Rio Summer Olympics 2016

Geno Petriashvili wins bronze in men’s frestyle 125kg wrestling

By | August 21st, 2016|Categories: Sport|Tags: , |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Geno Petriashvili from Georgia won bronze in men’s freestyle 125 kg wrestling in the Rio Olympics on Saturday. This is Georgia’s seventh medal in the games: two gold, one silver and four bronze medals. In the final, Petriashvili won against Tervel Dlagnev […]

Georgia’s Khinchegashvili wins Olympic gold in freestyle wrestling

By | August 20th, 2016|Categories: Sport|Tags: , |

Vladimer Khinchegashvili. (1tv.ge) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Vladimer Khinchegashvili won gold in men’s freestyle 57 kg wrestling at the Rio Olympics on Friday. Georgia now has two gold medals in the games. In the final, Khinchegashvili faced Japan’s Rei Higuchi, who got silver. The first round […]

Miraculous weightlifter wins first Gold for Georgia in Rio, beating World Record

By | August 17th, 2016|Categories: Sport|Tags: , , , , |

Lasha Talakhadze scoring World Record.   TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian weightlifter competing in the heaviest, +105 kg, category won the country’s first Olympic gold in these summer games, setting a new world record, while his teammate from the same weight category won bronze. Lasha Talakhadze, […]

Wrestler Bolkvadze wins bronze, Georgia’s third medal in Rio

By | August 17th, 2016|Categories: Sport|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Shmagi Bolkvadze took bronze in the Rio Olympics Tuesday in the Men’s Greco-Roman 66 kg wrestling. Georgia now has two bronze and one silver medal. The two other medals were won in Judo. Bolkvadze competed against Japan’s Tomohiro Inoue, […]

Georgia takes second medal at Rio Olympics

By | August 11th, 2016|Categories: Sport|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Varlam Liparteliani won silver medal in men’s 90 kg judo at the Rio Olympics. This is the country’s second medal in the games. Liparteliani defeated Gwak-Dong Han from South Korea in the semi-final, but in the final round, he was […]