Georgian judoka Amiran Papinashvili (60 kg) won three meetings at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and made through to semifinal. In the first meeting, he defeated Canadian Sergio Pessoa, then Bulgarian Yanislav Gerchev and in ¼ final Japanese Naohisa Takato.

In semifinal, Papinashvili will face 3-time European champion (2012, 2014, 2015) Beslan Mudranov of Russia.

The evening meetings will start at 22:30 Tbilisi time.

Otar Maglakelidze, special correspondent of worldsport.ge in Rio de Janeiro