind Yang Kyong-il , North Korea , in front of Ramil Rejebow, Turkmenistan a . Petru Toarca
2008	8th.	OS in Beijing	Bantam	after a victory over Petru Toarca u. Defeats against Henry Cejudo , USA a. Radoslav Velikov
2009	3.	Ukrainian-Memorial-International in Kiev	Bantam	behind Mykola Aiwazan u. Sergei Rauschnijow, bde. Ukraine
2009	2.	Dan Kolov Tournament in Sofia	Bantam	behind Tomohiro Matsunaga , Japan, in front of Ramazan Demir, Turkey a. Gerguiga Anoha, France
2009	2.	EM in Vilnius	Bantam	after victories over Vladislav Andreev, Belarus a. Yasar Aliew, Azerbaijan a. a loss to Nariman Israpilov , Russia
2009	23.	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	Bantam	after losing to Mykola Aiwazan, Ukraine
2010	5.	Golden Grand Prix in Tbilisi	Bantam	behind Ghenadie Tulbea, Monaco , Namig Sewdinzadeh, Azerbaijan, Rahul Balasaheb Aware, India u. Yuri Ledenew , Ukraine
2010	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	Bantam	behind Shinichi Yumoto, Japan u. Nariman Israpilov
2010	14th	World Cup in Moscow	Bantam	after a victory over Mude Qi, People's Republic of China a . a loss to Hassan Rahimi, Iran

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Bantam weight, weight class up to 55 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Fight of Bessarion Gotschaschwili (red) against Wladislaw Andrejew at the European Championship 2009