English: 76-year-old Georgian swimmer Henri Kuprashvili won six gold and one silver medals at the World Winter Swimming Championships, which took place in Slovenia on January 23-28, 2023.

Thanks to his achievement in the 75+ age category, Kuprashvili became the first Georgian world champion in swimming in the era of the country's independence. The success follows the athlete’s breaking of a Guinness record last year in his crossing of the Dardanelles with his hands and feet bound, in the traditional Colchian swimming style. In the effort, Kuprashvili covered 12 kilometres in three hours and 15 minutes, from the port of Eceabat on the eastern shore of the Gelibolu Peninsula, to the village of Kepez, located south-west from the starting point and on the opposite side of the strait.

Kuprashvili is also a historian and a Full Professor of Political Sciences at the Georgian Technical University.