Vladimir Apziauri

Wladimir Apziauri medal table
fencing
Soviet Union Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	Seoul 1988	Foil team
World championships
gold	Rome 1982	Foil team
bronze	Barcelona 1985	Foil team
bronze	Lyon 1990	Foil team

Wladimir Apziauri ( Georgian ვლადიმერ აფციაური ; born February 4, 1962 in Mingrelia and Upper Svanetia , Georgian SSR ; † May 14, 2012 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian foil fencer who competed for the Soviet Union.

successes

Wladimir Apziauri achieved all of his international successes in team competition. At world championships he won the title with the Soviet team in Rome in 1982 , two bronze medals followed in 1985 in Barcelona and 1990 in Moscow . At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 he was in the team competition together with İlqar Məmmədov , Anwar Ibragimow , Boris Korezki and Alexander Romankow Olympic champion . After victories against China in the quarter-finals and Hungary in the semi-finals, the Soviet team defeated Germany 9: 5 in the battle for gold.

After his active career, he worked as a fencing coach, including from 1998 to 2006 for the Kuwait national team . He was president of the Georgian Fencing Federation.

Web links

Wladimir Apziauri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Fencer Aptsiauri dies in Tbilisi. In: vestnikkavkaza.net. May 17, 2012, accessed November 29, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Apziauri, Vladimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	ვლადიმერ აფციაური (Georgian); Aptsiauri, Vladimer (English transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH	4th February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti , Georgian SSR
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 2012
Place of death	Tbilisi , Georgia

[1] Fencer Aptsiauri dies in Tbilisi. In: vestnikkavkaza.net. May 17, 2012, accessed November 29, 2018 .