Geno Petriashvili

Geno Petriashvili

Petriashvili at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1994-04-01) 1 April 1994
Gori, Georgia, Georgia
Height 198 cm (6 ft 6 in)[1]
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
2013 Budapest 120 kg
2015 Las Vegas 125 kg
European Championships
2013 Tbilisi 120 kg
2016 Riga 125 kg
European Games
2015 Baku 125 kg

Geno Petriashvili (გენო პეტრიაშვილი; born 1 April 1994) is a Georgian heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He won the European title in 2016 as well as five bronze medals: at the world championships in 2013 and 2015, at the European championships in 2013, at the European Games in 2015, and at the Rio Olympics in 2016.[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. 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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