Second medal for Georgia at Olympics, Nikoloz Basilashvili into Last 16
Lasha Shavdatuashvili conceded the men's 73 kg final to local favourite Shohei Ono at the venerated Nippon Budokan arena. Photo: Getty Images/via olympics.com.
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Georgian athletes have two medals after three days of competition at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, while tennis player Nikoloz Basilashvili has reached the Last 16 round in the Japanese capital.
The silver earned by Lasha Shavdatuashvili on Monday, after his men's 73 kg judo final against local favourite Shohei Ono, follows the one earned by Vazha Margvelashvili on Sunday, to bring the national tally to two medals at the competition.
The result made Shavdatuashvili the first Georgian to earn three medals at Olympic Games while competing for the independent state. The wrestler took gold at the 2012 Games in London and bronze in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
On his part, Basilashvili proceeded to the Last 16 round after defeating Italy's Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 at Ariake Tennis Park earlier on Monday, with the match ending after two hours and 42 minutes.
In other fixtures of the day, boxing contests saw defeats for Sakhil Alakhverdov (48-52 kg section) and Giorgi Kharabadze (69-75 kg), losing to China's Jianguan Hu and Fanat Kakhramonov respectively.
Eter Liparteliani celebrated wins in women's 57 kg judo fixtures at Nippon Budokan arena against Diassonema Mucungui of Angola and Theresa Stoll of Germany, before she conceded the quarterfinal to France's Sarah Leonie Cysique.
Liparteliani won her subsequent repechage contest against Poland's Julia Kowalczyk in Session 6 of the day, but was on the losing side of the bronze fixture with Tsukasa Yoshida of Japan.
Georgian judoka Vazha Margvelashvili has claimed the country’s very first silver medal at the summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili says Margvelashvili has made whole country proud.
Georgian female freestyle swimmer Mariam Imnadze, who is one of the 34 athletes competing at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, has tested positive for Covid-19. Imnadze thus will not be able to participate in the Olympics that kicked off in Tokyo yesterday.
Sandro Bazardze, Georgia’s one and only fencer at the Tokyo Olympics has entered the semi-finals by handing a defeat to his Korean rival Sanguk Oh in sabre.
Georgia's late Olympic athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili was remembered among fellow competitors who died in competition, as the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo officially launched on Friday.
Georgia's Eskerkhan Madiev is in the quarterfinals of the boxing competition at the Summer Olympic Games, while Tato Grigalashvili, winner of the Doha World Judo Masters earlier this year, is out of judo competition in Tokyo.
Georgia has its first gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games after Lasha Bekauri scored a win in a closely contested 90kg final against Germany's Eduard Trippel on Wednesday.
Guram Tushishvili claimed a third silver - and a fourth medal overall - for the Georgian representation at the Summer Olympic Games after ending up second in the men's 100+ kg judo final in Tokyo on Friday. Tushishvili contested the final against Lukas Krpalek of the Czech Republic on Mat 1 of Nippon Budokan arena, with the latter winning my Ipon after three minutes and 47 seconds of the fixture.
Greco-Roman wrestler Iakob Kajaia earned a silver in the 130 kg division final for men at the Summer Olympic Games on Monday, bringing Georgia the sixth and latest medal in Tokyo.
Wrestler Ramaz Zoidze is into the match for the Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal after fixtures on Tuesday in Tokyo where he scored two wins, while four other athletes from Georgia also competed.
Georgian judoka Eter Liparteliani has claimed bronze at the Paris Grand Slam in the under 57 kg category. The International Judo Federation (IJF) says Liparteliani, 22, has ‘confirmed that she will be one of the strong competitors of the category in the years to come’.