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competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in

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. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the

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. It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.

Medalists

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

Athletics

Georgian athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): ;Field events

Boxing

Georgia entered three male boxers into the Olympic tournament for the first time in 12 years. 2019 European Games silver medalist Sakhil Alakhverdovi (men's flyweight), Eskerkhan Madiev (men's welterweight), and Giorgi Kharabadze (men's middleweight) secured the spots on the Georgian squad in their respective weight divisions, either by winning the round of 16 match, advancing to the semifinal match, or scoring a box-off triumph, at the 2020 European Qualification Tournament in

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and

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Fencing

Georgia entered one fencer into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian

Sandro Bazadze Sandro Bazadze ( ka, სანდრო ბაზაძე; born 29 July 1993) is a Georgian right-handed sabre fencer. He is the 2023 and 2022 individual European champion, and a two-time Olympian. Bazadze competed in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro O ...

claimed a spot in the men's sabre as one of the two highest-ranked fencers vying for qualification from Europe in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.

Gymnastics

Rhythmic

Georgia entered one gymnasts to compete at the Olympics, after get the allocation quota at the

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in Baku,

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Judo

Georgia entered nine judoka (seven men and two women) into the Olympic tournament based on the

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Olympics Individual Ranking. ;Men ;Women

Karate

Georgia entered one karateka into the inaugural Olympic tournament.

Gogita Arkania Gogita Arkania (born 26 May 1984) is a Georgian karateka. He is a two-time gold medalist at the World Karate Championships (2014 and 2021). He also represented Georgia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Career Arkania won the gold ...

qualified directly for the men's kumite +75 kg category by finishing top three at 2021 World Olympic Qualification Tournament in

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. ;Kumite

Shooting

Georgian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.

Swimming

Tennis

At the conclusion of the qualification period for the Olympic tennis tournament and after some withdrawals, the following players had qualified for the competition by means of rankings.

Weightlifting

Georgia qualified four male weightlifters for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition.

Shota Mishvelidze Shota Mishvelidze ( ka, შოთა მიშველიძე; born ) is a Georgian male weightlifter, and European Champion competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 61 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting ...

(men's 61 kg),

Anton Pliesnoi Anton Pliesnoi ( ka, ანტონ პლესნოი; uk, Антон Плесной; born 17 September 1996) is a Georgian and Ukrainian weightlifter competing in the 94 kg division until 2018 and 96 kg starting in 2018 after th ...

(men's 96 kg), and reigning Olympic champion

Lasha Talakhadze Lasha Talakhadze ( ka, ლაშა ტალახაძე; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records regardless of weight category in the snatch (225 kg), the clean and jerk (267 kg) and the total (49 ...

(men's +109 kg) secured one of the top eight slots each in their respective weight divisions based on the IWF Absolute World Ranking, with Goga Chkheidze (men's 67 kg) topping the list of weightlifters from Europe in the men's 67 kg division of the IWF Absolute Continental Ranking.

Wrestling

Georgia qualified seven wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Four of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spots in the men's freestyle (97 and 125 kg) and men's Greco-Roman (97 and 130 kg) wrestling at the 2019 World Championships, while three additional licenses were awarded to the Georgian wrestlers, who progressed to the top two finals of their respective weight categories at the 2021 European Olympic Qualification Tournament in

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. ;Freestyle ;Greco-Roman

References

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