Rostom Abashidze

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Rostom Omarowitsch Abashidze ( Georgian როსტომ აბაშიძე ; born February 23, 1935 in Batumi , Ajarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a former Soviet wrestler of Georgian descent. In 1958, 1962 and 1963 he was world champion in Greco-Roman. Light heavyweight style.

Career

Abashidze grew up in Tbilisi , where he started wrestling as a teenager. First he started for Dinamo Tbilisi , which after 1945 had developed into a center of Soviet wrestling. In Tbilisi he had coaches who soon introduced him to the Soviet and thus to the top of the world.

He later moved to Rostov-on-Don . Abashidze wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. In 1957 he was accepted into the Soviet national team of wrestlers. This year he also appeared internationally for the first time when he was with the III. Won international light heavyweight sports games in Moscow . In the same year he won the Soviet championships for the first time.

In 1958 he was also used at the World Championships in Budapest and won the title there, although he only came to a draw against the Swede Rune Jansson and the Bulgarian Petko Sirakow .

In 1959 there were no world championships. At the Soviet championships that year, he only finished third.

Although he had become champion again at the Soviet championships in 1960, the Soviet federation did not use him, but the 1956 middleweight Olympic champion Giwi Kartosia at the Olympic Games in Rome , who only came third in the light heavyweight division.

In 1961, Abashidze had to take an international break. It wasn't until 1962 that he started again in Toledo , Ohio , USA , and won his second world title there. As a minimalist, he only did as much as was necessary to win the title, as evidenced by the two draws against William Lovell from the USA and Bojan Radew from Bulgaria .

Rostom finally won his third world title in Helsingborg in 1963 with five wins and only one draw against the strong Turkish Hamit Kaplan .

In 1964 he was finally allowed to compete in the Olympic Games . In Tokyo , however, he was surprisingly not in top form, fought twice for draws and won twice on points and had to retire undefeated due to the rule of error points. So only the fifth place remained for him.

After these championships Rostom Abashidze no longer appeared.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, up to 1960 up to 87 kg body weight, from 1961 up to 97 kg body weight)

  • 1964, 5th place , OS in Tokyo , GR, Hs, with victories over Ferenc Kiss , Hungary and Peter Jutzeler, Switzerland and a draw against Cucic and Svensson

USSR championships

  • 1957, 1st place, GR, Hs, before T. Kotschorjan, Armenia and A. Morosow, Leningrad;
  • 1959, 3rd place, GR, Hs, behind Arkadi Tkachev, RSFSR and N. Parchomenko, RSFSR;
  • 1960, 1st place, GR, Hs, before I. Niglas, Tallinn and A. Kirow, Kuibyshev

International battles

  • 1958, Sweden against USSR, GR, Hs, tie against Rune Jansson,
  • 1960, USSR against FRG, GR, Hs, point winner over Heinz Eichelbaum

swell

  • Athletics magazine
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Abashidze, Rostom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES როსტომ აბაშიძე
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Batumi , Ajarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic