born on March 6th 1968, in the Georgian town of Abasha. he began rowing at the age of 15 in the city of poti and trained for 6 years, due to unrest in 1990s, he had to temporarily stop his athletic career, in 1993 he returned in poti and started working as a coach, training young athletes until 2009. during these years he raised many georgian champions, but a devastating incident took place and he got paralised from the waist down which made him step away for a period of time.  

in 2016 he estabilished rowing club called kolxa 2016 and continiued training his athletes, kolxa 2016 won many competitions in georgia and had multiple georgian champions, he is head coach till this day and continiues raising great athletes.

born on March 25th 1963, in the georgian town of Abasha, began studying in Tbilisi Topographic Technical school. He was a member of Tbilisi's athletics team and became two-times Georgian champion in 1985 and 1986.

in Tbilisi, he both competed and coached children, actively contributing to the athletic development of young stundents. afterwards, he returned to his hometown, where for the past 3 years he has served as assistant head coach of Kolxa 2016.