Georgian judoka Zviad Gogotchuri (100 kg) won silver medal at European Cup in Bratislava. He was the only representative of Georgia. Gogotchuri defeated Patryk Broniec of Poland, Mattia Riva of Italy and Semen Rakita of Ukraine by ippon-ippon. In the final the Georgian was to wrestle against Dino Pfeiffer of Germany but he did not show up on tatami due to injury.

Zviad Gogotchuri is also a member of the Georgia Paralympic team and in September he will try to win gold medal in Rio Olympics.