Georgia at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Georgia participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.

Georgia at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	GEO
NOC	Georgian National Olympic Committee
Website	www.geonoc.org.ge
in Buenos Aires, Argentina 6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors	15 in 10 sports
Medals Ranked 45th	Gold 1 Silver 4 Bronze 1 Total 6
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Medals

Further information: 2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table

Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC (combined) teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Giorgi Chkhikvadze	Wrestling	Boys' Greco-Roman −60kg	12 October
Silver	Ilia Sulamanidze	Judo	Boys' 100 kg	9 October
Silver	Archil Malakmadze	Weightlifting	Boys' 69 kg	9 October
Silver	Giorgi Tokhadze	Wrestling	Boys' Greco-Roman −51kg	12 October
Silver	Giorgi Gegelashvili	Wrestling	Boys' freestyle −48kg	14 October
Bronze	Nino Khutsiberidze	Shooting	Girls' 10 metre air pistol	9 October

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Georgia qualified a boys' team based on the U18 3x3 National Federation Ranking.^[1]

• Boys' tournament - 1 team of 4 athletes

Event	Group stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Boys' tournament	Slovenia L W/O	China W 15-10	Turkmenistan W 20-9	Jordan W 21-4	2	Argentina L 12-21	did not advance		6

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Rhythmic gymnastics

Georgia qualified one rhythmic gymnast based on its performance at the European qualification event.^[2]

• Girls' rhythmic individual all-around - 1 quota

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Rep 1	Rep 2	Rep 3	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ilia Sulamanidze	Boys' 100 kg	Rok Pogorevc (SLO) W 10-00s1	Joaquín Burgos (ARG) W 10s1-00s1	Ömer Aydın (TUR) W 01s1-00s1	Bye			Bekarys Saduakas (KAZ) L 00s2-01s2

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Team Singapore  Ahad Al-Sagheer (YEM)  Anastasia Balaban (UKR)  Bryan Garboa (ECU)  Sarah Kafufula (COD)  Mariem Khlifi (TUN)  Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy (EGY)  Eduarda Rosa (BRA)  Ilia Sulamanidze (GEO)	Mixed Team	Team Moscow (MIX) L 3–4	did not advance

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Georgia qualified one sport shooter based on its performance at the 2018 European Championships.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Nino Khutsiberidze	Girls' 10 metre air pistol	565-13x	4 Q	214.6

Team

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Nino Khutsiberidze (GEO)  Brian Wai Kuk Ng (CAN)	Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol	740-17x	11Q	Rueda Vargas (COL)  Karstedt (GER) L 7–10	did not advance			12

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Zurab Kintsurashvili	Boys' −48 kg	Bye	Im Seong-bin (KOR) L 11-30	did not advance

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Ana Makatsaria	Girls' singles	S Zünd (LIE) L (5-7, 3-6)	did not advance
G Drummy (IRL)  A Makatsaria (GEO)	Girls' doubles	—	Y Naito (JPN)  N Sato (JPN) L (1-6, 5-7)	did not advance
A Makatsaria (GEO)  P Sydow (ARU)	Mixed doubles	Y Naito (JPN)  N Tajima (JPN) L (0-6, 1-6)	did not advance

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Archil Malakmadze	Boys' 69 kg	134	2	154	4	288

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Key:

• VFA – Victory by Fall
• VSU – Without any point(s) scored by the opponent
• VSU1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent
• VPO1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
Giorgi Tokhadze	Boys' Greco-Roman −51kg	Lovera (ARG) W 6 – 0 VFA	Adiniwin (MHL) W 8 – 0 VSU	1 Q	Sasaki (JPN) L 7 – 11 VPO1
Giorgi Chkhikvadze	Boys' Greco-Roman −60kg	Hovhannisyan (ARM) W 3 – 1 VPO1	Merikhi (ALG) W 13 – 3 VSU1	1 Q	Sadyrov (KGZ) W 9 – 0 VSU
Giorgi Gegelashvili	Boys' freestyle −48kg	Zuluaga (COL) W 12 – 1 VSU1	Detudamo (NRU) W 10 – 0 VSU	1 Q	Jalolov (UZB) L 2 – 8 VPO1