Zurabi Iakobishvili

Zurabi Iakobishvili (; born February 4, 1992) is a Georgian freestyle wrestler and wrestling coach. He is a World Championships gold and three-time bronze medallist, and European Championships gold and two-time bronze medallist. Iakobishvili won the gold medal in the freestyle 65 kg event at the 2017 World Championships and the freestyle 70 kg event at the 2022 European Championships. He is currently the head coach of the Norwegian female national wrestling team.

Iakobishvili won bronze medals in the freestyle 70 kg event at the World Championships in 2018, 2021 and 2022, and the freestyle 65 kg event and freestyle 70 kg event at the 2017 and 2018 European Championships respectively.

Career Iakobishvili competed at his first senior European Championships at the 2016 Championships in Riga, where he placed fifth in the freestyle 65 kg event. He represented Georgia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio and competed in the men's freestyle 65 kg event, where he reached the quarterfinals and placed tenth.

Iakobishvili switched to the 70 kg weight class for the 2018 European Championships in Kaspiysk, where he won a bronze medal. That same year, he won the gold medal in the freestyle 70 kg event at the Tbilisi Grand Prix and Poland Open. In 2019, he placed 13th at the European Championships in Bucharest and fifth at the World Championships in Nur-Sultan in the freestyle 70 kg.

In 2021, Iakobishvili won a bronze medal in the freestyle 70 kg event at the World Championships in Oslo.

In 2022, Iakobishvili began coaching Norwegian freestyle wrestler Grace Bullen and coached her to a silver medal at the 2022 World Championships. Bullen won a silver medal at the 2023 European Championships and a bronze medal at the 2023 World Championships. Iakobishvili coached Bullen to a gold medal at the 2024 European Championships and a bronze medal in the women's freestyle 62 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He became the head coach of the Norwegian female national wrestling team in October 2024.