Adam Okruashvili (+100 kg), member of Georgian judo team, went through the semifinal of the current World Championship, which takes place in Brazil. The Georgian, after beating Derek Sua of Samoa and Polish Maciej Sarnacki by Ippons, won over Russian Europe Champion, Alexander Mikhaylin in 3 minute and 47 seconds. Exactly in this time, the Russian got 4 warnings from the referee.

The final will start from 23:00 on Tbilisi time. In the semifinal, Okruashvili will face French Teddy Riner, World and Olympic Champion and he will try to take a revenge due to the lost final of this year.

In the second semifinal, Brazilian Rafael Silva and German Andreas Toelzer will wrestle.

Otar Maglakelidze