Amiran Papinashvili a member of Georgian National Judo Team took the 5th place at Grand slam and gained 60 rating points. In quartet final he wrestled in 60 weight category against Uzbek Rishod Sobirov, who is current world champion. Unfortunately Papinashvili could not manage to win over him.
Papinashvili started competition form the second circle. He awarded of waza-ari against Finn Juho Reinval and won over him, then he beat Chinese A Lamus easily and lost with German Tobias Englmayer in 1/4final. Betkil Shukvani finished competing at Grand Slam in 1/8final. He lost with Armenian Hovhannes Davtyan. Before that he managed to beat rep from Saudi Arabia and won over Pavel Petrovsk of Czech Republic in two minutes.
Today, champions and prize winners will be found out in 66 and 73 weight categories. Georgian team does not have participant in 66 weight category, as for 73 two judokas have already lost chance of becoming champion. Nugzar Tatalashvili (73 kg) won over Jew Palelashvili but lost with Tajik Rasul Bokiev.
For Tengiz Paposhvili (73 kg) South Korean Von-Yun Kim became obstacle. Before 1/8final he managed to beat two opponents – Nigerian Abbas Salihu and Belgian Dirk Van Tichelt.
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