country birth_place birth_date article_title name retired
georgia tbilisi , georgian ssr , soviet union 15 january 1969 besarion tsintsadze
 besarion tsintsadze 1995
besarion tsintsadze

besarion `` besa '' tsintsadze -lrb- , born january 15 , 1969 -rrb- is a georgian former competitive figure skater .
he is the 1993 karl schäfer memorial bronze medalist .
he qualified for the free skate at three european championships -lrb- 1993 , 1994 , and 1995 -rrb- and one world championship -lrb- 1994 -rrb- .
after retiring from competitive skating , tsintsadze became a skating coach in the united states , working with ice hockey players .
he married julija Ļašenko , a former pair skater who won bronze at the 1988 world junior championships .
