Geno Petriashvili

Geno Petriashvili
Petriashvili at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1994-04-01) 1 April 1994
Gori, Georgia
Height 198 cm (6 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight 125 kg (276 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Event(s) Freestyle
Club Dynamo Tbilisi[2]
Coached by Nugzar Skhireli (personal)
Revaz Kobakhidze (national)[3]
Medal record
Representing  Georgia
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro 125 kg
World Championships
2017 Paris125 kg
2013 Budapest120 kg
2015 Las Vegas125 kg
European Championships
2016 Riga125 kg
2018 Kaspiysk125 kg
2013 Tbilisi120 kg
2017 Novi Sad125 kg
European Games
2015 Baku125 kg
World U23 Wrestling Championships
2017 Bydgoszcz 125 kg

Geno Petriashvili (გენო პეტრიაშვილი; born 1 April 1994) is a Georgian heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He won a gold medal at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships as well as two bronze medals in 2013 and 2015. He won the European title in 2016 as well as two bronze medals at the European championships in 2013 and 2017, He won a bronze medal at the European Games in 2015. 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.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Geno Petriashvili Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine.. rio2016.com
  2. 1 2 Petriashvili, Geno (GEO). iat.uni-leipzig.de
  3. ↑ Geno Petriashvili. nbcolympics.com
  4. ↑ Mshvildadze, Vasil (31 October 2014). "Geno Petriashvili Is Disqualified". worldsport.ge. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
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