Parnaoz Chikviladze

Parnaoz Chikviladze

Doug Rogers, Isao Inokuma, Parnaoz Chikviladze and Anzor Kiknadze at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born	14 April 1941 Chabinaani, Kakheti, Georgia
Died	14 June 1966 (aged 25) Moscow, Russia
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	104 kg (229 lb)
Sport
Sport	Judo
Club	Burevestnik Tbilisi
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union Summer Olympics 1964 Tokyo Heavyweight European championships 1964 Berlin +80 kg (amateurs) 1965 Madrid +93 kg (professionals) 1965 Madrid +93 kg (amateurs) 1966 Luxembourg +93 kg

Parnaoz Lukich Chikviladze (Georgian: ფარნაოზ ჩიკვილაძე, Russian: Парнаоз Лукич Чиквиладзе, 14 April 1941 – 14 June 1966) was a Georgian judoka, who won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division (+80 kg) at the 1964 Summer Olympics. At the European Championships he won a gold medal in 1965 and silver medals in 1964, 1965 and 1966. In 1964 he also was European champion in the team event.^[1] He died in a car accident in Moscow in 1966 and thus never competed in the Soviet judo championships, which were first conducted in 1973.^[2]

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