Guram Tushishvili Judoka

Guram Tushishvili

Country:Georgia
Born:5 February 1995 (25 years)
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Guram Tushishvili of Georgia became World Champion in 2018 in Baku. He is the European Champion of 2017 in Warsaw, also he won the team title with Georgia. He captured European Games gold in Minsk. He claimed the gold medal at the Grand Prix in Tashkent in 2019. Guram won gold at the Grand Prix in Tbilisi and Zagreb in 2018. Tushishvili is the World Cadet Champion of 2011 in Kiev and took two European Junior titles in 2013 and 2015. He took gold at the IJF Masters in 2017 and 2018.

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Daria Bilodid: the role model of all cadet world champions

24 Sep 2019 11:10

Obviously everyone knows the story of Daria Bilodid, the current double senior World Champion won the cadet world title in 2015 in Sarajevo. In the previous World Championships Min-Jong Kim (KOR) became cadet world champion in Chile and he finished with bronze at the last senior World Championships in Tokyo. There are countless examples of successful transitions from cadet to senior level, but it's not an ABC. Read more

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Guram Tushishvili finds gold in Tashkent again

22 Sep 2019 19:40

What a great way to finish the Tashkent Grand Prix 2019 edition on the match between the 2018 World Champion, Guram Tushishvili, who remained on the disappointment of a missed 2019 World Championship campaign, and Bekmurod Oltiboev (UZB) supported by the whole public? After a little over 1 minute and despite the pressure put by Oltiboev, the Georgian had already taken the advantage of a waza-ari. Read more

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Lukas Krpalek sucessfully collects world titles

31 Aug 2019 17:30

Czech star Lukas Krpalek was crowned the new world heavyweight champion after a thrilling last individual contest at the World Championships. Olympic silver medallist Harasawa Hisayoshi of Japan, the world number four, was spurred on by the highly-charged crowd but it was world number two and Olympic champion U100kg Krpalek who had the advantage. Read more

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We will have new heavyweight World Champions

31 Aug 2019 11:50

At the last day of the inidividual Championships in Tokyo defending champion Guram Tushishvili (GEO) was in devastating form in the preliminaries as he won all three of his contests by ippon to breeze into the last four. Read more

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Is Tushishvili the one to take down Riner?

4 Jul 2019 09:05

Guram Tushishvili is without doubt the most exciting fighter in the Men's +100kg weight class. The fact that he used to be a U100kg fighter means he's not big and sluggish like some heavyweights can be but is relatively smaller and nimble. He also does techniques that big heavyweights don't normally do like drop seoi-nage. Read more