Shota Khabareli

Shota Khabareli

Personal information
Occupation	Judoka
Sport
Country	Soviet Union
Sport	Judo
Weight class	‍–‍78 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games	Gold (1980)
World Champ.	Bronze (1983)
European Champ.	Silver (1979, 1982)
Medal record Men's judo Representing Soviet Union Olympic Games Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow ‍–‍78 kg World Championships Bronze medal – third place 1983 Moscow ‍–‍78 kg European Championships Silver medal – second place 1979 Brussels ‍–‍78 kg Silver medal – second place 1982 Rostock ‍–‍78 kg Bronze medal – third place 1981 Debrecen ‍–‍78 kg Bronze medal – third place 1983 Paris ‍–‍78 kg
Updated on 20 June 2023

Shota Khabareli (Georgian: შოთა ხაბარელი; born 26 December 1958) is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the half-middleweight class. Khabareli was a bronze medallist in the 1983 World Championships in Moscow and two times silver medalist in the European Championships; first in Brussels 1979 and again in Rostock 1982. Khabareli also won continental bronze medals in Debrecen 1981 and Paris 1983. Khabareli was a champion of the international tournaments in Warsaw in 1978 and Hungary in 1979. He was also a silver medalist in Budapest in 1985 and bronze medallist of the Jigoro Kano Cup in Tokyo in 1982. Khabareli is famous for the knee lift throw, also known in sumo as yagura nage.

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