Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

competed in the Summer Olympic Games

Summer Olympic Games

The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event, occurring every four years, organized by the International Olympic Committee. Medals are awarded in each event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition that...

 as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

in Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Previously, Georgian athletes competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, was a joint team consisting of twelve of the fifteen former Soviet republics. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania competed separately. The team has been informally called the Commonwealth of Independent States team, though Georgia was...

.

Bronze

• Soso Liparteliani
  Soso Liparteliani
  Soso Liparteliani is an Georgian judoka. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Middleweight category, together with Cho In-Chul.He is silver medalist european championat in Athens 1993...
  
   — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
• Eldar Kurtanidze
  Eldar Kurtanidze
  Eldar Kurtanidze, also known as Luka Kurtanidze is a Georgian wrestler. He has been a senior professional freestyle wrestler since 1992. He was a bronze medallist in both the Men's Freestyle 90 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics and also Men's Freestyle 97 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He also...
  
   — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight (90 kg)

Archery

Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of four events. The events were held in neighboring Stone Mountain.All archery was done at a range of 70 metres. 64 archers competed in each the men's individual and women's individual competitions. They began with a 72-arrow ranking round...

In its debut Olympic archery competition, Georgia sent only Unified Team

Unified Team

The Unified Team was the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The IOC country code was EUN, after the French name, Équipe Unifiée...

-era veteran archer and quarterfinalist Khatouna Kurivichvili. In Atlanta, she was defeated in the first round.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Khatouna Kurivichvili — Round of 64, 49th place (0-1)

Athletics

Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 44 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 20 by women. There were a total number of 2053 participating athletes from 191 countries.-Men:...

Women's Shot Put

• Elvira Urusova
• Qualification — 17.69m (→ did not advance)

Boxing

Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

-Qualification:The following tournaments were used as qualification tournaments for boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.Africa* All-Africa Games in Harare, Zimbabwe from September 13 to September 23, 1995* Qualification Tournament in April/May? 1996...

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

• Koba Gogoladze
  Koba Gogoladze
  Koba Gogoladze is a professional boxer from Georgia. He competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics as a lightweight, losing on points in the quarterfinals to Leonard Doroftei.-Olympic career:...
  
  
  1. First Round — Defeated Ri Chol (North Korea), 17-9
  2. Second Round — Defeated Julio Gonzalez Valladares (Cuba), 14-9
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Leonard Doroftei
     Leonard Doroftei
     Leonard Dorin Doroftei is a Romanian-Canadian former boxer, the WBA Lightweight World Champion from 5 January 2002 to 24 October 2003.-Amateur highlights:...
     
      (Romania), 8-17

Men's Light Welterweight (63,5 kg)

• Besiki Wardzetashvili
  1. First Round — Lost to Sergey Bykovsky
     Sergey Bykovsky
     Sergey Bykovsky is a boxer from Belarus, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Light Welterweight division at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Vejle, Denmark, alongside Bulgaria's Radoslav Suslekov....
     
      (Belarus), 11-11 (referee decision)

Men's Welterweight (67 kg)

• Tengiz Meskhadze
  1. First Round — Lost to Fernando Vargas
     Fernando Vargas
     Fernando Vargas is a retired Mexican American boxer and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. His nicknames include "Ferocious", "The Aztec Warrior" and "El Feroz"...
     
      (United States), 4-10

Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

• Akaki Kakauridze
  1. First Round — Defeated Ricardo Araneda
     Ricardo Araneda
     Ricardo Anibal Araneda Aviles is a cruiserweight boxer from Chile, who won the silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he lost in the first round...
     
      (Chile), 10-3
  2. Second Round — Lost to Mohamed Bahari
     Mohamed Bahari
     Mohamed Bahari is a boxer from Algeria.Bahari won the bronze medal in the middleweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta...
     
      (Algeria), 5-8

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

• Georgi Kandelaki
  Georgi Kandelaki
  Georgi Kandelaki is a former boxer and current boxing administrator...
  
  
  1. First Round — Defeated Thompson García
     Thompson García
     Thompson García is a former boxer from Ecuador, competing in the heavyweight division. He was born in Esmeraldas.-Amateur:...
     
      (Ecuador), abandoned
  2. Second Round — Defeated Woiciech Bartnik (Poland), 6-1
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Félix Savón
     Félix Savón
     Félix Savón Fabre is a Cuban heavyweight boxer, a winner of three gold medals at the Olympic Games. Savón is considered a legend in amateur boxing and has won six world titles....
     
      (Cuba), 4-20

Diving

Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, four diving events were contested during a competition that took place at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, from 26 July to 2 August, comprising a total of 121 divers from 40 nations.-Men:-Women:-Medal table:...

Women's 3m Springboard

• Nana Kazarashvili
• Preliminary lane

— 191.49 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Judo

Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics

This page shows the final results of the Judo Competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.Kye Sun-Hui surprised spectators by winning gold in the women's extra-lightweight event. She had obtained a wildcard entry to the Games.-Men's events:...

Men's extra-lightweight (60 kg)

• Giorgi Vazagashvili
  Giorgi Vazagashvili
  Giorgi Vazagashvili is a Georgian judoka. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Lightweight category, together with Girolamo Giovinazzo of Italy....
  
  

Men's half-lightweight (65 kg)

• Giorgi Revazishvili

Men's lightweight (71 kg)

• Vladimeri Dgebuadze
  Vladimeri Dgebuadze
  Vladimeri Dgebuadze is a Georgian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...
  
  

Men's half-middleweight (78 kg)

• Soso Liparteliani
  Soso Liparteliani
  Soso Liparteliani is an Georgian judoka. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Middleweight category, together with Cho In-Chul.He is silver medalist european championat in Athens 1993...
  
  

Men's middleweight (86 kg)

• Giorgi Tsmindashvili
  Giorgi Tsmindashvili
  -Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...
  
  

Men's half-heavyweight (95 kg)

• Movlud Lobjanidze

Men's heavyweight (+95 kg)

• David Khakhaleishvili
  David Khakhaleishvili
  David Khakhaleishvili is a retired heavyweight Georgian judoka.He was expected to defend his heavyweight Olympic title at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia in a highly anticipated match against the reigning world champion, David Douillet...
  
  

Modern pentathlon

Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Team events were eliminated from the 1996 Olympics.-Medal Summary:Individual:-Final Results:-References:*...

Men's Individual Competition

• Vakhtang Yagorashvili — 5226 pts (→ 20th place)

Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of ten weight classes, for men only. The range of each weight class was adjusted by 1–4 kg for these Games, marking the first redefinition of Olympic weightlifting weight classes since they were introduced in...

Men's Light-Heavyweight

• Bidzina Mikiashvili
• Final — 160.0 + 200.0 = 360.0 (→ 9th place)