Georgia at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Georgia at the Olympic Games
Flag of Georgia
IOC code:	GEO
NOC:	Georgian National Olympic Committee
1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Medals Rank: 68	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 2	Total 2
Summer Olympic Games appearances
1996 • 2000 • 2004
Winter Olympic Games appearances
1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006
Other related appearances
Soviet Union (1952–1988) Unified Team (1992)

Georgia competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Previously, Georgian athletes competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Contents 1 Medals 1.1 Bronze 2 Results by event 2.1 Archery 2.2 Boxing 2.3 Modern pentathlon 3 References

[edit] Medals

[edit] Bronze

• Soso Liparteliani — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
• Eldar Kurtanidze — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight (90 kg)

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

In its debut Olympic archery competition, Georgia sent only Unified Team-era veteran archer and quarterfinalist Khatouna Kurivichvili. In Atlanta, she was defeated in the first round.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Khatouna Kurivichvili — Round of 64, 49th place (0-1)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

• Koba Gogoladze
  1. First Round — Defeated Ri Chol (North Korea), 17-9
  2. Second Round — Defeated Julio Gonzalez Valladares (Cuba), 14-9
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Leonard Doroftei (Romania), 8-17

Men's Light Welterweight (63,5 kg)

• Besiki Wardzetashvili
  1. First Round — Lost to Serguei Bykovski (Belarus), 11-11 (referee decision)

Men's Welterweight (67 kg)

• Tengiz Meskhadze
  1. First Round — Lost to Fernando Vargas (United States), 4-10

Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

• Akaki Kakauridze
  1. First Round — Defeated Ricardo Araneda (Chile), 10-3
  2. Second Round — Lost to Mohamed Bahari (Algeria), 5-8

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

• Georgi Kandelaki
  1. First Round — Defeated Thompson García (Ecuador), abandoned
  2. Second Round — Defeated Woiciech Bartnik (Poland), 6-1
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Félix Savón (Cuba), 4-20

[edit] Modern pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition

• Vakhtang Yagorashvili — 5226 pts (→ 20th place)

[edit] References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

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