Rostom Abashidze

Rost'om (Rostom) Omeris Abashidze (Georgian: როსტომ ომერის ძე აბაშიძე, Russian: Ростом Омарович Абашидзе, born 23 February 1935) is a retired light-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia.

Competing for the Soviet Union he won the world title in 1958, 1962 and 1963 and placed fifth at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

[1][2] Abashidze first trained in swimming and association football before changing to wrestling.

After graduating from secondary school in Batumi he moved to Tbilisi, where he studied at the Georgian Technical University and later defended a PhD in construction engineering.

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