The Minister congratulated the members of the national team, coaches and federation representatives, including the acting president Giorgi Atebegashvili. At the meeting they talked about the forthcoming World Youth Championship and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

The Georgian national judo team successfully won at the World Championship in Baku and won 3 medals - 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze and took 4th place in the team. It is noteworthy that according to the medals obtained by the boys, Georgian team is just behind Japan and Korea.

Guram Tushishvili (+100kg) returned from Azerbaijan as the World Champion title. After 2014, Georgia celebrated its first World Cup in judo. Tushishvili won all the matches, including the final confrontation with Azerbaijani - Ushangi Kokauri on behalf of Azerbaijan. It should be noted that the captain of our team defeated Azeri Elmar Gasimov of Rio Olympics in the third round. Amiran Papinashvili (-60kg) won the bronze medal with the defeat of the host country Karamat Huseynov. After another defeat of Lasha Shavdatuashvili (-73kg) in the final bloc, he broke into the repetition and lost the first fight.

The Japanese team played the most successful in the World Championship. Japanese gained 8 gold medals in total. Japan's capital Tokyo will host the 2019 world championship.

 

Georgian national team at the Judo World Championship 2018:

-60 kg - Amiran Papinashvili, Lukhum Chkhvimiani

-66kg - Vazha Margvelashvili

-73kg - Lasha Shavdatuashvili

-81kg - Zebeda Rekhviashvili

-90 kg - Beka Gviniashvili, Ushangi Margiani

-100 kg - Varlam Liparteliani

+100 kg - Guram Tushishvili