Manuchar Kvirkvelia

Manuchar Kvirkvelia was born on October 12, 1978, in Ozurgeti, Guria, a town in then-Soviet Georgia.

He first appeared on the international mat at the age of 24 at the European Championship in the lightweight category in Seinäjoki, Finland, where he won the Silver Medal, finishing second to Turkey's Şeref Eroğlu.

However, he won the Gold Medal after winning the World Championship in Créteil, France, defeating his old rival Eroğlu and 1996 Polish Olympic champion Ryszard Wolny.

He took part in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, where he would be disqualified after starting a brawl with Şeref Eroğlu, to whom he lost with a crushing score of 1–11.

[7] When the party merged with the Strength Is in Unity electoral bloc led by the United National Movement, he was nominated by the coalition as candidate for the Guria Majoritarian District.

He ran against 13 candidates, including incumbent MP Khatuna Gogorishvili (European Georgia) and GD's Vasil Chigogidze.