Roman Rurua

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Roman Vladimirovich Rurua (Georgian: Script error: No such module "Lang"., born 25 November 1942) is a retired featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. Between 1966 ad 1970 he was undefeated internationally and won four consecutive world titles. At the 1971 World Championships he injured his back and placed sixth. Domestically, he won Soviet titles in different weight divisions in 1963–1965, 1967, 1970 and 1971. In 1972 he retired from competitions, graduated from Georgian Polytechnic Institute, and started to work as an engineer. In 1988 he co-founded the political organization Sporting Georgia, and in 1999–2003 was a member of Parliament of Georgia. Rurua also served as vice-president of the Georgian Wrestling Federation and was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2010.[1][2]

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