Zurab Datunashvili
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| Full name | Zurabi Datunashvili | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Georgia | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
18 June 1991 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||
| Style | Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||
| Club | National Club of Georgia[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Coach | Viliam Charazov[1] | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Zurab Datunashvili (Georgian: ზურაბ დათუნაშვილი; born June 18, 1991 in Tbilisi) is a professional 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 2 3 "Zurabi Datunashvili". London 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ↑ "Zurabi Datunashvili". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ↑ "Gegeshidze Won Silver Medal". World Sport Georgia. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 74kg Greco-Roman Quarterfinals". London 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ↑ d'Amato, Gary (5 August 2012). "Provisor eliminated, but not discouraged". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 6 February 2013.