fullname coach club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title name style
apostolos taskoudis avtandil bzalava san georgios wrestling club serres , central macedonia , greece 66 kg lb 0 on 1.73 0 on 22 april 1985 apostolos taskoudis
 apostolos taskoudis freestyle
apostolos taskoudis

apostolos taskoudis -lrb- ; born april 22 , 1985 in serres , central macedonia -rrb- is an amateur greek freestyle wrestler , who competed in the men 's welterweight category .
taskoudis finished sixth in the 66-kg class when greece hosted the 2004 summer olympics in athens , and has also captured three gold medals in the 74-kg division in beach wrestling at the world championships -lrb- 2012 to 2014 -rrb- .
throughout his sporting career , taskoudis has been training for san georgios wrestling club in his native serres , under his personal coach avtandil bzalava .
taskoudis qualified for the greek squad , as a 19-year-old teen , in the men 's welterweight class -lrb- 66 kg -rrb- , when his nation hosted the world to the 2004 summer olympics in athens .
he filled up an entry by the international federation of association wrestling and the hellenic olympic committee , as greece received an automatic berth for being the host nation .
amassed the home crowd inside ano liossia olympic hall , taskoudis opened the prelim pool with a marvelous victory over india 's ramesh kumar by a 10 -- 8 verdict , before losing his succeeding match 6 -- 12 to armenia 's zhirayr hovhannisyan .
despite a single defeat , taskoudis secured his spot for the medal rounds due to the most number of technical points he obtained from the pool .
he was overpowered by eventual olympic champion elbrus tedeyev of ukraine in the quarterfinal match 2 -- 6 , and then followed it with a 4 -- 6 setback in a playoff against japan 's kazuhiko ikematsu for a fifth-place finish , dropping him to sixth .
