Gogi Murmanowitsch Koguashvili

Gogo Koguashvili medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union / Russia
Olympic games
bronze	1992 Barcelona	Semi-difficult
World championships
gold	1993 Stockholm	Semi-difficult
gold	1994 Tampere	Semi-difficult
bronze	1995 Prague	Semi-difficult
gold	1997 Wroclaw	Semi-difficult
gold	1998 Gävle	Semi-difficult
gold	1999 Athens	Semi-difficult
European Championship
gold	1995 Besançon	Semi-difficult
gold	1996 Budapest	Semi-difficult
silver	2000 Moscow	Semi-difficult
gold	2002 Seinäjoki	Semi-difficult
Military World Championship
gold	2001 split	Semi-difficult
Junior World Championship (Espoirs)
gold	1989 Budapest	Semi-difficult
Junior European Championship (Espoirs)
bronze	1988 Walbrzych	Semi-difficult
Junior European Championship (Juniors)
gold	1987 Katowice	up to 88 kg

Gogi Murmanowitsch Koguaschwili ( Russian Гоги Мурманович Когуашвили ; Georgian გოგი კოღუაშვილი , Kogi Koghuaschwili ; born April 26, 1969 in Kutaisi ) is a former Soviet or Russian wrestler .

Career

Gogi Koguaschwili grew up in Georgia , which had developed after the Second World War to a wrestler stronghold, where she started in 1982 with the rings . As a teenager, he dominated his age groups in the Soviet Union, who wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. In 1987, as an 18-year-old athlete, he won the European Junior Championship in Katowice in the class up to 88 kg body weight. In 1989 he won the Junior World Championship (Espoirs, i.e. up to the age of 20) in Budapest in the light heavyweight division.

In 1990 Koguashvili joined the army and was transferred to the central sports club of the CSKA Moscow army , where Viktor Mamiashvili became his coach. In the seniors he proved himself in the 1991 World Cup tournament in Thessaloniki , which he won. At the Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany , he took 2nd place. In the final there he lost to Maik Bullmann from Goldbach . Since he also prevailed in the Soviet elimination tournaments, he was sent to the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . He won the bronze medal there, but without meeting Mike Bullmann, who was Olympic champion, because he had been defeated by Hakkı Başar from Turkey in the preliminary decision .

At the European Championships in 1993 in Istanbul , Gogi Koguashvili lost in the first round against Hakkı Başar and was eliminated early. He did all the better at the World Championships in Stockholm that year . Here he defeated Maik Bullmann in the final for the first time and became world champion. In the next few years there was the duel between Koguashvili and Bullmann more often and Koguashvili always prevailed.

In 1994 it went exactly as it did the year before. At the European Championships in Athens in spring Koguashvili was eliminated after a defeat in the first round and only finished 19th. At the World Championships in Tampere, however, he won his second world title. On the way he defeated Maik Bullmann again and in the final Vyacheslav Oleinik from Ukraine , who should become one of his main competitors in the next few years.

In 1995, Koguashvili won his first European title. In Besançon he beat Maik Bullmann again in the final with 4: 3 points after extra time. In Prague in autumn 1995 he surprisingly lost the fight for the next world title. He was defeated by the Yugoslav Goran Kasum and only reached the battle for the bronze medal, which he won against the Cuban Reinaldo Pena . Hakkı Başar became world champion.

In 1996 he won again at the European Championships in Budapest in front of his old competitors Maik Bullmann and Vyacheslav Oleinik. A good omen for the Olympic Games that year? No, because in Atlanta he lost to the Hungarian Nandor Gelenesi and had to retire early. Only 13th place remained for him. Olympic champion was Oleinik.

In 1997 a new weight classification came into force. Gogi Koguaschwili continued to start in the light heavyweight class, which now had its limit of 97 kg. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 he concentrated entirely on the world championships and won his world championship titles No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5. In 1997 in Wroclaw , he defeated the two-time Olympic heavyweight champion Andrzej Wronski Poland, who had trained in the new weight class, and Anatoli Fedorenko from Ukraine in the final . In 1998 he defeated the Czech Marek Švec in the final and in 1999 he won in Athens ahead of the three world and Olympic champions of previous years Andrzej Wroński , Mikael Ljungberg and Hakkı Başar.

Koguashvili was again a high favorite at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . However, nothing came of the Olympic victory. He was defeated in the preliminary decision by the American Garret Lowney and only finished 12th.

Gogi Koguaschwili then wrestled up to the Olympic Games in 2004. But he only won one major title, the 2002 European Champion in Seinäjoki / Finland . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he failed in the quarter-finals against 14-year-old Ramas Nosadze from Georgia . It remained an honorable 6th place for him.

With five world championship titles and three European championship titles, Gogi Koguaschwili was certainly one of the most successful wrestlers in the world in the Greco-Roman style. In four Olympic Games he was only able to win a single bronze medal. It remains a mystery why, with his undoubted ability, he repeatedly failed at the Olympic Games. He is now working as a trainer in the Russian Wrestling Federation.

Gogi Koguaschwili ended his wrestling career after the Olympic Games in 2004, during which he also worked for several years in the German Bundesliga. He completed his training as a coach and is now, 2008, the head coach of the Russian national wrestling team. In September 2007 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1987	1.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Katowice	up to 88 kg	before Nikolai Georgiew, Bulgaria and Laurentius Jacob, Romania
1988	3.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Wałbrzych / Poland	Hs	behind Péter Farkas , Hungary and Peter Petrow, Bulgaria
1989	1.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Budapest	Hs	before Todor Manow, Bulgaria and Reinaldo Pena , Cuba
1991	1.	World Cup tournament in Thessaloniki	Hs	before Moustapha Abdel Hareth, Egypt and Randy Couture, USA
1992	2.	Grand Prix tournament	Hs	behind Vyacheslav Oleinik , Ukraine and in front of Maik Bullmann , Germany
1992	bronze	OS in Barcelona	Hs	after losing to Hakki Basar , Turkey and victories over Harri Koskela , Finland, Tibor Komáromi , Hungary, Mike Foy , USA and Mikael Ljungberg , Sweden
1993	2.	German Grand Prix in Koblenz	Hs	behind Maik Bullmann and in front of Sjarhej Kiriltschuk, Belarus, Randy Couture , Petru Sudureac , Romania and Hakki Basar
1993	16.	EM in Istanbul	Hs	after losing to Hakki Bazaar
1993	1.	World Cup in Stockholm	Hs	before Maik Bullmann, Tengis Tedoradze, Georgia, Nándor Gelenesi, Hungary and Franz Marx, Austria
1994	19th	EM in Athens	Hs	Winner Vyacheslav Oleinik ahead of Kiriltschuk, Stig Kleven , Norway and Iordanis Konstantinidis, Greece
1994	1.	World Cup in Tampere	Hs	before Wjatscheslaw Oleinik, Maik Bullmann, Marek Kraczewski, Poland, Mike Foy and Stig Kleven
1995	1.	EM in Besançon	Hs	before Maik Bullmann, Vyacheslav Oleinik, Goran Kasum, Yugoslavia , Sjarhej Kiriltschuk and Petru Sudureac
1995	3.	World Cup in Prague	Hs	behind Hakkı Başar and Petru Sudureac and in front of Pena, Iordanis Konstantinidis and Harri Koskela, Finland
1996	1.	EM in Budapest	Hs	before Maik Bullmann, Vyacheslav Oleinik, Aljaksandr Sidarenka, Belarus, Harri Koskela and Ali Mollow, Bulgaria
1996	13.	OS in Atlanta	Hs	after losing to Hakki Basar, defeating Ueon in-han, South Korea and losing to Nandor Gelenesi, Hungary
1997	1.	World Cup in Wroclaw	Hs	with victories over Giuseppe Giunta, Italy , Pajo Isosevic, Yugoslavia, Igor Grabovetski, Moldova , Andrzej Wroński , Poland and Anatoli Fedorenko , Belarus
1998	1.	World Cup in Gävle / Sweden	Hs	after victories over Sergej Lishtwan, Belarus, Mindaugas Ezerskis, Lithuania, Petru Sudureac, Ali Mollow and Marek Švec , Czech Republic
1999	1.	World Cup in Athens	Hs	after victories over Ali Mollow, Chosen Papojan, Armenia, Reynaldo Pena, Cuba, Jason D. Klohs, USA, Hakki Basar and Andrzej Wronski
2000	2.	EM in Moscow	Hs	behind Sergej Lishtwan, Belarus and in front of Mehmet Özal, Turkey, Petru Sudureac and Béla Káló, Hungary
2000	12.	OS in Sydney	Hs	after losing to Garrett Lowney , USA and defeating Marek Svec
2001	1.	Military World Cup in Split	Hs	in front of Aljaksandr Sidarenka and Mindangas Ezeskis, Latvia
2002	1.	EM in Seinäjoki / Finland	Hs	after victories over Robert Petrosjan, Armenia, Lajos Virag, Hungary, Marek Sitnik, Poland, Ali Mollow and Sergej Lishtwan
2003	7th	EM in Belgrade	Hs	after victories over Roman Meduna, Slovakia and Marek Sitnik and a defeat against Ramas Nosadze , Georgia
2003	3.	World Cup tournament in Almaty	Hs	behind Ramas Nosadze and Justin Ruiz, USA
2004	6th	OS in Athens	Hs	after victories over Martin Lidberg , Sweden and Sergej Lishtwan and a defeat against Ramas Nosadze

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• "Hs" = light heavyweight, up to 90 kg up to 1996, up to 97 kg from 1997 to 2000, up to 96 kg body weight since 2001

literature

• various editions of the specialist magazine Der Ringer from 1987 to 2005
• www.sport-komplett.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FILA Class of 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 21, 2010  

Web links

• Profile of Gogi Koguaschwili at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Gogi Koguaschwili in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Interview with Gogi Koguashvili 2014 in Vantaa
• Portrait of Gogi Koguashvili