Best Georgian athletes of 2018 revealed
Georgian weightlifter, winner of the world and European championship, Lasha Talakhadze is the athlete of the year.
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Georgian weightlifter, winner of the world and European championship, Lasha Talakhadze has been named as the athlete of the year by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport last night at an award ceremony held at Rustaveli Theatre.
Weightlifter Rezi Davitadze was named the youngest athlete of the year.
Nino Odzelashvili, winner of the world and Europe championship in Sambo, won the title of the best female athlete of 2018.
Irma Khetsuriani, Georgian wheelchair fencer has been named the best paralympic female athlete of 2018 – she has won the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup five times.
Zviad Gogochuri won the title of paralympic male athlete. He is the winner of the world cup in Para Judo.
The best sportsman in non-olympic sports is Levan Saginashvili, winner of the world and European armwrestling championship.
Eliso Bedoshvili, an international category referee in artistic gymnastics, has been named the best referee of 2018.
The title of the best coach of the year was won by Giorgi Asanidze, former weightlifter and the coach of Georgia’s national weightlifting team.
The award for the Recognition of 2018 was won by the Georgian Wrestling Federation – Georgian wrestling was included on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO this year.
The National Olympic committee of Georgia has summarised the year of 2018 activities and announced the best athletes of the year.
Georgian judo athlete Zviad Gogochuri has won gold medal at Judo World Cup in Atyrau, kazakhstan.
Nino Odzelashvili has won the gold medal in the up to 72 kg weight category among women at the World SAMBO Championships in Bucharest, Romania which started on November 9 and ends today.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has met with the only Georgian athlete fighting in the highest league of the American Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) under the Georgian flag.
Georgian wheelchair fencer Irma Khetsuriani has won her fourteenth gold medal in Sharjah, UAE, where the first world cup of 2019 as part of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games is underway.
Georgian judoka Lukhum Chkhvetiani has made a history by winning the World Championships Senior 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. Watch Chkhvetiani defeate an Uzbek Sharafuddin Lutfillaev in -60kg category.
The Georgian national Paralympic judo team has returned from the Egyptian Pyramids International Championships with four medals. Giorgi Gamjashvili, who competed in the 73 kg weight category and defeated his compatriot Bachuki Shelia in the final, took the ultimate prize of the tournament, with Shelia taking home the silver.
Arm wrestler Levan Saginashvili on Saturday defeated high-ranking Canadian opponent Devon Larratt with an “absolute advantage” to claim victory in the prestigious King of the Table 4 tournament in Dubai.