Amiran Totikashvili

Amiran Totikashvili is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union and won the bronze medal in the extra lightweight class at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was born on 21 July 1969 in Martkopi and was one of the leading extra-lightweight judoka of the late 1980s. He was European champion twice, in 1988 in Pamplona and in 1989 in Helsinki, took bronze at the 1990 European Championships in Frankfurt, and won international tournaments in Paris in 1990 and the Goodwill Games in Seattle. Olympedia adds that he was world champion in 1989, that he retired from competition at 22 after the fall of the Soviet Union, and that he later worked as a judo coach in Georgia. In March 2019 it became known that he would train the Turkmenistan judo team for the 2020 Summer Olympics.