Greatest achievement in country's Olympic history: Georgia finishes Tokyo Games with 8 medals
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced each gold medal winner will receive a money prize of one million GEL from the state. Photo: ipress.ge.
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The Georgian Olympic team has finished the Tokyo Olympic Games with a record number of medals in the country’s independence - two gold, five silver and one bronze.
This year 35 athletes represented Georgia across 13 disciplines at the Tokyo Olympics.
Georgia claimed its first gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games on July 28 when 21-year-old judoka Lasha Bekauri won the final in the men’s -90 kg category against Germany’s Eduard Trippel.
???????????????????????? Olympic team's record-breaking tally of medals at #Tokyo2020. 8 out of 35 athletes won 2 gold, 5 silver and 1 bronze meaning that approx. 1 out of 4 Georgian athletes won medal at #TokyoOlympics. Great result for the country of 3.7 mln.
— Nikoloz Samkharadze (@Samkharadze79) August 8, 2021
Georgia claimed its first gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games on July 28 when 21-year-old talent Lasha Bekauri scored a win in a closely contested 90 kg final against Germany’s Eduard Trippel.
Georgia's record-breaking weightlifting star Lasha Talakhadze won his second gold medal after lifting a combined, world record-breaking 488 kg on August 4 at the Summer Olympics.
The 27-year-old athlete entered the spotlights at the Tokyo International Forum arena into the men’s +109kg weight class competition on August 4. He lifted a world-record 223 kg in the snatch and 265kg in the clean & jerk for a total of 488 kg.
Talakhadze won his first Olympic gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
A 26-year-old Georgian judoka Vazha Margvelashvili claimed the country’s first silver medal at the summer Olympic Games. He defeated Japanese Abe Hifumi in the -66 kg category.
This is the first Olympic victory for Vazha Margveashvili. He previously claimed gold, bronze and silver medals in European championships in 2016, 2019 and 2021.
Georgian Judoka Lasha Shavdatuashvili, 29, won silver in a lengthy nine-minute match with one of judo’s top fighters, Japan’s Shohei Ono on July 26.
Gogita Arkania, the first Georgian world champion in Karate was carrying the country’s flag at the closing ceremony of the Summer Tokyo Olympic Games. Photo: Georgian National Olympic Committee/Facebook.
Lasha Sahvdatuashvili is the only Georgian judoka (-73 kg) who has won European, World and Olympic gold medals. He has won three Olympic medals so far: gold at the 2012 Olympic Games, bronze in 2016 and silver now, at the Summer Olympic Games.
Greco-Roman wrestler Iakob Kajaia earned silver in the 130 kg division final for men at the Summer Olympic Games on August 2. Georgian wrestler lost the final against three-time Olympic champion Mijain Lopez Nunez with a score of 0:5 and claimed a silver medal.
Georgian Judoka Guram Tushishvili, 26, contested final against Lukas Krpalek (the Czech Republic) with the latter winning by Ippon after three minutes and 47 seconds of the fixture.
Tushishvili is the winner of last year’s Dusseldorf Grand Sam.
Free wrestler Geno Petriashvili claimed a silver in the men’s 125 kg final on August 6, a day before competitive fixtures concluded in Tokyo.
Petriashvili, who also has a bronze medal from Rio 2016 Olympic Games and two World Championship titles, lost to Gable Stevenson from the United States in a final battle.
On the 8th day of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Anton Pliesnoi, the current European champion in the -96 kg category, won a bronze medal
Pliesnoi lifted 177 kg in the snatch and 210 kg in the clean and jerk an, combining a total of 387 kg.
Georgia places 33th in overall medal standings among the 86 countries that participated in this year’s Games.
Prime Minister Irakli Garbashvili announced each gold medal winner will receive a money prize of one million GEL from the state.
Take a look at the infographics showing Georgia's results during seven Summer Olympic Games (excluding the Tokyo Olympic Games) from 1992 to 2016. Georgia gained independence in 1991, that is why Barcelona 1992 is included into the visualisation, but Georgia's Ministry of Sport underlines that Georgia's real, 'official' Olympic history started from Lillehammer Winter Olympics in 1994.
