Shota Khabareli
Personal information | |
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Born | 26 December 1958 |
Occupation | Judoka |
Sport | |
Country | Soviet Union |
Sport | Judo |
Weight class | –78 kg |
Achievements and titles | |
Olympic Games | (1980) |
World Champ. | (1983) |
European Champ. | (1979, 1982) |
Medal record | |
Profile at external databases | |
IJF | 793 |
JudoInside.com | 5821 |
Updated on 20 June 2023 |
Shota Khabareli (Georgian: შოთა ხაბარელი; born 26 December 1958) is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the half-middleweight class.
Khabareli was a bronze medallist in the 1983 World Championships in Moscow and two times silver medalist in the European Championships; first in Brussels 1979 and again in Rostock 1982. Khabareli also won continental bronze medals in Debrecen 1981 and Paris 1983.
Khabareli was a champion of the international tournaments in Warsaw in 1978 and Hungary in 1979. He was also a silver medalist in Budapest in 1985 and bronze medallist of the Jigoro Kano Cup in Tokyo in 1982.
Khabareli is famous for the knee lift throw,[1] also known in sumo as yagura nage.
References
- ^ "International Freestyle Judo Alliance - Freestyle Judo - The way Judo ought to be". freestylejudo.org. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015.
External links
- Shota Khabareli at the International Judo Federation
- Shota Khabareli at JudoInside.com
- Shota Khabareli at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Shota Khabareli at Olympics.com
- Shota Khabareli at Olympedia
- Shota Khabareli at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Shota Khabareli at The-Sports.org
- Shota Khabareli at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
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