Besik Aslanasvili

{{Short description|Greek wrestler (born 1976)}}

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| fullname = Besik Aslanasvili

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| birth_place = Tbilisi, Georgian SSR,
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| style = Freestyle

| club = Atlas Kallitheas

| coach = Michail Charachura

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{{MedalSport | Men's freestyle wrestling}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}

{{MedalGold|2001 Tunis|63 kg}}

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Besik Aslanasvili ({{langx|el|Μπέζικ Ασλανασβίλι}}; born October 22, 1976, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is a retired amateur Greek freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's lightweight category.{{cite sports-reference|title = Besik Aslanasvili|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/bezik-aslanasvili-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418091829/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/bezik-aslanasvili-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 29 July 2014}} Holding a dual citizenship to compete internationally, Aslanasvili has been selected to the nation's Olympic wrestling team when Greece hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and also picked up a gold medal in the 63-kg division at the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia.{{cite news|script-title=el:Με 18 παλαιστές στο ολυμπιακό ταπί της Αθήνας|trans-title=18 wrestlers in the Olympic mat for Athens|language=Greek|url=http://www.tovima.gr/sports/article/?aid=141249|publisher=To Vima|date=24 March 2002|accessdate=13 June 2014}}{{cite news|script-title=el:Ελαμψαν Κουτσιούμπας και απουσίες|trans-title=Flashed Koutsioumpas and absences|language=Greek|url=http://www2.rizospastis.gr/page.do?publDate=30/12/2001&id=2248&pageNo=15&direction=-1|publisher=Rizospastis|date=30 December 2001|accessdate=13 June 2014}} Throughout his sporting career, Aslanasvili trained full-time for Atlas Kallitheas Wrestling Club in Athens, under personal coach Michail Charachura.

Aslanasvili qualified for the naturalized Greek squad in the men's lightweight class (60 kg), when Greece welcomed 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.{{cite news|last=Abbott|first=Gary|title=Olympic Games preview at 60 kg/132 lbs. in men's freestyle|url=http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=10291|work=USA Wrestling|publisher=The Mat|date=15 July 2004|accessdate=29 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607003431/http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=10291|archive-date=7 June 2014|url-status=dead}} Amassed the home crowd inside Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, Aslanasvili opened the prelim pool with a shut out 5–2 victory over neighboring Albania's Sahit Prizreni, before losing to Iran's Masoud Mostafa-Jokar by a rigid 3–2 decision. Placing second in the pool and eleventh in the final standings, Aslanasvili's performance was not enough to put him further into the medal rounds.{{cite web|title=Wrestling: Men's Freestyle 60kg|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/wrestling/results/3532636.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=15 August 2004|accessdate=30 September 2013}}{{cite news|script-title=el:Τέταρτος ο Καρντάνοφ|trans-title=Kardanov finished fourth|language=Greek|url=http://www.antenna.gr/news/Sports/article/90466/tetartos-o-karntanof|publisher=ANT1 Group|date=28 August 2004|accessdate=28 July 2014}}