Amiran Papinashvili (born 17 June 1988) is a Georgian judoka. [1] [2] He won gold medal in 2013 European Judo Championships, silver in 2014 European Judo Championships and bronze in 2012 European Judo Championships. [3] He also competed for Georgia at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [4]
Ilias Iliadis is a Georgian-born Greek judoka. He was named the 2014 Greek Male Athlete of the Year.
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Amiran Totikashvili is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics. There he won the bronze medal in the extra lightweight class. He is the current trainer of the Turkmenistan National Judo team.
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Bekir Özlü is an Olympian Georgian-born Turkish judoka competing in the 60 kg division. The 1.62 m tall sportsman is a member of Kocaeli BB Kağıt SK. Bekir Ozlu née Betkil Shukvani was born in Georgia but changed to Turkey in 2015. For Georgia he won European medals U17 and U20 and silver at the Senior European in 2011 in Istanbul. He won the European team title with Georgia in 2007. He won World Cups since 2011 and the Grand Slam of Rio in 2012. Ozlu won gold at the European Open in Minsk in 2017. He captured a bronze medal at the Grand Prix in Zagreb in 2017. Ozlu took gold at the Grand Prix The Hague in 2017.
Volodymyr Soroka is a Ukrainian judoka. He won the gold medal in the under–73 kg category at the 2009 European Judo Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, and the silver at the 2012 European Championships. At the 2012 Olympics, he reached the third round.
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Beka Gviniashvili is a Georgian judoka who became European Junior Champion in 2013, 2014, and 2015 and won the World Junior Championships in 2013 in Ljubljana and in 2015 in Abu Dhabi and EYOF in 2011. He also became the U23 European Championship in 2016 in Tel Aviv. With the Georgian Juniors, he won the World and European titles. He is a promising rising judoka. He placed 5th at the 2015 World Judo Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan after losing in the bronze medal final against one of his colleagues Varlam Liparteliani. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's -100 kg category where he placed 7th. He took bronze at the 2017 European Judo Championships U90kg.
Vazha Margvelashvili is a Georgian judoka. He won gold medal at the 2016 European Judo Championships and silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's 66 kg event.
Yanislav Gerchev is a Bulgarian judoka. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's 60 kg event, in which he was eliminated in the third round by Amiran Papinashvili.
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