Beka Gviniashvili at his best

Beka Gviniashvili was going to be a judo star, until the figure of Lasha Bekauri emerged. With the Olympic champion absent, Gviniashvili led the pack of four Georgians. This is a category that they are good at, but the only one who reached the last step was Gviniashvili, who crushed all his opponents. Krisztian Toth is a seasoned veteran of a thousand battles and he still has plenty of rope left. In Tbilisi he avoided all the pitfalls and appeared in the final against Gviniashvili.

Gviniashvili and Toth have met 9 times in the junior category, with 8 wins for the Georgian. Since they have been on the World Judo Tour they have met eight more times and Toth has lost them all. Stats being what they are, although Toth probably wasn't thinking about it too much, there was no miracle for the Hungarian. Gviniashvili scored waza-ari and was far superior. It is clear that he has the measure of Toth and he knows it. Toth ended up desperate and with three shido. Gviniashvili won his third grand slam gold.

Frenchman Maxime-Gael Ngayap Hambou won bronze beating Georgian Giorgi Papunashvili. Ngayap Hambou dominated the entire match, scoring waza-ari and waiting for the time to run out. Papunashvili had no chance of victory. The fight for the second bronze pitted the Italian Gennaro Pirelli against the Japanese Shoichiro Mukai, who did not have a particularly brilliant day. Here though, Mukai had his best match of the day. First he scored waza-ari and then he dedicated himself to managing his advantage until the time ran out.