Giorgi Tenadze

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Giorgi Tenadze (born May 24, 1962 in Poti , Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti , Georgian SSR ) is a former Soviet judoka . He won an Olympic bronze medal in the lightweight, the weight class up to 71 kilograms.

Athletic career

The 1.72 m tall athlete won the 1984 student world championships. He won a bronze medal at the 1985 Summer Universiade. In 1987 Tenadze won with the Soviet team at the World Team Championships before the French.

In 1988 he won the international tournament in Tbilisi for the second time after 1985. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 he won his first four fights and then lost in the semifinals to French Marc Alexandre , who later became Olympic champion. Tenadze won the battle for bronze against the Hungarian Bertalan Hajtós after 1:44 min through Ippon .

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1989, Tenadze met Marc Alexandre in the quarterfinals and lost, with two wins in the round of hope Tenadze won the bronze medal. At the 1989 World Championships held in Belgrade, Tenadze was defeated by US judoka Mike Swain in the semi-finals . In the battle for bronze he met Marc Alexandre and this time won the fight. At the European Championships in 1990 Tenadze finished seventh after defeats against the Turks Alparslan Ayan and against Bertalan Hajtós. After that, his international career ended.

In 1986, 1989 and 1989 Giorgi Tenadze was the Soviet lightweight champion.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge: Die Chronik IV , p. 106f
  2. ↑ All results, unless otherwise stated, follow the presentation in the results database of judoinside.com; sport-komplett.de shows the same results.
  3. ↑ Giorgi Tenadze in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Tenadze, Giorgi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet judoka
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Poti , Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti , Georgian SSR