Wheelchair fencer Nina Tibilashvili wins silver at Tokyo Paralympics
The Tokyo Paralympic Games started on August 24 and will end on September 5. Photo: Interpressnews.ge.
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Georgian wheelchair fencer Nina Tibilashvili has won silver at the Tokyo Paralympic Games after losing 7:15 in the final to China’s Jing Bian.
Tibilashvili competed in a tense match before the final with the bronze medal-winner of the Rio Paralympics, the nine-time prize-winner of the World Championships, Ukraine’s Eugenia Bruce.
Tibilashvili managed to defeat her opponent with a score of 15 to 12.
The Tokyo Paralympic Games started on August 24 and will end on September 5.
This year’s Georgian delegation involves 14 athletes in six types of sports.
Over a dozen Georgian athletes have departed for Tokyo to compete in the upcoming Paralympic Games, aiming to improve on the medal count from the 2016 competition with an expanded squad.
Georgia's national female team, comprised of Irma Khetsuriani, Nino Tibilashvili and Gvantsa Zadishvili, has claimed gold at the Wheelchair Fencing World Championship in the Polish capital of Warsaw.
Georgia's Nina Tibilashvili followed the title-winning efforts of her friend and compatriot Irma Khetsuriani on Wednesday by claiming gold at the Wheelchair Fencing U17/U23 World Championships in Warsaw.
Wheelchair fencer Irma Khetsuriani has added another gold medal to her collection at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Warsaw, Poland, with two other members of the Georgian team also competing at the event.
Georgian judokas Ina Kaldani and Revaz Chikoidze have won silver at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili congratulated both athletes on taking silver.
Olympic and Paralympic champions and medalists as well as winners of World and European championships will be admitted to the State University of Physical Education and Sports without exams, the Georgian Ministry of Education and Science has announced. Georgia finished the Tokyo Olympic Games with eight medals out of which two were gold, five silver and one bronze.
Georgian female fencers have won gold, silver, and two bronze medals at Wheelchair Fencing World Cup hosted in Pisa, Italy. The first Georgian female wheelchair fencer Irma Khetsuriani won a gold medal.
Georgian para-athletes earned five medals over two days at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup and European Taekwondo Championship, with the haul including two gold medals.