Shalva Gadabadze

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Shalva Gadabadze
Personal information
NationalityFlag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
Born (1984-05-30) 30 May 1984 (age 40)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight101 kg (223 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Event Greco-Roman
ClubAtasport Baku (AZE) [1]
Coached byEldshin Dshafarov (AZE) [1]
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
World Wrestling Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Budapest –96 kg
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 Vilnius 84 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Dortmund 96 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Belgrade 96 kg

Shalva Gadabadze (Azerbaijani : Şalva Qadabadze; born May 30, 1984, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is an amateur Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler, who competes in the men's light heavyweight category. [1] [2] He won two bronze medals at the 2009 European Wrestling Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania, and at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Germany. [3] [4] He is a member of Atasport Wrestling Club in Baku, and is coached and trained by Eldshin Dshafarov.

Gadabadze represented his current nation, Azerbaijan, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 84 kg class. He first defeated Tunisia's Haykel Achouri in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing the quarterfinal match to Hungary's Zoltán Fodor, with a technical score of 2–5. [5] Because his opponent advanced further into the final, Gadabadze was offered another shot at the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts. He was defeated by China's Ma Sanyi in the first repechage round, with a score of 5–6. [6]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Gadabadze switched to a heavier class, competing in the men's 96 kg. He received a bye for the second preliminary round, before losing out to Russia's Rustam Totrov, who was able to score three points in two straight periods. [7] Because Totrov advanced further into the final, Gadabadze qualified for the repechage bout, where he was defeated by Sweden's Jimmy Lidberg, with a technical score of 1–2. [8]

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