Mirian Tsalkalamanidze
Appearance
![]() Tsalkalamanidze (center) at the 1956 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 20 April 1927 Kondoli, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 3 August 2000 (aged 73) Telavi, Georgia | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Freestyle wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Spartak Tbilisi | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mirian Tsalkalamanidze (Georgian: მირიან ცალქალამანიძე, 20 April 1927 – 3 August 2000) was a Georgian flyweight freestyle wrestler. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1956 Olympics and won a gold medal in the 52 kg division. At the world championships he placed third in 1954 and second in 1957.
Tsalkalamanidze initially trained in chidaoba, the Georgian traditional wrestling, and changed to freestyle wrestling only in 1951, aged 24. He won the Soviet freestyle championships in 1954 in 1956, placing third in 1955.[1]
References
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Categories:
- 1927 births
- 2000 deaths
- Olympic wrestlers of the Soviet Union
- Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Soviet male sport wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
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