Varlam Liparteliani, member of the Georgian judo team , will wrestle for bronze medal at “Grand Slam” which is under way in Tokyo. In semifinal the Georgian judoka (90 kg) lost to Masyu Beiker of Japan.

Before the semifinal Liparteliani beat Hirotaka Kato of Japan and Aaron Hildebrand of Germany by ippons. In “bronze final” the Georgian will face Shohei Shimowada of Japan.

Today Aleksandre Mskhaladze (100 kg), Levan Matiashvili and Giorgi Zakariadze also wrestled on the Japanese tatami but all of them lost the first round.

The final block will start at 11:00 Tbilisi time.

Otar Maglakelidze