Georgian judoka Beka Gviniashvili (90 kg) will wrestle for bronze medal at Baku Grand Slam. The member of the Georgian team held four fights on the Azerbaijani tatami and won three of them. Gviniashvili defeated Ciril Grossklaus of Switzerland and Firudin Dadashov of Azerbaijan by ippons. In ¼ final the Georgian failed to Noel van Tend of Holland. In repechage semifinal Gviniashvili beat Shahin Gahramanov of Azerbaijan. In the decisive fight the Georgian judoka will wrestle against Walter Facente of Italy.

Today champions and prize winners will also be found out in 100 and +100 kg. Two-two Georgians wrestled in all three weight classes but all of them lost the first round.

In 90 kg Zviad Gogochuri lost to Guillaume Elmont of Holland in 3 minutes and half.

Aleksandre Mskhaladze and Guram Tushishvili wrestled in 100 kg. Mskhaladze lost to Maxim Rakov of Kazakhstan by waza-aris. Tushishvili failed to Zafar Makhmadov of Russia by ippon.

In +100 kg Rostom Khakhaleishvili failed to El Mehdi Malki of Morocco and Giorgi Zakariadze – to Ushangi Kokauri of Azerbaijan.

Today Irine Leonidze (+78 kg), the only female judoka of the Georgian team, wrestled on tatami. However, in the first round she failed to Xiaonan Qi of China.

The final block will start at 16:00.

Otar Maglakelidze