Making history: Georgia wins first ever mixed team medal at World Judo Championship
Georgia on Sunday won its first ever mixed team medal at the World Judo Championship in Doha, taking the bronze medal with the third place at the tournament. Photo: 1TV.ge
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Georgia on Sunday won its first ever mixed team medal at the World Judo Championship in Doha, taking the bronze medal with the third place at the tournament.
The International Judo Federation said the third place fixture between Georgia and Germany had gone “back-and-forth, with the teams taking turns to win the contests”.
That was until the very last contest, where Eteri Liparteliani threw her counterpart with tsubame-gaeshi for waza-ari and held on to give Georgia a 4-2 victory and their first ever mixed teams medal”, the body said in its summary of the final.
The result followed other medal-scoring performances by Georgian athletes at the competition that ran between May 7-14.
The 2022 European Champion Luka Maisuradze on Thursday defeated his compatriot Lasha Bekauri, the reigning Olympic Champion, in an all-Georgian final in the men’s under 90kg category.
In turn, that result came after Tato Grigalashvili earned his second World Champion’s title in a row after winning the -81 kg final.
Georgian judoka Varlam Liparteliani claimed gold at the 2023 Tashkent Grand Slam on Sunday, earning the top step of the podium in the -100 kg weight category of the tournament.
Georgia’s 2022 European Champion Luka Maisuradze on Thursday defeated his compatriot Lasha Bekauri, the reigning Olympic Champion, in an all-Georgian final in the men’s individual under 90kg category at the World Judo Championships in Doha.
Georgian judoka Tato Grigalashvili claimed his second World Judo Champion’s title in a row after winning the -81 kg category final at the World Championships in Doha on Wednesday.
Seven Georgian wrestlers are set to compete at the Antalya Judo Grand Slam, scheduled to run between Friday and Sunday in Turkey, the Georgian Judo Federation said on Tuesday.
Georgia’s national armwrestling team claimed 10 gold, six silver and two bronze medals at the European Championships in Laukaa, Finland, as the competition closed on Sunday.
Georgia’s national Greco-Roman wrestling team claimed 11 medals at the Dumitru Pirvulescu & Vasile Iorga Under-20 international tournament in Romania on the weekend, earning themselves the first place in the team ranking with the result.
The Georgian judo team won nine medals, including three gold, two silver and four bronze, at the European Judo Championships Veterans, held from June 8 to June 10 in Slovenia, the Georgian Judo Federation said.
The Georgian national judo team won six medals, including one gold, one silver and four bronze medals, at the 2023 Judo World Masters in Hungary’s capital city of Budapest.
The Georgian national trampoline team has claimed a bronze medal with their first-ever podium finish at the World Trampoline Championships in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, the United Georgian Gymnastics Federation said on Monday.