Career
He is a three-time Olympian, and a four-time medalist for his division at the European Wrestling Championships (1997, 1998, 2001, and 2008). Bichinashvili made his official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed second in the three-person preliminary pool of the men"s 85 kg class, against Macedonia"s Mogamed Ibragimov, and Japan"s Tatsuo Kawai. Shortly after the Olympics, Bichinashvili moved to his another adopted nation Germany, where he applied and obtained a dual citizenship in order to compete internationally for wrestling.
Eight years after competing in his first Olympics, Bichinashvili qualified for his third time in men"s 84 kg class, as a 33-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing seventh from the 2007 World Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to Georgia"s Revaz Mindorashvili, with a three-set technical score (1–4, 2–0, 3–1), and a classification score of 1–3. He progressed to the bronze medal match, but narrowly lost the medal to Russia"s Georgy Ketoev, with a three-set technical score (0–3, 2–0, 2–2), and a classification point score of 1–3.