Koba Gogoladze

Koba Gogoladze is a Georgian boxer, born on 7 January 1973 in Poti, who competed as a lightweight at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He beat Ri Chol of North Korea by 17 points to 9 in the first round and Julio Gonzalez Valladares of Cuba by 14 to 9 in the second, then lost the quarterfinal to Leonard Doroftei of Romania by 17 to 8, finishing among the last eight. He turned professional in 1999 and fought mainly in England, once in Cyprus, where he won the minor World Boxing Federation International lightweight title, and twice in Georgia. After two years away he moved to Philadelphia and met stiffer opposition, losing first to Almazbek Raiymkulov and later being stopped in the tenth round by Scotland's Alex Arthur in a bout for the interim WBO title. A first round stoppage by Ji-Hoon Kim closed his career.