Givi Ivanovich Onashvili (born 27 July 1947) is a
Georgian
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judoka
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...
who competed for the
Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 371 competitors, 298 men and 73 women, took part in 180 events in 22 sports.
The Soviet Union won 50 gold medal in the year, when the fiftieth anniversary of t ...
, and won a bronze medal in the
heavyweight class.
Onashvili won a bronze medal in the
1969 World Judo Championships in Mexico City. He is a double
European Champion (
London 1974 and
Lyon 1975), three times silver medalist (
Oostende 1969,
Voorburg 1972 and
Kiev 1976) and bronze medalist in
Göteborg 1971. In 1976 he won a silver medal in the International Tournament of Paris.
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Male judoka from Georgia (country)
Soviet male judoka
Olympic judoka for the Soviet Union
Judoka at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in judo
1947 births
Living people
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
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