| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Weight Class: | 78 kg |
| Worlds Rank: | 3 |
| Worlds Year: | 1983 |
| Regionals Type: | EU |
| Regionals Rank: | 2 |
| Regionals Year: | 1979 |
| Regionals Year2: | 1982 |
| Regionals Weight2: | Men's 78 kg |
| Olympics Rank: | 1 |
| Olympics Year: | 1980 |
| Olympics Weight: | Men's 78 kg |
| Updated: | 20 June 2023 |
Shota Khabareli (Georgian: შოთა ხაბარელი; born 26 December 1958) is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the half-middleweight class.
Khabareli was a bronze medallist in the 1983 World Championships in Moscow and two times silver medalist in the European Championships; first in Brussels 1979 and again in Rostock 1982. Khabareli also won continental bronze medals in Debrecen 1981 and Paris 1983.
Khabareli was a champion of the international tournaments in Warsaw in 1978 and Hungary in 1979. He was also a silver medalist in Budapest in 1985 and bronze medallist of the Jigoro Kano Cup in Tokyo in 1982.
Khabareli is famous for the knee lift throw,[1] also known in sumo as .