Beka Tugushi (66 kg) and Sophio Beridze (63 kg), members of Georgian judo team, competed in the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games without winning even a medal. According to the rules, boys and girls win medals only in 4-4 weight classes.
As it was expected, Tugushi had better result than any other Georgian wrestlers. He needed only one victory to stand on the pedestal. He lost the chance of winning gold-silver medals in the first round after losing with Kazakh Kairat Agibayev at the 3rd minute. These judokas wrestled again in repechage after 2 hours. Beka Tugushi won this match. Before that, Georgian sportman defeated Brazilian Matheus Marcia and Liechtensteiner Patrick Marxer. After beating Agibayev, Tugushi defeated Romanian Ioan Visan in 19 seconds and won a right to wrestle in repechage. Armenian David Gazaryab beat Tugushi and finally, he took the 5th place. Like Gazaryan, Danish wrestler Phuc Cai won bronze medal. American Maxamillian Schneider became champion. He beat North Korean Song-Chol Hyon in the final.
After the voting, Sophio Beridze started competing from 1/8 final where she wrestled with Cameroonian Sophina Aiuk Otai Arrey and beat her in 56 seconds. In 1/4 final Sophia was defeated by future finalist Brazilian Flavia Gomes at the 4th minute. To win bronze medal she needed to win 3 matches in a row but was defeated by the first opponent Lebanese Caren Chammas. Winners of two last medals will be found out among heavyweight girls and boys tomorrow.
Georgian delegation arrived in Singapore with five sportsmen and all of them have already finished competition. Though judokas will have one more chance - on August 25 winners of medals will be found out in group competition and participant teams will wrestle with mixed doubles. Freestyle wrestler Irakli Mosidze (63 kg) has the best result from Georgian sporstmen so far. He won bronze medal. Another freestyle wrestler Geno Petriashvili (100 kg) took the 5th place like Tugushi.

Otar Maglakelidze

Singapore
Youth Olympic Games
Judo, August 21-22

Boys
55 kg
1 David Pulkrabek (Czech Republic)
2 Mansurkhuja Muminkhujaev (Uzbekistan)
3 Dmytro Atanov (Ukraine)
3 Pedro Rivadulla (Spain)

66 kg
1 Maxamillian Schneider (USA)
2 Song-Chol Hyon (North Korea)
3 Phuc Cai (Denmark)
3 David Gazaryan (Armenia)
5 Beka Tugushi (Georgia)

81 kg
1 Jae Hyung Lee (South Korea)
2 Khasan Khalmurzaev (Russia)
3 Arpad Szakacs (Slovakia)
3 Krisztian Toth (Hungary)

Girls
44 kg
1 Seuk Bi Bae (South Korea)
2 Barbara batizi (Hungary)
3 Sothea Sam (Cameroon)
3 Vita Valnova (Belarus)

52 kg
1 Katelyn Bouyssou (USA)
2 Anna Dmitrieva (Russia)
3 Christine Huck (Austria)
3 Un-Ju Ri (North Korea)

63 kg
1 Miku Tashiro (Japan)
2 Flavia Gomes (Brazil)
3 Barbara Matic (Croatia)
3 Laura Naginskaite (Lithuania)
9 Sophio Beridze (Georgia)