Otar Tushishvili

Otar Tushishvili is a Georgian freestyle wrestler, born on 14 June 1978 in Gori in the Shida Kartli region. Olympedia lists him at 177 centimetres and 66 kilograms and records four Olympic appearances for Georgia. He placed 15th in the lightweight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 21st in the welterweight class in 2004, then won the bronze medal in the men's welterweight freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and finished 12th at the 2012 Summer Olympics. At world level he took silver at the 2006 World Championship and bronze at the 2005 and 2007 championships in the 66 kilogram freestyle class, and he added European Championship bronzes in 1999 and 2001. Olympedia also credits him with a bronze at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir.