Dawit Gobedschishvili

Dawit Gobedschischwili ( Georgian დავით გობეჯიშვილი , Russian Гобеджишвили, Давид Николаевич , Dawid Nikolayevich Gobedschischwili ; * 3. January 1963 in Kutaisi ) is a former Georgian wrestler for the Soviet Union and the CIS launched.

Career

Dawit Gobedschishvili grew up in Georgia and started wrestling at the age of 16. After initial success, the talent, who had grown to a full-grown super heavyweight of 110 kg at a height of two meters, was delegated to the Dinamo Tbilisi sports club . There he was trained by Guliko Sagaradse and Aleksandre Maissuradse , both former world class wrestlers themselves. He wrestled exclusively in free style. At the age of 22, he began his international wrestling career at the 1985 European Championships in Leipzig . In Leipzig he immediately won the European super heavyweight title. In the final battle, he defeated the Bulgarian Atanas Atanassow with 3: 1 points. In his pool he had previously defeated Andreas Schröder from Jena with 3-0 points. He also triumphed in the super heavyweight division at the world championships in Budapest that same year . One of the defeated here was the 1984 Olympic champion Bruce Baumgartner from the USA , who was to become his main competitor in the next few years.

In 1986 Dawit was only used at the World Cup , which was again held in Budapest. In the final he faced Bruce Baumgartner again, against whom he lost on points this time. In 1987 he did not compete in any international championships. The titles went to the Soviet Union anyway, as Sasa Turmanidze won the European Championships and Aslan Chadarzew won the World Championships .

Aslan Chadarzew also started at the European Championships in 1988. At the Olympic Games in Seoul he was used again and was Olympic champion ahead of his long-term competitors Bruce Baumgartner and Andreas Schröder .

In 1989, his Ossetian rival Aslan Chadarzew represented the Soviet Union again at the international championships. At the 1990 World Cup in Tokyo , Gobedishvili again won the world title. In the final he defeated Bruce Baumgartner just on points.

In 1991 David was not in any international championships. With Oleg Naniev and Gennady Schilzow, the Soviet Union used two new wrestlers, as Aslan Chadarzew had a fatal accident in 1990. Nanijew and Schilzow took 2nd place at the European and World Championships.

When the young Aljaksej Mjadswedseu as a representative of the CIS at the European Championships in Kaposvár in 1992 only came in 8th place, Dawit Gobedschishvili was again used for the Olympic Games in Barcelona . He beat Andreas Schröder just 4: 3 points in a fight in the pool, but lost in the fight for the pool victory against Bruce Baumgartner, who then became Olympic champion for the second time. In the battle for the bronze medal, he defeated Mahmut Demir from Turkey.

After these Olympics, Dawit ended his career as an active wrestler. He's now in business. He was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in August 2016 for his services to wrestling .

Competition balance (overview)

year	competition	place	space	Style	Weight class
1985	European championships	Leipzig	1	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1985	World championships	Budapest	1	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1986	World cup	Toledo	2	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1986	World championships	Budapest	2	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1988	FILA Grand Prix	Budapest	1	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1988	World cup	Toledo	1	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1988	Olympic Summer Games	Seoul	1	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1990	World cup	Toledo	3	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1990	World championships	Tokyo	1	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1990	International tournament	Pittsburgh	2	Freestyle	Super heavyweight
1992	Olympic Summer Games	Barcelona	3	Freestyle	Super heavyweight

Soviet championships

David Gobedishvili became the Soviet free style (super heavyweight) champion in 1985, 1986 and 1988.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, SS = super heavyweight, back then up to 130 kg body weight)

• 1985, 1st place , EM in Leipzig , F, SS, with victories over Janku, Romania , Andreas Schröder , GDR , Kadirogullari, Turkey and Atanas Athanasow, Bulgaria ;
• 1985, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest , F, SS, ahead of József Balla , Hungary , Bruce Baumgartner , USA , Adam Sandurski , Poland , Andreas Schröder and Domingo Mesa, Cuba ;
• 1986, 2nd place , World Cup tournament in Toledo / USA, F, SS, behind Baumgartner and in front of Hassan El-Haddad, Egypt ;
• 1986, 2nd place , World Championships in Budapest, F, SS, behind Baumgartner and in front of Andreas Schröder, Atanassow, József Balla and Radum Vokurka, Czechoslovakia ;
• 1988, 1st place , FILA Grand Prix tournament in Budapest, F, SS, in front of Valentin Sándor and Ferenc Hajdú, bde. Hungary;
• 1988, 1st place , World Cup tournament in Toledo / USA, F, SS, ahead of Baumgartner and Andrew Renney, Australia ;
• 1988, gold medal , OS in Seoul , F, SS, ahead of Baumgartner, Schröder, László Klauz , Hungary, Atanassow and Daniel Payne, Canada ;
• 1990, 3rd place , World Cup tournament in Toledo / USA, F, SS, behind Baumgartner and Domingo Mesa and in front of Hayri Sezgin , Turkey and Payne;
• 1990, 1st place , World Championships in Tokyo , F, SS, ahead of Baumgartner, Hayri Sezgin, Turkey, Juraj Štěch, CSSR, Schröder and László Klauz;
• 1992, bronze medal , OS in Barcelona , F, SS, behind Baumgartner and Jeff Thue , Canada and in front of Mahmut Demir , Turkey, Andreas Schröder and Ali Reza Soleimani , Iran

swell

• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 05/85, 11/85, 11/86, 06/87, 09/87, 05/88, 10/88, 05/89, 08/89, 10/90, 05/91, 10/91, 05/92 and 09/92

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United World Wrestling to Induct 15 into 2016 Hall of Fame Class , accessed April 17, 2017 (English)

Web links

• Profile of Davit Gobedschishvili at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• David Gobedschischwili in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )