Kakhi Kakhiashvili

Kakhi Kakhiashvili is a Georgian-Greek weightlifter, born on 13 July 1969 in Tskhinvali, who is one of only six weightlifters to have won three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games. He won his first at Barcelona in 1992, competing for the Unified Team, and then as a citizen of Greece at Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney in 2000. He won three senior World Championships, in 1995, 1998 and 1999, was twice a silver medalist at the Senior World Championships and set seven world records. He was named Greek Male Athlete of the Year in 1996 and 1999. Colleagues knew him for lifting exactly what a competition required. The English Wikipedia lead supports these facts.