Roman Rurua

Roman Rurua

Rurua at the 1968 Olympics
Personal information
Born	25 November 1942 (1942-11-25) (age 74) Mukhurcha, Martvili Municipality, Georgia[1]
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Sport	Greco-Roman wrestling
Club	Kolmeurne Tbilisi
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo -63 kg 1968 Mexico City -63 kg World Championships 1966 Toledo -63 kg 1967 Bucharest -63 kg 1969 Mar del Plata -62 kg 1970 Edmonton -68 kg

Roman Rurua (Georgian: რომან რურუა, born 25 November 1942) is a Georgian retired featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. Between 1966 ad 1970 he was undefeated internationally and won four consecutive world titles. At the 1971 World Championships he injured his back and placed sixth. Domestically, he won Soviet titles in different weight divisions in 1963–1965, 1967, 1970 and 1971. In 1972 he retired from competitions, graduated from Georgian Polytechnic Institute, and started to work as an engineer. In 1988 he co-founded the political organization Sporting Georgia, and in 1999–2003 was a member of Parliament of Georgia. Rurua also served as vice-president of the Georgian Wresting Federation and was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2010.^[1][2]

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