Category: Sport

Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling to run for mayor of Gori for Georgia's ruling party

July 31, 2021 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Dream has nominated Olympic champion Vladimer (Lado) Khinchegashvili as a candidate for mayor of Gori in the October local elections. Following the results of the previous elections in this city, the 30-year-old athlete, who has not yet made a public announcement to leave the sport, will most likely win this election. Lado Khinchegashvili … Read more

Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze sets three world records in one day

September 28, 2019 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–“Lasha Talakhadze is the strongest man walking the planet… maybe ever in sports,” exclaimed the commentator after the Georgian giant set three World Records in a single day at the World Weightlifting Championships 2019 in Pattaya, Thailand on Friday. With 220 kg in snatch, 264 kg in clean and jerk and astonishing 484 in … Read more

Georgian weightlifter breaks three world records

April 14, 2019 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Olympic champion Lasha Talakhadze broke three world records at the European Weightlifting Championships in Georgia on Saturday. All three records broken by ‘the strongest man in the world’ were set by himself. The 25-year-old Georgia only needed four lifts to set records on snatch, clean and jerk, and total, and gave up the … Read more

Georgian wins sumo wrestling championship in Japan

January 28, 2018 by DFWatch staff

Levan Gorgadze (Tochinoshin) is the third European in history to win the highest division of sumo wrestling.

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 30-year-old Georgian unexpectedly won a sumo wrestling championship in Japan. Levan Gorgadze clinched his first ever victory in the highest division, Makuuchi.

Gorgadze, who competes under the ring name (shikona) Tochinoshin,

Six far right activists arrested during anti-gay protest at football federation

November 1, 2017 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–Six far right activists were arrested Tuesday night at the office of the Georgian Football Federation’s (GFF) in Tbilisi, as they protested the wearing of a rainbow colored LGBT armband by one of the national team members.

The right wing nationalists demand that the federation

Georgian world boxing champion arrested in the US

June 9, 2017 by DFWatch staff

Avtandil Khurtsidze, WBO middleweight title holder — WBO world middleweight champion Avtandil Kurtsidze.

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian world boxing champion has been arrested in the United States along with a martial arts practicioner, also from Georgia, for alleged ties to a Russian crime syndicate.

Avtandil Khurtsidze, who currently holds a World Boxing Organization middleweight title,

Georgian judo team takes two gold at Düsseldorf Grand Prix

February 27, 2017 by DFWatch staff

beka_gviniashvili2 — Beka Gviniashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian judo team performed brilliantly at Düsseldorf Grand Prix with two gold medals and second place ahead of Russia and France.

The team from Japan won the competition with five gold medals.

Vazha Margvelashvili (-66 kg) and Beka Gviniashvili (-90 kg)