Giorgi Schirtladse
| Giorgi Schirtladse medal table |
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| Soviet Union | ||
| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | 1956 Melbourne | medium |
| silver | 1960 Rome | medium |
| World Championship | ||
| silver | 1957 Istanbul | medium |
| gold | 1959 Tehran | medium |
Giorgi Sergos dse Schirtladse ( Georgian გიორგი სერგოს ძე სხირტლაძე , Russian Георгий Сергеевич Схиртладзе Georgi Sergeyevich Schirtladse * 9. November 1932 in Mtiskalta , Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti ; † 25. March 2008 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet wrestler from Georgia .
Life
Giorgi Schirtladse joined the sports club Spartak Tbilisi at an early age and started wrestling there. After 1945, a wrestling center developed in Tbilisi that trained a large number of excellent wrestlers. Schirtladse, who wrestled in free style, was one of them. He celebrated first successes at the national level in 1953 when he became the Soviet runner-up in free style in the middleweight division. In 1954 he was the first Soviet champion in the same weight class, defeating his Georgian countryman Dawit Tschimakuridze , the 1952 Olympic champion, in the final battle. Giorgi Schirtladse was Soviet champion in 1957 and 1960, again in the middleweight division.
On the international wrestling mat, he first drew attention to himself in an international match between the Soviet Union and Sweden in 1954 in Stockholm , where he defeated the two top Swedish middleweight wrestlers Bengt Lindblad and Axel Grönberg , the Olympic champions of 1948 and 1952. At the Soviet free style championships in 1956, Schirtladse only finished second behind the Estonian Saar, but was still nominated for the Olympic Games in Melbourne . There he won the bronze medal in the middleweight division in free style.
At the 1957 World Cup in Istanbul , Schirtladse was runner-up. After beating Hasan Güngör from Turkey , he drew against Prodan Gardschew from Bulgaria , but then surprisingly lost to Nabi Sorouri from Iran and thus gambled away the world title.
In 1959, Schirtladze took 3rd place at the Second People's Spartakiad of the USSR behind Tausbek Dschachsorow and Nikolai Aksenow, but received the confidence of the Soviet sports officials again when he was nominated for the World Cup that year in Tehran . In Tehran he justified this trust, because he became world champion there, although he lost again to Nabi Sorouri.
In 1960 Schirtladze was before G. Gobedishvili and A. Agabebian Soviet champion and represented the Soviet Union again at the Olympic Games. In Rome he lost to the American Edward De Witt and thus no longer reached the final battle against Hasan Güngör, but at least won the silver medal.
After 1960 Schirtladse was no longer at the start of any international wrestling championships.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 1956 | 4th | World Cup in Istanbul | medium | with a win over Isser Bagrabadi, Iran and defeats against Kazuo Katsuramoto, Japan and İsmet Atlı , Turkey |
| 1956 | bronze | OS in Melbourne | medium | with victories over Nicolas Arcales, Philippines , Hermanus Van Zyl, South Africa , Johann Sterr , Germany and İsmet Atlı and defeats against Daniel Hodge , USA and Nikola Stantschew , Bulgaria |
| 1957 | 2. | World Cup in Istanbul | medium | with wins over Fred Isenschmid, Switzerland , Takashi Nagai, Japan and Hasan Güngör , Turkey , a draw against Nikola Stantschew and a defeat against Nabi Sorouri , Iran |
| 1958 | 2. | World Cup in Sofia | medium | behind Hasan Güngör and in front of Lothar Lippa , GDR , Prodan Gardschew , Bulgaria and Nabi Sorouri |
| 1959 | 1. | World Cup in Tehran | medium | with victories over Rahmi, Iraq , Boleslaw Sidorowics, Poland , Géza Hollósi , Hungary and Lothar Lippa and despite a defeat against Nabi Sorouri |
| 1960 | silver | OS in Rome | medium | with wins over Mohamed Asif Khokan , Afghanistan , Madho Singh , India and Georg Utz , Germany, a draw against Hans Antonsson , Sweden and a defeat against Edward De Witt , USA |
Soviet championships
| year | space | Weight class | Results |
| 1953 | 2. | medium | behind Nikolai Komow, in front of S. Saar |
| 1954 | 1. | medium | before Dawit Tschimakuridze and Estete Karkubashvili |
| 1955 | 2. | medium | behind S. Saar, in front of Nikolai Komow |
| 1956 | 1. | medium | before S. Preobrazhensky and S. Saar |
| 1957 | 1. | medium | before Tausbek Dschachsorow |
| 1958 | 2. | medium | behind Guram Godechishvili, in front of Konstantin Nischeradze |
| 1959 | 3. | medium | behind Tausbek Dschachsorow and Nikolai Aksenow |
| 1960 | 1. | medium | before Guram Godechishvili and Aram Agabebjan |
- Explanations
- all free style competitions
- OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
- Middle weight, at that time up to 79 kg body weight
literature
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships . FILA, 1976
- International Wrestling Database . University of Leipzig
- Athletics . 1954-1960
Web links
- Profile of Giorgi Schirtladse at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Giorgi Schirtladse in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Short portrait with photo by Giorgi Schirtlanse
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schirtladse, Giorgi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schirtladse, Giorgi Sergos dse (full name); სხირტლაძე, გიორგი სერგოს ძე (Georgian Mchedruli); Schirtladse, Georgi Sergejewitsch (Russian-Latin); Схиртладзе, Георгий Сергеевич (Russian-Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Georgian wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mtiskalta , Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 2008 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |