Giorgi Sardalashvili

Giorgi Sardalashvili
Personal information
Born (2003-05-26) 26 May 2003 (age 21)
OccupationJudoka
Height165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Country Georgia
SportJudo
Weight class‍–‍60 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games5th (2024)
World Champ.Gold (2024)
European Champ.R16 (2023)
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  Georgia
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Abu Dhabi ‍–‍60 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Doha ‍–‍60 kg
IJF Grand Slam
Gold medal – first place 2022 Abu Dhabi ‍–‍60 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Tbilisi ‍–‍60 kg
Silver medal – second place 2023 Tbilisi ‍–‍60 kg
Silver medal – second place 2024 Tashkent ‍–‍60 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Zagreb ‍–‍60 kg
World Juniors Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Olbia ‍–‍60 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Guayaquil ‍–‍60 kg
European Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Luxembourg ‍–‍60 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF50970
JudoInside.com135310
Updated on 28 July 2024

Giorgi Sardalashvili (born 26 May 2003) is a Georgian judoka.[1] He won the gold medal in the men's 60 kg event at the 2024 World Judo Championships held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

In 2020, he took first place in the 50 kg weight category at the European Cup among young people in Antalya. A year later, he managed to win the first place in the 60 kg weight category at the European Cup (youth) held in Prague. Took second place at the European Junior Championships (60 kg) held in Luxembourg. Took first place at the World Juniors Championships (60 kg) held in Olbia, Italy. In 2022, he managed to take first place at the European Cup (youth) held in Málaga, Spain. At the tournament, Sardalashvili defeated Alejandro Prieto Simancas (Spain), Ricardo Pires (Portugal), Florian Boecker (Germany) and Luis Barroso Lopez (Spain) with ippons, and in the final he managed to defeat Japan's Keiji Tsujioka with waza-ari. In the same year, he took second place at the Tbilisi Grand Slam. At the 2022 World Juniors Championships, which was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Sardalashvili took second place.

He is a winner of a 2022 Zagreb Grand Prix bronze medal. He participated in the tournament from the second round, where he defeated Tajik Muamadsoleh Kuvatov. Which was followed by the defeat of Brazilian Matheus Takakisa at the next stage. After losing to French Maxim Merlin in the quarterfinals with waza-ari, he defeated Turkmen Hukaberdi Yumaev in the repechage, giving him a ippon. In the fight for the Bronze medal, he defeated the Spanish judoka Francisco Garrigós by ippon.

He won one of the bronze medals in the men's 60 kg event at the 2023 World Judo Championships held in Doha, Qatar.[2]

Sardalashvili took 5th place at 2024 Summer Olympics.

Medals

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2022
1st place, gold medalist(s) Grand Slam Abu Dhabi
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Grand Slam Tbilisi
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Grand Prix Zagreb

References

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  1. ^ IJF profile
  2. ^ Berkeley, Geoff (7 May 2023). "Tsunoda completes hat-trick as Garrigos strikes gold on first day of Doha 2023". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
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