Zurab Datunashvili

Zurabi Datunashvili
Personal information
Full name Zurabi Datunashvili
Nationality  Georgia
Born (1991-06-18) 18 June 1991
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Style Greco-Roman
Club National Club of Georgia[1]
Coach Viliam Charazov[1]

Zurab Datunashvili (Georgian: ზურაბ დათუნაშვილი; born June 18, 1991 in Tbilisi) is an amateur Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category.[1][2] He won a silver medal in the same weight division at the 2013 European Wrestling Championships, coincidentally in his home city Tbilisi, losing out to defending Olympic champion Roman Vlasov of Russia.[3]

Datunashvili represented Georgia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's 74 kg class. He defeated South Korea's Kim Jin-Hyeok, and United States' Ben Provisor in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Azerbaijan's Emin Ahmadov, with a three-set technical score (3–0, 0–3, 0–4), and a classification point score of 1–3.[4][5]

In World Wrestling Championships 2014 for bronze medal in the 75 kg he lost to Elvin Mursaliyev of Azerbaijan (1—1)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Zurabi Datunashvili". London 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  2. "Zurabi Datunashvili". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  3. "Gegeshidze Won Silver Medal". World Sport Georgia. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. "Men's 74kg Greco-Roman Quarterfinals". London 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  5. d'Amato, Gary (5 August 2012). "Provisor eliminated, but not discouraged". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 6 February 2013.

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