Jevgeņijs Borodavko (born 4 November 1986) is a

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...

. Born in

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

. By finishing 7th at the 2007 European Championships, he qualified for the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

, losing to Roberto Meloni in the first round of the middleweight (-90 kg) competition. He also qualified for the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, having moved to the half-heavyweight (-100 kg) division. There he beat

Anthony Liu Anthony Liu (born Liu Yueming on 4 July 1974) is a Chinese-Australian figure skater. A seven-time Australian national champion, he represented Australia at the 1998 Winter Olympics, where he placed 25th, and at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where ...

of American Samoa before losing to

Dimitri Peters Dimitri Peters (born 4 May 1984 in Gljaden, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a German judoka. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he lost to gold medallist Tagir Khaybulaev, Tagir Khaibulaev at the semi-final stage, and then won through the repechage, be ...

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* * * 1986 births Living people Latvian male judoka Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka of Latvia Sportspeople from Riga European Games competitors for Latvia Judoka at the 2015 European Games Judoka at the 2019 European Games 20th-century Latvian people 21st-century Latvian people {{Latvia-judo-bio-stub