Giwi Kartosia

Giwi Kartosia medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	1956 Melbourne	medium
bronze	1960 Rome	Semi-difficult
World Championship
gold	1953 Naples	medium
gold	1955 Karlsruhe	medium
gold	1958 Budapest	medium

Givi Aleksandres dse Kartosia ( Georgian გივი ალექსანდრეს ძე კარტოზია , Russian Гиви Александрович Картозия Givi Aleksandrovich Kartosija * 29. March 1929 in Nakalakewi , Adjara , † 3. April 1998 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian wrestler who for the Soviet Union started. He was world champion in wrestling in 1953, 1955 and 1958. In 1956 he won the Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman. Middleweight style.

Career

Giwi Kartosia grew up in a small town near Tbilisi. It was there that he began wrestling . A wrestling scene had established itself in Georgia in the 1930s, which soon co-determined the Soviet top in freestyle wrestling. Arsen Mekokishvili , Dawit Tschimakuridze and Konstantin Koberidze are mentioned here. Kartosia made so good progress that at the end of the 1940s he was delegated to the Iskra Tiflis association , which was later renamed Burewestnik Tiflis .

After Nikolai Below , who dominated the middleweight division in the Greco-Roman style in the Soviet Union, ended his international career after the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , Kartosia succeeded him. He started in 1953 at the World Cup in Naples and immediately won the world championship there. In 1954 he tried his hand at the World Cup in Tokyo in the free style, but failed at the Turkish İsmet Atlı and only wrestled in the Greco-Roman style from then on. In 1955 he was again world middleweight champion in Karlsruhe. He achieved his greatest success in 1956 when he became Olympic middleweight champion in Melbourne . In the 1950s, the international wrestling federation FILA held world championships from year to year. Therefore, the next World Championships in Greco-Roman style did not take place again until 1958 in Budapest. Giwi Kartosia also won the title there.

After the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , where he once again won a light heavyweight medal, he ended his international career and then lived as a language teacher in Tbilisi.

The results of the championships and some other tournaments that Kartosia has played are shown in the following section.

International success

year	space	competition	style	Weight class	Results
1951	1.	World Festival of Youth in Berlin (East)	GR	medium	before György Gurics , Hungary and Lazăr Bujor , Romania
1953	1.	World Youth Festival in Bucharest	GR	medium	in front of Lazar Bujor and Jan Majewics, Poland
1953	1.	World Cup in Naples	GR	medium	with victories over Gyula Nemeti, Hungary, Emil Maas, Saarland , Vasile Onoiu, Romania, İsmet Atlı , Turkey , Axel Grönberg , Sweden and Kalervo Rauhala , Finland
1954	5.	World Cup in Tokyo	F.	medium	with victories over Abbas Zandi, Iran and Axel Grönberg and one defeat against İsmet Atlı
1955	1.	World Cup in Karlsruhe	GR	medium	with victories over Jan Majewics, Ottmar Sonnhalter, Saarland, Rune Jansson , Sweden, Horst Heß , FRG , Gyula Gurics and Branislav Simić , Yugoslavia
1956	gold	OS in Melbourne	GR	medium	with wins over Gyula Gurics, W. Patersson, Australia , Dimitar Dobrew , Bulgaria and despite a loss to Rune Jansson
1956	1.	World Cup in Istanbul	GR	medium	after victories over Yakup Romanoce, Lebanon, Werner Fivian, Switzerland, Ismet Atli, Horst Heß and Branislav Simic
1958	1.	World Cup in Budapest	GR	medium	with victories over Mithat Bayrak , Turkey , Pal Skekély, Hungary, Branislav Simić, Niculae Baciu, Romania, Dobrew, Lothar Metz , GDR and Horst Heß
1960	bronze	OS in Rome	GR	Semi-difficult	with victories over Howard George, USA , Herbert Albrecht , GDR, Gheorghe Popovici , Romania, Péter Piti, Hungary and Antero Vanhanen, Finland and one defeat against Tevfik Kış , Turkey

Most important international battles

• 1954, Sweden - USSR, point defeat against Axel Grönberg,
• 1954, Sweden - USSR, points victory over Bengt Lindblad,
• 1955, USSr - Sweden, points victory over Axel Grönberg,
• 1956, Sweden - USSR, point defeat against Rune Jansson

USSR championships

year	space	style	Weight class	Results
1950	3.	GR	medium	behind Nikolai Below and Grigory Tkachenko
1951	3.	GR	medium	behind Nikolai Below and Grigory Tkachenko
1952	1.	GR	medium	before W. Kratschun and M. Sucharjan
1953	1.	GR	medium	before Nikolai Below and Leonid Anfinogow
1954	1.	GR	medium
1955	1.	GR	medium	before Leonid Anfinogow and Wiktor Rekow
1956	2.	GR	medium	behind Viktor Rekow and in front of Nikolai Sukharev

Explanations

• GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
• Middle weight, back then up to 79 kg, light heavy weight up to 87 kg body weight

literature

• DOCUMENTATION of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976
• Athletics magazine from 1951 to 1960

Web links

• Profile of Giwi Kartosia at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Giwi Kartosia in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )