Dawit Gwanzeladze

Dawit Gwanzeladze ( Georgian დავით გვანცელაძე ; born March 28, 1937 in Batumi , † May 1, 1984 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet wrestler . He won the bronze medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the Greco-Roman style lightweight.

Life

Dawit Gwanzeladze grew up in Georgia and was delegated to Tbilisi after initial successes in the youth field. There he developed into a Soviet top wrestler in the Greco-Roman style. In 1960 he first drew attention to himself when he was the Soviet lightweight champion before W. Fesenko and A. Korsakow. But he has not yet made the leap to the Olympic Games in Rome this year . But he was part of a Soviet team that fought against the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow . He defeated the silver medalist from Rome welterweight Günther Maritschnigg from Witten - Annen on points.

In 1961 he wrestled twice with the Soviet team in the Federal Republic of Germany. Here he met Günther Maritschnigg twice and won both fights.

The qualification for an international championship succeeded Dawit Gwanzeladze only in 1963. He started for the Soviet Union at the world championship in Helsingborg in the lightweight. With four wins and one draw against Stevan Horvat from Yugoslavia , he came in second behind Horvat and thus won the World Cup silver medal . Among the wrestlers he defeated were Klaus Rost from Witten , who won the world championship bronze medal , and Eckhard Schulz from Rostock .

1964 Dawit Gwanzeladze represented the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in the lightweight. In Tokyo he won victories over the German starter Franz Schmitt from Mainz and the world champions Stevan Horvat and Eero Tapio from Finland . But he lost to Valeriu Bularca from Romania and Kazim Ayvaz from Turkey and thus won the bronze medal .

Dawit Gwanzeladze was still one of the leading lightweight wrestlers in the Soviet Union in the following years, but did not appear in international championships.

Championships

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, up to 1961 up to 67 kg, from 1962 up to 70 kg body weight, We = welter weight, up to 1961 up to 73 kg, from 1962 up to 78 kg body weight)

• 1962, 1st place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow , GR, Le, ahead of Kyösti Lehtonen , Finland a . Ion Gheorghe, Romania ;
• 1963, 2nd place , World Championship in Helsingborg , GR, Le, with victories over Omer Pauwels, Belgium , Klaus Rost , FRG , Franz Berger , Austria a . Eckhard Schulz , GDR a . a tie against Stevan Horvat , Yugoslavia ;
• 1964, 1st place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow, GR, Le, ahead of Stevan Horvat u. Klaus Rost;
• 1964, bronze medal , OS in Tokyo , GR, Le, with victories over Franz Schmitt , FRG, Stevan Horvat, Tokuaki Fujita, Japan a . Eero Tapio , Finland a . Defeats against Valeriu Bularca , Romania a. Kazim Ayvaz , Turkey ;
• 1967, 4th place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow, GR, Le, behind Wladimir Novochatko , USSR , Antal Steer , Hungary a . Eckhard Schulz

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1960 to 1967,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages W-55 u. O-74,
• Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Dawit Gwanzeladze at the Institute for Applied Training Science