Vladimer Tchanturia
Encyclopedia
Vladimer Chanturia is a Georgian
boxer
who competed in the Heavyweight (91 kg) division at the 2000 Summer Olympics
and won the bronze medal
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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...
boxer
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
who competed in the Heavyweight (91 kg) division at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
and won the bronze medal
Olympic medalists in boxing
This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in boxing from 1904 to 2008.-Light flyweight:*1968 - : up to 48 kg.-Flyweight:*1904: up to 105 lb *1920-1936: up to 112 lb *1948-1964: up to 51 kg...
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Amateur highlights
- 1996 competed at the 1996 Junior World Championships in Havana, Cuba as a Light Heavyweight. Result was:
- Lost to Khodor Zaher RSC-3
- 2000 won the bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney as a Heavyweight. Results were:
- Defeated Mustafa Mahmoud Amrou (Egypt) RSCI-4
- Defeated Ruslan ChagaevRuslan ChagaevRuslan Chagaev born October 19, 1978 in Andijan, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union) is an Uzbekistani former WBA heavyweight boxing champion of Tatar ethnicity...
(Uzbekistan) PTS (18-12) - Lost to Sultan IbragimovSultan IbragimovSultan-Ahmed Magomedsalihovich Ibragimov, is a retired professional boxer and a former WBO heavyweight champion. He is of Avar Dagestani Muslim descent...
(Russia) PTS (4-19)