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Akakios Kakiasvilis

Personal information

Birth name

Kakhi Kakhiashvili

Nationality

Georgian / Greek

Born

13 July 1969 (age 55)
Tskhinvali, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

Height

1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Sport

Weightlifting

Medal record

Men's weightlifting

Representing Georgia
World Championships
	1993 Melbourne	–91 kg
European Championships
	1993 Sofia	–91 kg
	1994 Sokolov	–91 kg
Representing the Unified Team
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	–90 kg
European Championships
	1992 Szekszard	–90 kg
Representing Greece
Olympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	–99 kg
	2000 Sydney	–94 kg
World Championships
	1994 Istanbul	–91 kg
	1995 Guangzhou	–99 kg
	1998 Lahti	–94 kg
	1999 Athens	–94 kg
European Championships
	1995 Warsaw	–91 kg
	1996 Stavanger	–99 kg
	1998 Riesa	–94 kg
	1999 Lacoruna	–94 kg

Kakhi Kakhiashvili (Georgian: კახი კახიაშვილი, Greek: Ακάκιος "Κάχι" Κακιασβίλης; born 13 July 1969 in Tskhinvali, Georgian SSR, USSR) is a Georgian-Greek weightlifter, one of only six weightlifters to have won three consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games. He won his first at Barcelona 1992, competing with the Unified Team, and later as a citizen of Greece at Atlanta 1996 and in Sydney 2000.^[1] He won three Senior World Championships (1995, 1998, 1999), was twice a silver medalist at the Senior World Championships (1993 and 1994), and set seven world records during his career.^[2] He was named the 1996 and 1999 Greek Male Athlete of the Year.

Kakhiashvili was born in Tskhinvali, Georgia, to a Georgian father and a Greek mother, Maria Lamprianidi. He is renowned in weightlifting circles for his uncanny ability to lift exactly what was required to win. Dubbed as a "computer" by some competitors, he also had the ability to block out everything that was not relevant to the competition at hand.

Career

At the 1992 Summer Olympics lifting for the Unified Team in the 90 kg category, he went against the instructions of his coach Vasily Alexeev, the all-time weightlifting great. His coach wanted his Russian teammate Sergey Syrtsov to win the contest and did not let Kakhiashvili try to lift heavier to beat the Russian. During the snatch portion of the competition, it looked like Sergey Syrtsov was going to win, with a 12.5kg lead over Kakhiashvili from an Olympic Record 190.0kg snatch. During the clean & jerk portion of the competition Kakhiashvili lifted 225.0kg on his second attempt, giving him a total of 402.5kg, a full 10.0kg less than Syrstov. Kakhi ordered 10kg more to be put on the bar in order to beat his Russian teammate. He successfully lifted the 235.0kg clean and jerk,^[3] giving him a total of 412.5kg. Event though his total tied Syrstov, Kakhiashvili won the gold medal due to virtue of a lighter bodyweight,^[4] (89.25kg vs. 89.45kg) this performance established his right to the title of one of the sports elite lifters.^[5]

Major results

^[6]^[7]

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
Year	Venue	Weight	1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank	Total	Rank
Olympic Games
1992	Barcelona, Spain	–90 kg	170.0	175.0	177.5	2	220.0	225.0	235.0 =WR	1	412.5 =OR
1996	Atlanta, United States	–99 kg	180.0	185.0	~~187.5~~	3	220.0	225.0	235.0 WR	1	420.0 WR
2000	Sydney, Australia	–94 kg	180.0	185.0	~~187.5~~	2	220.0	—	—	3	405.0
2004	Athens, Greece	–94 kg	~~180.0~~	180.0	~~185.0~~	4	~~220.0~~	~~220.0~~	~~220.0~~	—	—	—
World Championships
1993	Melbourne, Australia	–91 kg	175.0	~~180.0~~	180.0		200.0	215.0	225.0		402.5
1994	Istanbul, Turkey	–91 kg	172.5	177.5	~~180.0~~		210.0	220.0	~~230.0~~		397.5
1995	Guangzhou, China	–99 kg	~~182.5~~	182.5	~~187.5~~		225.0	227.5	~~230.0~~		410.0
1998	Lahti, Finland	–94 kg	175.0	180.0	~~182.5~~		215.0	220.0	—		400.0
1999	Athens, Greece	–94 kg	180.0	185.0	188.0 WR		222.5	225.0	~~230.5~~		412.5 WR^[8]^[a]
European Championships
1992	Szekszárd, Hungary	–90 kg	175.0				225.0				400.0
1993	Sofia, Bulgaria	–91 kg	180.0				222.5				402.5
1994	Sokolov, Czech Republic	–91 kg	180.0				200.0				400.0
1995	Warsaw, Poland	–91 kg	180.0				228.5 WR				407.5
1996	Stavanger, Norway	–99 kg	165.0	170.0	~~175.0~~		210.0	222.5	—		392.5
1998	Riesa, Germany	–94 kg	165.0	170.0	172.5	4	207.5	~~210.0~~	~~212.5~~		380.0
1999	A Coruña, Spain	–94 kg	172.5	177.5	~~180.0~~		217.5	222.5	225.0		402.5
2003	Loutraki, Greece	–94 kg	167.5	~~175.0~~	177.5	5	—	—	—	—	—	—
2004	Kyiv, Ukraine	–94 kg	172.5	~~177.5~~	177.5	6	~~215.0~~	215.0	~~220.0~~	4	392.5	4
Junior World Championships
1988	Athens, Greece	–82.5 kg	170.0				NA			NA	NA	NA
1989	Fort Lauderdale, United States	–90 kg	170.0				225.0 JWR				395.0

Notes

^a Not a world record at the time of the competition, became a world record when IWF decided to eliminate the world standards from the list of World Records on 24 June 2008.^[9]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Akakios Kakiasvili". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
^ Akakide Kakhiashvilis @ Lift Up Hall of Fame. Lift Up. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
^ "Kakhi Kakhiashvili 1992 Olympics Barcelona Gold". All Things Gym. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
^ "Olympic Profile". Olympic.org. Retrieved 18 March 2019.^{[dead link‍]}
^ Randall J. Strossen. (21 July 2009). Kakhi Kakhiashvili: David Versus Goliath in the Weightlifting World. IronMind. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
^ "Kakiasvilis Akakios (GRE)". Database Weightlifting (in German).
^ "World Championships Juniors 1997-2007 and Statistics" (PDF). pp. 84, 100.
^ "International Weightlifting Federation (IWF.NET)". Archived from the original on 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2014-11-16. iwf.net. Retrieved on 2009-06-13
^ "IWF eliminates World Standards from World Record list". International Weightlifting Federation. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2017.

External links

Akakide Kakhiashvilis at Lift Up
Akakide Kakhiashvilis at the Lift Up Hall of Fame
Akakide Kakhiashvilis – Hall of Fame at Weightlifting Exchange
Akakios Kakiasvili at Olympedia (archive)
Akakios Kakiasvilis at Olympics.com
Kahi Kahiasvilli at the Hellenic Olympic Committee

Olympic Champions in Weightlifting – Men's Middle Heavyweight

90 kg (1952–1992)
91 kg (1996)
94 kg (2000–2016)
96 kg (2020)

v t e Olympic Champions in Weightlifting – Men's First Heavyweight
1980: Ota Zaremba (TCH) 1984: Rolf Milser (FRG) 1988: Pavel Kuznetsov (URS) 1992: Viktor Tregubov (EUN) 1996: Akakios Kakiasvilis (GRE)
100 kg (1980–1992) 99 kg (1996)