Zviad Gogotchuri (Georgian: ზვიად გოგოჭური, born 30 October 1986) is a visually impaired Georgian Paralympic judoka. He won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the 90 kg category. This marked his and Georgia's inaugural Paralympic medal.[1]
After arriving to Japan for the 2021 Summer Paralympics, he was arrested for assaulting a security guard at a Tokyo hotel on 16 August 2021.[2]
References
- ^ Paralympic medal tally Archived 23 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine rio2016.com Retrieved on 19 September 2016
- ^ Paralympian from Georgia arrested over assault at Tokyo hotel. Mainichi. 16 August 2021
External links
- Zviad Gogotchuri at the International Judo Federation
- Zviad Gogotchuri at JudoInside.com
- Zviad Gogotchuri at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Zviad Gogotchuri at Paralympic.org
- Zviad Gogotchuri at The-Sports.org
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