Vakhtang Blagidze

Wachtang Blagidze ( Georgian ვახტანგ ბლაგიძე ; born July 23, 1954 in Tschotschchati near Lantschchuti , Gurien ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He was Olympic champion in Moscow in 1980 and multiple world and European champion in wrestling in Greco-Roman style in flyweight.

Career

Vakhtang Blagidze comes from Georgia . He started wrestling as a teenager and was delegated to the Tbilisi Wrestling Center after his first major successes in the youth field . In 1977, when he was only 20 years old, he won the Soviet flyweight championship. Since then he has been part of the Soviet national team of wrestlers in Greco-Roman. Style.

In 1978 Wachtang was also used for the first time at an international championship, the European championship in Oslo . There he won the European Championship in a superior style with six wins. Among the wrestlers he defeated were u. a. Rolf Krauß from Ludwigshafen am Rhein as well as Lajos Rácz from Hungary and Nicu Gângă from Romania . In the same year he also won the flyweight championship in Mexico City . Here, too, he achieved decisive victories over Rolf Krauss and Nicu Gângă.

At the national level, Wachtang had to find out in 1978 and 1979 that it was easier to become world champion than to place in the front field at the Soviet championships. He did not succeed in both years to place among the top three winners of this championship. The consequence of this was that he was not used in 1979 at any international championships.

In 1980 he dominated the Soviet championship again. He then went to the European Championship, which took place in Prievidza , to the start and won the European Championship again with six wins. The 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow became the highlight of Vakhtang Blagidze's career . There he deservedly won the gold medal with a sure victory in the final battle over Lajos Racz .

In 1981 watch only started at the World Championships in Oslo. As a result of a lucky draw, three wins were enough for him to win the world title again.

Wachtang Blagidze started at a total of five major international championships. At all of these championships he took first place. He played a total of 26 fights, all of which he won.

From 1982 he was at the start in no international championships.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

• 1978, 1st place , EM in Oslo , GR, Fl, with victories over Rolf Krauss , FRG , Kadri, Albania , Krum Borisow , Bulgaria , Serhal Karadag , Turkey , Lajos Rácz , Hungary a . Nicu Gângă , Romania ;
• 1978, 1st place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, Fl, with victories over Enochi Hiroma, Japan , Marcos Mellan, Cuba , Krum Borisow, Witold Maldachowski, Poland , Rolf Krauss u. Nicu Gângă;
• 1980, 1st place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg , GR, Fl, ahead of Lajos Rácz, Antonin Jelinek, Czechoslovakia , Nicu Gângă, Mohamed Falhalla, Egypt a . Rolf Krauss;
• 1980, 1st place , EM in Prievidza , GR, Fl, with victories over Sandor Kovacs, Hungary, Bjarne Nielsen, Denmark , Antonin Jelinek, Nicu Gângă, Rolf Krauss u. Mladen Mladenow , Bulgaria;
• 1980, Golgmedaille , OS in Moscow , GR, Fl, with victories over Taisto Halonen, Finland , Haralambos Holidis , Greece , Mladen Mladenow, Antonin Jelinek u. Lajos Rácz;
• 1981, 4th place , tournament in Västerås , GR, Ba, behind Benni Ljungbeck , Sweden , Asen Milew, Bulgaria u. Hartmut Kohlhaas , GDR a . before Rolf Krauss u. Hakan Petterssen, Sweden;
• 1981, 1st place , World Championships in Oslo, GR, Fl, with victories over Lubomir Zekow , Bulgaria, Lajos Rácz u. Atsuji Miyahara , Japan;
• 1982, 2nd place , World Cup in Budapest , GR, Fl, behind Atsuji Miyahara u. in front of Lajos Rácz, Velim Dogandjinski, Bulgaria, Abu Shama Bakr, Egypt a. Lewis Dorrance, USA

swell

• 1) Trade journal "Der Ringer", nos .: 05/1978, pages 5/6, 09/1978, page 4, 03/1980, pages 4/5, 05/1980, page 7, 07/1980, page 6, 04/1981, page 5, 09/1981, pages 4/5
• 2) Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Wachtang Blagidse at the Institute for Applied Training Science