Mikhail Mamiashvili

Mikhail Mamiashvili

Medal record
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	Middleweight
World Championships
	1983 Kiev	Middleweight
	1985 Kolbotn	Middleweight
	1986 Budapes	Middleweight
	1989 Martigny	Middleweight
	1990 Ostia	Middleweight
European Championships
	1986 Piraeus	Welterweight
	1988 Kolbotn	Middleweight
	1989 Oulu	Middleweight

Mikhail Mamiashvili (born 1963 in Konotop, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian wrestler of Georgian origin. He won an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, competing for the Soviet Union. He is vice President United World Wrestling

Career

He won gold medals at the 1983, 1985 and 1986 World Wrestling Championships and won the European championship in 1986. He also won two silver medal at the World Wrestling Championships in 1989, 1990. He was USSR National Champion in 1984, 1987, and 1988. He is currently the President of Russian Wrestling Federation and one of the most powerful men in International Olympic wrestling serving as a FILA Bureau Member (Federation of Associated Wrestling Style)(www.fila-wrestling.com).Mamiashvili was inducted in the FILA Hall of Fame in 2008 for his many accomplishments as an athlete and administrator for Soviet/Russian wrestling.^[1]

He currently chairs and the President of the Wrestling Federation of Russia.

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