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 also won continental bronze medals in Debrecen 1981 and Paris 1983.

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,[1] also known in sumo as yagura nage.

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