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| Born | 26 December 1958 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | –78 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic Games |  (1980) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Champ. | 
(1983) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Champ. | 
(1979, 1982) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| IJF | 793 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JudoInside.com | 5821 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Updated on 20 June 2023. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shota Khabareli (Georgian: შოთა ხაბარელი; born 26 December 1958) is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the half-middleweight class.
Khabareli was a bronze medallist in the 1983 World Championships in Moscow and two times silver medalist in the European Championships; first in Brussels 1979 and again in Rostock 1982. Khabareli also won continental bronze medals in Debrecen 1981 and Paris 1983.
Khabareli was a champion of the international tournaments in Warsaw in 1978 and Hungary in 1979. He was also a silver medalist in Budapest in 1985 and bronze medallist of the Jigoro Kano Cup in Tokyo in 1982.
Khabareli is famous for the knee lift throw,[1] also known in sumo as yagura nage.
