Wrestler Ramaz Zoidze into bronze medal match at Olympics
Ramaz Zoidze will face his competitor for men's 67 kg Greco-Roman bronze on Wednesday. Photo via Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia.
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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.
The 25-year-old competing in the men's 67 kg division won against Cuba's Ismael Borrero Molina in the Last 16 round, before repeating the result with Aker al Obaidi of the Refugee Olympic Team in the quarterfinal.
Zoidze was then defeated in the semifinal hosted at Makuhari Messe Hall by Iran's Mohammadreza Geraei, and proceeds to the bronze match set for Wednesday in the Japanese capital.
Two other wrestlers in the Greco-Roman category - Giorgi Melia and Lasha Gobadze - were eliminated from the competition after conceding defeats to Hungary's Alex Gergo Szoke and Uzbekistan's Rustam Assakalov respectively.
Tuesday's schedule also saw Giorgi Mujaridze take to the field in athletics, with the Georgian ending up 15th in the shot put competition. Lasha Gulelauri similarly closed the day near the bottom of the result table in triple jump.
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.
Georgian Greco-Roman heavyweight wrestler Iakob Kajaia has reached the finals at Tokyo Olympics by defeating Chile’s Acosta Fernandez in the semifinals. Kajaia defeated Russian Sergei Semenov in the quarterfinals, and before that he beat Finnish Elias Kuosmanen. In the finals Georgian Kajaia will wrestle against 38 years old Cuban Lopen Nunez who has won the Olympic gold medal three times in his career.
Georgian weightlifter Anton Pliesnoi has claimed a bronze medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Pliesnoi, 24, has completed the competition with a combined result of 387 kg, including 177 kg in snatch and 210 kg in clean and jerk the 96 kg category.
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.
Lasha Bekauri, the first gold medal-winner for Georgia at the 2021 Summer Olympic Games, has said he intends to use the prize money from the state to bring his mother and grandmother back from work in emigration.
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.
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.
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.
Freestyle wrestler Geno Petriashvili claimed a silver in the men's 125 kg final at the Summer Olympics on Friday, giving Georgia its eighth medal a day before competitive fixtures conclude in Tokyo.
Georgian freestyle wrestler Luka Kurtanidze has claimed the world championship among veterans for the fourth time in a row. At the World Wrestling Championship held in Loutraki, Greece, the 49-year-old Kurtanidze beat Russian, Latvian, and Iranian opponents.