Petriashvili at the 2016 Olympics
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Personal information | |
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Born |
Gori, Georgia, Georgia |
1 April 1994
Height | 198 cm (6 ft 6 in) |
Sport | |
Sport | Wrestling |
Event(s) | Freestyle |
Club | Dynamo Tbilisi |
Coached by | Nugzar Skhireli (personal) Revaz Kobakhidze (national) |
Geno Petriashvili (გენო პეტრიაშვილი; born 1 April 1994) is a Georgian heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He won the European title in 2016 as well as five bronze medals: at the world championships in 2013 and 2015, at the European championships in 2013, at the European Games in 2015, and at the Rio Olympics in 2016. He served a six-months suspension in 2014 after testing positive for the non-performance enhancing Preductal, which Petriashvili had been taking regularly since being kidnapped as a child.