Geno Petriashvili

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Geno Petriashvili
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Personal information
Born (1994-04-01) 1 April 1994 (age 27)
Gori, Georgia
Height198 cm (6 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight125 kg (276 lb)
Sport
SportWrestling
Event(s)Freestyle
ClubDynamo Tbilisi[2]
Easy Pipe Kashan (2017)
Atrak Bojnord (2019)[3]
Coached byNugzar Skhireli (personal)
Revaz Kobakhidze (national)[4]
Medal record
Representing  Georgia
Olympic Games
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Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 125 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 125 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Paris 125 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Budapest 125 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Nur-Sultan 125 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Oslo 125 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Budapest 120 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Las Vegas 125 kg
European Games
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku 125 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Riga 125 kg
Gold medal – first place 2020 Rome 125 kg
Silver medal – second place 2018 Kaspiysk 125 kg
Silver medal – second place 2019 Bucharest 125 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Tbilisi 120 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Novi Sad 125 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Warsaw 125 kg

Geno Petriashvili (გენო პეტრიაშვილი; born 1 April 1994) is a Georgian heavyweight freestyle wrestler.[5] Petriashvili won his first senior world title at the Paris 2017 World Championships after defeating rival Taha Akgul by the score of 10-8 in a back-and-forth match.[6] He then took his second world title at Budapest 2018 World Championships.[7] Petriashvili has also won two bronze medals in 2013 and 2015, and captured the European title at the 2016 Riga European Championships as well as two bronze medals at the European championships in both 2013 and 2017. He won a bronze medal the Rio Olympics in 2016 and a gold medal the Under 23 years world championships in Poland 2017.[2] He served a six-months suspension in 2014 after testing positive for the non-performance enhancing Preductal, which Petriashvili had been taking regularly since being kidnapped as a child.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Geno Petriashvili Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
  2. ^ a b Petriashvili, Geno (GEO) Archived 2016-09-08 at the Wayback Machine. iat.uni-leipzig.de
  3. ^ irna (31 October 2019). "Geno Petriashvili Joins Irans Local Wrestling". irna.ir. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  4. ^ Geno Petriashvili Archived 2016-09-20 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
  5. ^ https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbwrestling/daten.php?spid=72AEF9B1121F42FD8A041549EE94C3A0
  6. ^ "Petriashvili Stuns Akgul in Finale, Aliev Bags No.3 at Paris 2017 World C'ships | United World Wrestling". unitedworldwrestling.org. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  7. ^ "First gold medal awarded at 2018 World Wrestling Championships amid chaotic scenes". www.insidethegames.biz. 21 October 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  8. ^ Mshvildadze, Vasil (31 October 2014). "Geno Petriashvili Is Disqualified". worldsport.ge. Retrieved 8 August 2016.

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