Company: Georgian National Olympic Committee
Country: Georgia
Section: OLYMPIC SPIRIT
Discipline: Athletics
Director: Giorgi Toradze
Editing: David Katsarava
Photo: Zurab Ortavidze
Voice Off: Tengiz Khilava
Producer: Giorgi Toradze
Synopsis:
The extraordinary life of Viktor Saneyev, the legendary Georgian athlete who won three Olympic golds and a silver in the triple jump, and who was named Georgia’s best male athlete of the twentieth century. This is a story of the boy of poor family Tom Georgian seaside town Sokhumi who managed to overcome all the obstacles and become a great athlete. His life was very hard after he retired from the sport. He had to immigrate to Australia and live on odd job for a long time. He died in Australia in 2022 where he is buried.