Dzneladze, Roman Mikhailovich

He began to engage in wrestling in 1948 in Tbilisi with coach N. G. Akopov. The first success came to the wrestler in 1952, when he won the championship of Georgia, and in the same year became the third at the championship of the USSR ^[1] .

In 1956, he won the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, competitions in which had the status of the USSR championship, while in the final bout he touched the 1952 Olympic champion Jacob Punkin and was included in the Olympic team .

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he fought in the weight category up to 62 kilograms. The winner is determined by the minimum number of penalty points: no penalty points were awarded for a clear victory ( carcass ), 1 penalty point was awarded for victory by decision of the judges; for any defeat 3 penalty points were awarded. The athlete who received 5 penalty points for the final bouts was eliminated from the tournament.

In battles:

• in the first round in the 9th minute he was put on the shoulder blades by Muzahir Sille ( Turkey ) and received 3 penalty points;

In the first round (and this was the first international meeting for him), he fought well with the Turk Sille, the future champion of the Roman Olympics. But the rival, fighting in the stalls from above, raised Roman so that he hung almost vertically, his head to the carpet. Roman rightly believed that the Turks would not throw him on the carpet, would not hit his head. Our rules do not allow this, because it can lead to serious injury. Is that the Turk will lower him to the carpet or try to throw through the back. But the rules in Melbourne were different. Roman managed to avoid hitting the carpet, but his shoulders and shoulder blades touched the carpet ^[1]

• in the second round, at the 5th minute, he was stewing Gunnar Hokansson ( Sweden );
• in the third round at the 11th minute, Umberto Trippu ( Italy ) was stewing ;
• in the fourth round, he won by a decision of the judges 2–1 against Rauno Mäkinen ( Finland ) and received 1 penalty point;
• in the fifth round did not participate.

In accordance with the current rules, a rare situation arose for the final bout. The fate of all the medals was decided in the battle of the Soviet fighter with the eminent Hungarian wrestler Imre Poyak . In the event of a clear victory for the Hungarian, he won a gold medal ^[1] , Dzneladze received silver, and Rauno Myakkinen remained third. In the event of a victory for Dzneladze (which seemed unlikely due to a serious injury to the arm of a Soviet wrestler), he became the first, Myakkinen the second, and Imre Poyak the third. If Imre Poyak won, he remained second in points, the Finnish wrestler became the champion, and Dzneladze remained only the third. Thus, in order to get the guaranteed “silver”, the Soviet wrestler himself could lie on his shoulder blades. The fight could bring gold, but most likely would send Dzneladze to third place.

In the final bout, Dzneladze lost on points Imre Poyaku ( Hungary ) with a score of 1: 2, remained third and thereby provided the Finnish wrestler with a gold medal ^{[1] [2]} .

He was awarded the medal "For Labor Distinction" .

He died in a car accident near Terzhola in 1966, together with the 1960 Olympic champion Avtandil Koridze .

• Roman Dzneladze - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com