Shota Khabareli ( ka, შოთა ხაბარელი; born 26 December 1958) is a
Georgian
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judoka
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who competed for the
Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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The Soviet Union won a record 80 gold medals (although since surpassed by the United ...
, 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
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; 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,
also known in
sumo
is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by thr ...
as .
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1958 births
Living people
Male judoka from Georgia (country)
Soviet male judoka
Olympic judoka for the Soviet Union
Judoka at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in judo
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Recipients of the Presidential Order of Excellence
Place of birth missing (living people)
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