David Tsimakuridze

David Tsimakuridze (March 29, 1925 in Poti, Georgian SSR – May 9, 2006) is a former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.

He was born in Poti and died in Tbilisi.

Olympics

Tsimakuridze competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the middleweight class.^[1]

Olympic Champions in freestyle middleweight

1908 Stanley Bacon (GBR) 1920 Eino Leino (FIN) 1924 Fritz Hagmann (SUI) 1928 Ernst Kyburz (SUI) 1932 Ivar Johansson (SWE) 1936 Émile Poilvé (FRA) 1948 Glen Brand (USA) 1952 David Tsimakuridze (URS) 1956 Nikola Stanchev (BUL) 1960 Hasan Güngör (TUR) 1964 Prodan Gardzhev (BUL) 1968 Boris Gurevich (URS) 1972 Levan Tediashvili (URS) 1976 John Peterson (USA) 1980 Ismail Abilov (BUL) 1984 Mark Schultz (USA) 1988 Han Myung-woo (KOR) 1992 Kevin Jackson (USA) 1996 Khadzhimurad Magomedov (RUS) 2000 Adam Saitiev (RUS) 2004 Cael Sanderson (USA) 2008 Revaz Mindorashvili (GEO) 2012 Sharif Sharifov (AZE) 2016 Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS)

−73 kg (1908) −75 kg (1920) −79 kg (1924–1960) −87 kg (1964–1968) −82 kg (1972–1996) −85 kg (2000) −84 kg (2004–2012) −86 kg (2016–Present)

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