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.