Shmagi Bolkvadze ( Georgian შმაგი ბოლქვაძე ), July 26, 1994 , Hulo , Adjara , Georgia - Georgian Greco-Roman style wrestler , bronze medalist of the Olympic Games, medalist of European championships.
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| Trainers | Vakha Krayveshvili |
| Growth | 170 cm |
| Weight | 66 kg |
Biography
In 2009, he won a silver medal at the European Championship among cadets, in 2010 he was only the 12th, in 2011 the third, and the fifth at the World Championship among cadets.
In 2013, he was the bronze medalist of the Freidenfelds Cup among juniors, and was second at the World Junior Championships. In 2014, he won the world junior champion title and was a bronze medalist at the European Championships. Since 2015, he began to compete in adults. He was third at the Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament , fourth at the Kazakhstan President’s Cup, and seventh at the World Cup.
In 2016, he won the bronze medal of the European Championship, was second at the pre-Olympic qualification tournament in Zrenjanin and fifth at the German Grand Prix.
He performed at the 2016 Olympic Games in the category of up to 66 kilograms. Athletes were divided into 2 groups, of which two finalists were determined, playing gold and silver awards among themselves. The losers to the finalist met among themselves in comforting meetings, in which two bronze medalists were determined, one from each group.
He was not among the obvious contenders for medals, occupying the tenth line of the world ranking. [one]
At the games of Shmagi, Bolkvadze managed to defeat the Olympic champion Omid Noruzi in the quarterfinal, but in the semifinal he could not oppose the future champion Davor Stefanek at all. In the meeting for the bronze medal won.
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| A circle | Rival | Periods (technical points) | Total (classification points) | |
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| Qualification | Skipped | - | - | - |
| 1/8 | Tero Vyalimaki Finland | 2 (2) - 0 | ten | On points thirty |
| 1/4 | Omid Norouzi Iran | 0 - 0 | 2 (1 + 1) - 0 | On points thirty |
| 1/2 | Davor Stefanek Serbia | 0-7 (4 + 2 + 1); carcass | - | Touche 0 - 5 |
| For third place | Tomohiro Inoue Japan | 0 - 0 | ten | On points thirty |
Notes
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date accessed August 17, 2016. Archived September 21, 2016.
Links
- Shmagi Bolkvadze - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Shmagi Bolkvadze - profile on International Wrestling Database