Tornike Margvelashvili (50 kg), member of the Georgian Cadet Sambo team, became world champion. The Georgian team won 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals at the main competition of 2016, held in Limassol on December 13-14.

According to the official website of International Sambo Federation, Margvelashvili defeated Mikola Kulibaba of Ukraine in final.

Mikheil Bakhbakhishvili (66kg) and Nika Kharazishvili (78kg) lacked one victory to the mail title. Davit Bakhbakhishvili (42kg), Otar Soziashvili (72kg), Dimitri Naskidashvili (84kg) and Aleksi Svianadze (+84kg) occupied the third places.

Besides Cyprus, 20 countries took part in world championship.