Tengis Chubuluri

from left to right: Tengis Chubuluri, Robert Van de Walle , Dietmar Lorenz and Henk Numan at the award ceremony of the 1980 Olympic Games

Tengis Chubuluri (born May 24, 1955 in Skra , Inner Kartlien , Georgian SSR ) is a former Soviet judoka , who mostly competed in the light heavyweight division. He won an Olympic silver medal, two world titles and two European titles.

Athletic career

The 1.85 m tall athlete from VS Tiflis was third in the heavyweight division of the Junior World Championships in 1974. In 1975 he won the junior European championship in the light heavyweight division. At the European Championships in 1976 in Kiev, he won the title with a final victory over Belgian Robert Van de Walle . In 1977 Chubuluri was European team champion with the Soviet team ahead of the French.

In 1979 Chubuluri won the European Championships in Brussels in the semifinals against the West German Günther Neureuther and in the final against Robert Van de Walle. The Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR was held in 1979 with international participation as a pre-Olympic tournament, Chubuluri won the final of the open class against Sergei Novikow . In December 1979 the 1979 World Championships took place in Paris . In the semifinals, Chubuluri won against the Austrian Robert Köstenberger , in the final he defeated Robert van de Walle once again.

The climax of the 1980 season was the Olympic Games in Moscow , especially for the Soviet athletes . Chubuluri won in the quarterfinals against Dietmar Lorenz from the GDR and in the semifinals the Cuban Rolando José Tornes . In the final, Robert Van de Walle and Tengis Chubuluri, the two best light heavyweights of those years, faced each other, in Moscow the Belgian won after seven minutes with a coca rating .

In the final of the European Championships in Debrecen in 1981 , Frenchman Roger Vachon won against Chubuluri. At the 1981 World Championships in Maastricht, however, Chubuluri met in the final again on Van de Walle and won his second world title after 1979. 1982 at the European Championships in Rostock Chubuluri finished fifth again. After that, his international career ended.

Chubuluri was the Soviet light heavyweight champion in 1979 and 1982.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5

Web links

• Tengis Chubuluri at JudoInside.com
• Tengis Chubuluri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World championships in light heavyweight on sport-komplett.de
• European light heavyweight championships on sport-komplett.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ All results, unless otherwise stated, follow the presentation in the results database of judoinside.com
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Die Chronik III , p. 730f
3. ↑ Tengis Chubuluri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )