In the Rio Grand slem on the team went with three sportsmen. Varlam Liparteliani and Levan Jorjoliani got bronze medals and And David Kevkhishvili regardless of weight change (73 to 81 kg weight category) got 5th place.

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In the men's final match the same teams of European Team Championships held in Minsk 2007 were on the tatami. Winner was just like in Minsk, Georgia against France. The French had a great start. In the category -66kg, European Champion Sofiane Milous met David Asumbani who was few month's earlier the winner of Grand Slam Tournoi de Paris. Milous threw ko-soto-gake, scoring an ippon.

Varlam Liparteliani (GEO) confirmed his quality and good form in his match clashing with bronze Romain Buffet. Liparteliani threw an amazing uchi-mata for an ippon and finally won his gold, but this time with the Georgian men's team.

Georgia's final team: David Asumbani (-66kg), Zaza Kedelashvili (-73kg), Levan Tsiklauri (-81kg), Varlam Liparteliani (-90kg), Lasha Gujejiani (+90).

Clean sweep for Georgia U81 for home crowd.

A clean sweep for Georgia in the U81kg category where all four participants took a medal while no foreigner was able to come in between and beat anyone of the Georgians.
The final between Levan Tsiklauri and Khvicha Khutsishvili.
In front of the home crowd Tsiklauri won convincing but took it easy in the final until he found his moment to grab his opponent ne-waza to win his first ever World Cup. Last year he was runner up in Tbilisi. The 24-year old Georgian already won a bronze medal in Tbilisi in 2002 at the age of 16.
The last time that a country won all medals at an international event was quite recent when Japan took all the medals in the U48kg class at the IJF Masters in Suwon.

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