Omar Bliadse

Omar Bliadze ( Georgian ომარ ბლიაძე ; born March 31, 1942 in Tbilisi ) is a former Soviet wrestler of Georgian descent. He was European Middleweight Champion in 1968 in the Greco-Roman style.

Career

Omar Bliadze grew up in Georgia and started wrestling there. After the first major successes in the national area, he was delegated to the large central sports club "Dynamo" Tbilisi . He developed excellently there and was one of the best Soviet wrestlers in Greco-Roman in the mid-1960s. Middleweight style. Nevertheless, it was not easy for him to prevail in the USSR against his enormously strong competitors such as Anatoly Kirov , Alexander Jurkewitsch , Anatoli Kolessow or Valentin Olenik , the list could be expanded at will, and to get some starts at international championships.

In 1968 he was used at the European Championships in Västerås . There he showed what he can do and became European champion with three wins and a tactically cleverly won draw against Petar Krumow from Bulgaria . The next start in an international championship was in 1969 at the World Championships in Mar del Plata . Since a new division of the weight classes has now been carried out, Omar had to work off many kilos in order to be able to start again in the middleweight division. This had a negative effect for him insofar as he, weakened by a lot of training, this time lost against Petar Krumow on points and was "only" vice world champion.

After this European Championship, Omar Bliadse only competed in the light heavyweight division (class up to 90 kg body weight). In this weight class, however, his compatriot Valeri Resanzew dominated the wrestling events in the Soviet Union and in the world. When Resanzew paused in 1972 because of the preparation for the Olympic Games in Munich at the European Championships in Katowice , Omar Bliadze was reinstated. He fought very well there again and came in second with four wins.

International success

(WM = world championship, EM = European championship, GR = Greek-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, up to 1968 up to 87 kg, from 1969 up to 82 kg body weight, Hs = light heavyweight, up to 1968 up to 97 kg and from 1969 up to 90 kg Body weight)

• 1968, 1st place , EM in Västerås , GR, Wed, with victories over Michel Bourgouin, France , Etienne Martinetti, Switzerland a . Yavus Selekman, Turkey a . a tie against Petar Krumow , Bulgaria ;
• 1969, 2nd place , World Championship in Mar del Plata , GR, Wed, ömit victories over Larry Spean, USA , Milan Nenadić , Yugoslavia a . Matti Laakso , Finland , a tie against Jan Kårström , Sweden a . a loss to Petar Krumov;
• 1971, 2nd place , tournament in Klippan / Sweden, GR, Hs, behind Stojan Nikolow , Bulgaria a. before Nicolae Neguț , Romania a . Lothar Metz , GDR ;
• 1972, 2nd place , EM in Katowice , GR, Hs, with victories over Jan Sebetovsky, CSSR , Herbert Lins, Austria , Barend Kops, Netherlands , Nicolae Neguț u. Darko Nišavić , Yugoslavia a. a loss to Stoyan Nikolov

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1968 to 1972,
• 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976

Web links

• Profile of Omar Bliadse at the Institute for Applied Training Science