Georgian freestyle wrestler

Geno Petriashvili (გენო პეტრიაშვილი; born 1 April 1994) is a Georgian heavyweight freestyle wrestler. Petriashvili won his first senior world *le at the Paris 2017 World Championships after defeating rival Taha Akgul by the score of 10-8 in a back-and-forth match. He then took his second world *le at Budapest 2018 World Championships. Petriashvili has also won two bronze medals in 2013 and 2015, and captured the European *le at the 2016 Riga European Championships as well as two bronze medals at the European championships in both 2013 and 2017. He won a bronze medal the Rio Olympics in 2016 and a gold medal the Under 23 years world championships in Poland 2017. 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.

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External links

• Profile
• Geno Petriashvili at United World Wrestling
• Geno Petriashvili at Olympics.com
• Geno Petriashvili at Olympedia