Parnaoz Chikviladze

Parnaoz Chikviladze was a Georgian judoka whose career was in the 1960s. Born on 14 April 1941, he won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division, the over 80 kilogram class, at the 1964 Summer Olympics. At the European Judo Championships he took a gold medal in 1965 and silver medals in 1964, 1965 and 1966, and in 1964 he was also European champion in the team event. His career ended early when he died in a car accident in Moscow on 14 June 1966, at the age of 25, which also meant he never competed in the Soviet judo championships, a competition that was only first held in 1973. His name is carried in the international judo, Olympic and multi-sport statistics archives, which record his Olympic and European results.