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Saba Gavashelishvili | |
Birth Date: | 5 December 1987 |
Weight Class: | –81 kg, –90 kg |
Regionals Type: | EU |
Olympics Rank: | R64 |
Olympics Year: | 2008 |
Olympics Weight: | Men's 81 kg |
Updated: | 11 February 2022 |
Saba Gavashelishvili (Georgian: საბა გავაშელიშვილი; born December 15, 1987) is a Georgian judoka, who played for the half-middleweight category.[1] He is a two-time Georgian judo champion, and a silver medalist for his division at the 2008 IJF World Cup Series in Prague, Czech Republic.[2] [3]
Gavashelishvili represented Georgia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's half-middleweight class (81 kg). He lost the first preliminary round match, by an ippon and a sankaku-jime (triangle choke), to Portugal's João Neto.[4]