Beka Gviniashvili

Beka Gviniashvili
Personal information
Nationality Georgian
Born (1995-10-26) 26 October 1995
Georgia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight 90 kg (200 lb; 14 st)[2]
Sport
Country  Georgia
Sport Judo

Beka Gviniashvili (born 26 October 1995) is a Georgian judoka who became European Junior Champion in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and won the World Junior Championships in 2013 in Ljubljana and in 2015 in Abu Dhabi and EYOF in 2011. He also became the U23 European Championship in 2016 in Tel Aviv. With the Georgian Juniors he won the World and European title. He is a promising rising judoka. He placed 5th at the 2015 World Judo Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan after losing in the bronze medal final against one of his colleagues Varlam Liparteliani. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's -100 kg category where he placed 7th. He took bronze at the 2017 European Judo Championships U90kg. He is currently the World No. 2 in -90 kg men's category.

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