(3RD PLACE U23 MEN'S 200M CANOE SPRINT)
(WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS SZEGED 2014)
(3RD PLACE MEN'S C-1200M CANOE SINGLE)
(WORLD CUP DUISBURG 2016)
(5TH PLACE MEN'S C-1200M OLYMPIC GAMES RIO 2016)
(ORIGINAL FUEL)
(ZAZA NADIRADZE - CANOE - GEORGIA)
In this city, there have always been the rowers,
because there is a lot of water
and there used to be large facilities
and there were boats, and was everything,
everybody went, everybody rowed.
And now there is no facilities, there's nothing.
The place where we are training now,
it's not even a "facility", we do not know who it belongs to.
Maybe someone will come, show documents, say,
"This is mine. Come on, get out of here," and that's it.
It's gone.
We just walked in there and that's it.
As you see we don't have an opportunity to
have a good gym.
And we have to come up with everything by ourselves,
to make it.
As before, also come up with various exercises.
In the mountains, we were running uphill.
We were trying who rises higher.
I like to make things with my own hands,
because it's interesting, when you're doing by yourself,
and it works out well. It is very good.
I can't just sit at home.
I like to do car repairs.
I buy old cars, fix it, drive for a while,
and then sell or swap it.
Sometimes we have to construct all the trainers and to weld,
if required, with a welding machine.
And there's one project.
Here is winter, you see, it's cold,
but I want to make a trainer for myself, for canoeing.
If you buying trainer somewhere it costs 3000 euros,
and also, to bring it there
you need to spend about 1,000 euros more.
Personal coach, so I started training with him.
He is no longer a coach for us,
we have already called him "Uncle Valiko".
So we are like a family now.
Earlier he had his results too, but he was kayaker
and now he doesn't know modern technics very well for a canoe.
He helps psychologically, and that's it.
(ZAZA'S HOME, MTSKHETA)
In 2008, I already began to watch how rowers are rowing.
All these professional rowers? How do they row?
I looked at one technique, "Oh, OK, they row well,
"they win - I also wanted to row this way and win."
You should have a sense of how the boat goes faster.
Then I realized that everyone has his own technics.
The most important is that
this year I got the license in this sport
because nobody has ever taken in the Olympic
in this sport from Georgia.
Particularly in canoeing, nobody at all.
Now, when I showed such a result,
more people came to know, and it was said on the TV too,
all saying, "Ah, this is the boy who..."
(ARAGVI RIVER, MTSKHETA)
Of course, after such a result
children have become interested,
because many people came to know me,
many people became aware and they also began to rejoice,
both kids and adults.
They watched "Oh, Zaza, here he is."
They know me and they can also do the same that I did.
They just need to train, there is nothing impossible.