Documented path
Born in Kutaisi, Georgia, Tsirekidze competed in the mens 90kg judo division. He won the World Championship gold medal in 2007, which was Georgias first on the judo world stage, and followed it with a silver at the 2007 European Championship. He won the Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the mens 90kg category. He was awarded Georgias highest honour, the Order of Merit, after his 2007 World Championship victory.
Born in 1982 in Kutaisi, Georgia, competing in mens 90kg judo.
Retired judoka, Olympic and World champion.
Where the conditions came from
Each is placed on a −1 to 3 scale from documented evidence, and the three are never added together. A combined total would rank Irakli Tsirekidze against other people. Held apart, they explain why this path ran differently from another one—which is the only comparison this project supports.
The marble itself
+1Tailwind
What capability, drive, or early skill is documented in the person rather than their surroundings?
World Championship gold at 25 and Olympic gold at 26 — Georgia's first judo world champion. Described as the hardest worker in his team, highly competitive. Elite athlete but achievements came at 25-26, not showing prodigy-level early indicators.
Where it was dropped
0Neither way
What money, family standing, network, or permission was already in place before the work began?
Born in Kutaisi, Georgia, during the Soviet transition period. Little publicly documented about family background. Grew up during Georgia's economic and social upheaval following independence in 1991. No evidence of family wealth or domain connections.
The shape of the track
+2Tailwind
What place, timing, institution, or peer group made the next step available?
Kutaisi judo tradition — hometown of Olympic champion Davit Khakhailishvili who inspired every child. Coach Omar Merabishvili (who also coached Khakhailishvili) provided elite mentorship. Georgian national wrestling style provided base for judo. Strong national judo program.
A −1 is a documented headwind, not a missing value; a 0 means the sources record nothing notable either way. Annotation confidence: Medium. These are analyst readings of what the sources record, not measurements of merit, talent, or effort. The twenty-two scored dimensions remain available inside the deeper research detail.
What moved through the conditions
Silence in a biography is not evidence that perseverance was absent.
This is an unchosen opening or condition in the record, not an estimate of how much luck caused the outcome.
Strongest documented signals: Family financial platform, Elite institution pipeline, Frontier geography.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Strongest observed levers: Scarce skill depth, Concentration intensity, Domain proximity.
Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
The timeline below shows the sequence of work and transitions around the selected early milestone. It is evidence of a path, not proof that every step was necessary.
Notable and widely recognized within the domain. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Irakli Tsirekidze's worth or future potential.
Question four · where did the leverage come from?
Each non-zero lever gets a best-supported origin, evidence signals, and confidence. Unresolved is the honest default when the biography cannot distinguish self-built, advantage-enabled, earned, external, or mixed.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Irakli Tsirekidze's outcome attributable to any origin.
Structural luck, Encounter luck, Event luck, Outcome variance can change every arrow in the path. This successful-only dataset cannot observe the near-identical paths that did not break through, so luck stays visible and unscored.
Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."
Limited public information is available about Tsirekidzes family background. He was born in Kutaisi, Georgia, and resided there throughout his career. Georgia has a strong judo and wrestling tradition, providing a national sports culture that supports combat sports development.
Not documented.
Tsirekidzes World Championship gold in 2007 at 25 represents Georgias first judo world title, demonstrating exceptional skill depth. His Olympic gold at 26 in 2008 confirms elite status. Georgias judo tradition and national sports system provided domain proximity. His rapid achievement of both World and Olympic gold within one year shows peak concentration intensity and timing.
advantage confidence: Medium · source count: 3 · audit: source_verified · status: subagent_researched_beta