Georgia’s Ilia Sulamanidze wins gold medal at 2022 Judo World Masters competition
The Georgian national team finished the Jerusalem Masters with two gold and one bronze medal. Photo: Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia/Facebook
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Georgian wrestler Ilia Sulamanidze claimed a gold medal at the 2022 Judo World Masters competition in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Sulamanidze defeated his Dutch rival Simeon Catharina in the -100 kg category of the competition with a warning in extra time and brought the second gold medal for the Georgian national team.
Earlier today, another Georgian athlete and European Champion Luka Maisuradze defeated the World Champion, Uzbek Davlat Bobonov, winning a bronze medal in the -90 kg category.
The Georgian national team finished the Jerusalem Masters with two golds and one bronze medal. The first gold medal was collected by the World and European Champion Tato Grigalashvili on Wednesday in the - 81 kg category after defeating his Azerbaijani rival Saeid Mollaei.
Georgian wrestler Tato Grigalashvili claimed a gold medal at the 2022 Judo World Masters competition in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Georgian judokas claimed two gold and one bronze medals on Saturday at the European Judo Championships Sarajevo 2022 hosted in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Georgian judoka Beka Gviniashvili won the Zagreb Grand Prix on Sunday by defeating his Brazilian rival Rafael Macedo in the 90- kg category of the competition.
The Georgian National Olympic Committee on Wednesday unveiled the list of this year’s best athletes, with the Georgian wrestler Tato Grigalashvili getting the main prize - the Best Athlete of 2022. Grigalashvili earned the gold medal at the World Judo Championships in Tashkent in October.
The International Judo Federation on Tuesday published the final ranking of the year, with Georgian wrestler Ilia Sulamanidze listed at the top of the -100 kg weight category of the world’s leading athletes.
Georgian wrestler Ilia Sulamanidze claimed a gold medal at the Judo Grand Prix in Portugal on Sunday. Sulamanidze defeated his Japanese rival Arai Dota, throwing the competitor twice with waza-ari in the -100 kg category final.