Vakhtang Blagidze

Vakhtang Blagidze
Medal record

Representing the Soviet Union
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Olympic Games
	1980 Moscow	Flyweight

Vakhtang Blagidze (Georgian: ვახტანგ ბლაგიძე ; born July 23, 1954) is a wrestler from Guria, Georgia. He was Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1980, competing for the Soviet Union. He won gold medals at the 1978 and 1981 World Wrestling Championships.^[1]

References

Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman flyweight

1948 Pietro Lombardi (ITA) 1952 Boris Gurevich (URS) 1956 Nikolay Solovyov (URS) 1960 Dumitru Pârvulescu (ROU) 1964 Tsutomu Hanahara (JPN) 1968 Petar Kirov (BUL) 1972 Petar Kirov (BUL) 1976 Vitaly Konstantinov (URS) 1980 Vakhtang Blagidze (URS) 1984 Atsuji Miyahara (JPN) 1988 Jon Rønningen (NOR) 1992 Jon Rønningen (NOR) 1996 Armen Nazaryan (ARM) 2000 Sim Kwon-ho (KOR)

−52 kg (1948–1996) −54 kg (2000)

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