birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
tbilisi , georgian ssr 77 kg lb 0 on 1.83 0 on 22 march 1980 zurab khomasuridze
 freestyle zurab khomasuridze
zurab khomasuridze

zurab khomasuridze -lrb- ; born march 22 , 1980 in tbilisi -rrb- is a retired georgian swimmer , who specialized in freestyle events .
he is a multiple-time georgian swimming champion and record holder in the 200 , 400 , and 1500 m freestyle .
khomasuridze qualified for the men 's 200 m freestyle at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , by receiving a universality place from fina in an invitation time of 1:57.06 .
he participated in the first heat against two other swimmers igor erhartić of serbia and montenegro and 14-year-old ruslan ismailov of kyrgyzstan .
he saved a second spot over a young ismailov by a 3.51-second margin in 1:58.02 .
khomasuridze failed to advance into the semifinals , as he placed fifty-eighth overall in the preliminaries .
khomasuridze is currently a head coach for the georgian swimming team .
he also trained with irakli revishvili and irakli bolkvadze , both of whom succeeded him and later competed at the 2008 and 2012 summer olympics , respectively .
