Shalva Gadabadze

Shalva Gadabadze

Personal information
Nationality	Azerbaijan
Born	(1984-05-30) 30 May 1984 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Residence	Baku, Azerbaijan
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	101 kg (223 lb)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Event(s)	Greco-Roman
Club	Atasport Baku (AZE)
Coached by	Eldshin Dshafarov (AZE)
Medal record Men's Greco-Roman wrestling Representing Azerbaijan World Wrestling Championships 2013 Budapest –96 kg European Championships 2009 Vilnius 84 kg 2011 Dortmund 96 kg 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. He won two bronze medals at the 2009 European Wrestling Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania, and at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Germany. 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. Because his opponent advanced further into the final, Gadabadze was offered another shot at the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts. Unfortunately, he was defeated by China's Ma Sanyi in the first repechage round, with a score of 5–6.

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. 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.

External links

• Profile – International Wrestling Database
• NBC Olympics Profile