Georgian women’s under-18 national basketball team wins European Championship
Salome Svani was named most valuable player of the Division C tournament. Photo: Georgian Basketball Federation.
Tweet 
Share
The Georgian women’s national U18 basketball team on Sunday earned top honours of this year’s Women’s European Championship Division C in Andorra, claiming the gold medal of the competition after recording a 61:37 win against Malta.
Lika Kvirkvelia led the scoring for her team with 18 points with Natali Chutkerasjvili and Salome Svani both scoring 12, Ana Namgaladze adding 11.
Photo: The Georgian Basketball Federation
Salome Svani was named most valuable player of the Division C tournament.
The Championship was held between July 26-31 in Andorra.
The International Basketball Federation has awarded the Georgian Basketball Federation for “excellent organisation” of the FIBA Under 20 European Basketball Championship for Division B, the GBF announced on Monday.
Georgia’s Under 20 national basketball team opened their participation in the Division B of the FIBA U20 European Basketball Championship with a victory over Austria at the new Tbilisi Arena complex on Saturday.
Young Georgian-American athlete Sandro Mamukelashvili has been named Player of the Year by the Big East Conference of the American college basketball.
Georgian basketball player Elene Iluridze, 21, has joined the United States UT Tyler Women's basketball programme after competing for her home country of Georgia in high level international competition across the world.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday congratulated the women's chess team of the country on winning the silver medal at the 44th Chess Olympiad.
Georgia’s national basketball team opened their participation in the Acropolis International Basketball Tournament with a defeat by Türkiye in the Greek capital city of Athens on Wednesday.