Dawit Gotschajewitsch Tschakwetadze

Dawit Chakwetadze, 2015

Dawit Tschakwetadze medal table
Wrestler
Russia
Olympic games
gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro	up to 85 kg
European Games
gold	2015 Baku	up to 85 kg
Junior World Championships
silver	2009 Zrenjanin	up to 85 kg

Dawit Gotschajewitsch Tschakwetadze ( Russian Давит Гочаевич Чакветадзе ; Georgian დავით ჩაკვეტაძე ; born October 18, 1992 in Kutaisi , Prov. Imereti , Georgia) is a Russian wrestler of Georgian descent. In 2016 he became Olympic champion in the Greco-Roman style in the weight class up to 85 kg body weight.

Career

Dawit Chakvetadze began wrestling as a teenager in Georgia. He focuses on the Greco-Roman style. The strong 1.85 meter tall athlete starts in the weight class up to 85 kg body weight. His first coach was Levan Kesewadze.

Internationally, he started out for Georgia. In 2009 he took 2nd place at the Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Zrenjanin in the weight class up to 85 kg behind Serkan Aydemir from Turkey. In 2011 he finished 5th in the European Junior Championship (Juniors), which took place again in Zrenjanin, in the weight class up to 84 kg.

Then Dawit Chakwetadze moved to the Russian Wrestling Association. He is now starting for MGFSO Moscow and is being trained by Gogi Koguaschwili and EK Sadichanow. In 2015 he became Russian champion in his weight class and qualified for a start at the 1st European Games in Baku. There he won over Amer Hrustanovic , Austria , Ramsin Azizsir , Germany , Nenad Žugaj , Croatia and Dschan Belenjuk , Belarus, and was thus European champion. It was also used at the World Championships in Las Vegas in September 2015 . After victories over Maksim Manukjan , Armenia and Dorin Constantin Pirvan from Romania, however, he lost in the quarterfinals against Saman Ahmed Tahmasebi from Azerbaijan . Since Tahmasebi then did not reach the final, Dawit Tschakwetadze was eliminated and only came in 10th place.

In 2016 he was again Russian champion in the weight class up to 85 kg in front of old master Alexei Mishin . It was then also launched at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In Rio he was in top form and became Olympic champion with victories over Saman Ahmed Tahmasebi, Habibollah Jomeh Akhlagi , Iran, Denis Kudla , Germany, Viktor Lőrincz , Hungary and Dschan Belenjuk.

In January 2017, Dawit Chakwetadze also won the well-attended “Ivan Poddubny” memorial in Moscow ahead of Robert Kobliashvili , Georgia. At the European Championships 2017 in Novi Sad, he was surprisingly eliminated in the first round after a defeat against Dejan Franjkovic from Serbia and only came in 11th place. He was in better shape at the 2017 World Cup in Paris , defeating Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Othman Saad, Egypt, Kristoffer Zakarias Berg, Sweden and Asamat Kustubajew from Kazakhstan. In his semi-final fight against Metehan Başar from Turkey, however, he was handicapped by a knee injury. He lost this fight by 2-4 points. Due to this injury he could not compete for one of the bronze medals against Robert Kobliaschwili and came in 5th place.

In August 2018, Dawit Tschakwetadze took second place behind Bechan Osdojew in the Russian championship in the weight class up to 87 kg. At the European Championships and the World Championships this year he was not used. But he won in advanced tournaments in Sassari and Kragujevac.

At the Russian championship, which took place on January 19, 2019, he won the third Russian championship title. He won ahead of Sosruko Kodzokow and Bechan Osdojew.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2009	2.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Zrenjanin	up to 85 kg	behind Serkan Aydemir, Turkey
2011	5.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Zrenjanin	up to 84 kg	Winner: Dschan Belenyuk, Belarus ahead of Ramsin Azizsir, Germany
2013	2.	“Oleg Karavaev” Memorial in Minsk	up to 84 kg	behind Asamat Bikbajew, Russia, in front of Jawid Gamsatow, Belarus and Vladimir Gegeschidze, Georgia
2015	1.	1. European Games in Baku	up to 85 kg	after victories over Amer Hrustanovic, Austria, Ramsin Azizsir, Nenad Zugaj, Croatia and Dschan Belenjuk
2015	10.	World Cup in Las Vegas	up to 85 kg	after victories over Maksim Manukjan, Armenia and Dorin Constantin Pirvan, Romania and a defeat against Saman Ahmed Tahmasebi, Azerbaijan
2016	gold	OS in Rio de Janeiro	up to 85 kg	after victories over Saman Ahmed Tahmasebi, Habibollah Jomeh Akhlagi, Iran, Denis Kudla, Germany, Viktor Lőrincz , Hungary and Dschan Belenjuk
2017	1.	“Ivan Poddubny” Memorial in Moscow	up to 85 kg	before Robert Kobliaschwili, Georgia, Ruslan Yusupow and Evgeni Salejew , both Russia
2017	11.	EM in Novi Sad	up to 85 kg	after losing to Dejan Franjkovic, Serbia
2017	2.	"Wladyslaw Pytlasinski" tournament in Warsaw	up to 85 kg	behind Viktor Lőrincz, in front of Asamat Kustubajew, Kazakhstan and Robert Kobliaschwili
2017	5.	World Cup in Paris	up to 85 kg	after victories over Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Othman Saad, Egypt, Kristoffer Zakarias Berg, Sweden and Asamat Kustubajew and defeats against Metehan Başar , Turkey and Robert Kobliaschwili (without a fight)
2018	1.	City of Sassari Tournament	up to 87 kg	in front of Vlas Dubrowin, Russia and Fabio Parisi, Italy
2018	1.	"Ljubomir Ivanovic Gedza" -International in Kragujevac	up to 87 kg	before Dariusz Vitek and bertalan Papp, both Hungary and Nikolai Dobrew, Serbia

Russian championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
2015	1.	up to 85 kg	before Alexei Mishin
2016	1.	up to 85 kg	before Alexej Mischin, Asamat Bikbajew and Sosruko Kodzokow
2018	2.	up to 87 kg	behind Bechan Osdojew , in front of Ilya Nikiforow and Gamsat Jusupow
2019	1.	up to 87 kg	before Sasruko Kodzokow, Bechan Osdojew and Alan Ostajew

Explanations:

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Dawit Gotschajewitsch Tschakwetadze at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Dawit Gotschajewitsch Tschakwetadze in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Dawit Chakwetadze on the website of the Russian Wrestling Association