Shota_Khabareli

Shota Khabareli

Shota Khabareli

Georgian judoka (born 1958)


Shota Khabareli (Georgian: შოთა ხაბარელი; born 26 December 1958) is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the half-middleweight class.

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Khabareli was a bronze medallist in the 1983 World Championships in Moscow and two times silver medalist in the European Championships; first in Brussels 1979 and again in Rostock 1982. Khabareli also won continental bronze medals in Debrecen 1981 and Paris 1983.

Khabareli was a champion of the international tournaments in Warsaw in 1978 and Hungary in 1979. He was also a silver medalist in Budapest in 1985 and bronze medallist of the Jigoro Kano Cup in Tokyo in 1982.

Khabareli is famous for the knee lift throw,[1] also known in sumo as yagura nage.

References

  1. [1]
    "International Freestyle Judo Alliance - Freestyle Judo - The way Judo ought to be". freestylejudo.org. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015.


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