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Gocha Tsitsiashvili

Gocha Tsitsiashvili is an Israeli Greco-Roman wrestler who won the 2003 world championship and competed in 3 Olympic Games.

born 19732003 world Greco-Roman wrestling titleCompeting in 3 Olympic GamesCoaching Israel's national wrestling team

Born: 7 November 1973, Tbilisi
Occupation: amateur wrestler

Gocha Tsitsiashvili was born in 1973 in Tbilisi

Tsitsiashvili was born on November 7, 1973, in Tbilisi, in Soviet Georgia. He began wrestling as a member of the Soviet team. Several relatives are also wrestlers, including his cousin Yakov Menasherov and his brother-in-law Henri Papiashvili.

He moved to Israel in 1994 and won silver at the European Championships in Athens that year. In 1995 he took silver at the World Championships in Atlanta and bronze at the European Championships. He wrestled for Hapoel Be'er Sheva under coach Yakov Masin.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics he was Israel's only wrestler and finished fifth. He placed sixth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In 2003 he won the world title in Créteil, France, by defeating Ara Abrahamian.

At the 2004 Athens Olympics he beat Mélonin Noumonvi but lost to European champion Alexei Mishin and did not reach the quarterfinals. He retired soon after the Games. As of 2008 he coached Israel's national wrestling team.