Mikheil Kajaia

Mikheil Kajaia (Georgian: მიხეილ ქაჯაია; Serbian Cyrillic: Михаил Каџаја; Serbian Latin: Mihail Kadžaja) is a Georgian-born Serbian Greco-Roman wrestler. [1]

Mikheil Kajaia
Personal information
Born21 July 1989 (1989-07-21) (age 31)
Tskaltubo, Georgian SSR, USSR
Height1.87 m (6 ft 1 12 in)
Weight97 kg (214 lb)
Sport
Country Georgia (2010–2017)
 Serbia (2017–)
SportWrestling
Event(s)Greco-Roman

Career

Representing Georgia, Kajaia participated in the 2013 Summer Universiade and he won the bronze medal in the 96 kg event. [2] He was part of the Georgian Wrestling Team at the 2015 European Games but lost to Italian Daigoro Timoncini at the 1/8 finals. [3]

In 2017, Kajaia started to wrestle for Serbia. He entered the 2017 European Wrestling Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia but defeated by the Olympic champion Artur Aleksanyan in the second round. [4] One year later, he won his first European medal, a silver, in Kaspiysk, Russia. He reached the final at 97 kg but lost to Artur Aleksanyan again with a score of 0-7. [5] At the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain, he lost to the eventual champion, Frenchman Mélonin Noumonvi, in the semifinals but still successfully grabbed a bronze medal. Kajaia later won his first world bronze medal in Budapest, Hungary. In the bronze-medal match, Kajaia faced former world champion and home favourite Balázs Kiss. Kajaia trailed 0-3 after the first period but managed a turnaround by winning on criteria with a four-point arm throw. [6]

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