MKHEIDZE Luka

Date of Birth: 5 Jan 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Place of birth: TBILISI

Birth Country:

Georgia

Place of residence : PARIS

Residence Country:

France

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Men -60 kg	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Men -60 kg Elimination Round of 16 #10 ESP GARRIGOS FGARRIGOS Francisco 0s2 FRA MKHEIDZE LMKHEIDZE Luka 1 WAZ	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 2	Men -60 kg Quarterfinal #17 FRA MKHEIDZE LMKHEIDZE Luka 10 IPP UKR LESIUK ALESIUK Artem 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -60 kg Semifinal of Table A #32 TPE YANG YWYANG Yung Wei 10s1 IPP FRA MKHEIDZE LMKHEIDZE Luka 0s2	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -60 kg Contest for Bronze Medal B #37 KOR KIM WJKIM Won Jin 0s3 FRA MKHEIDZE LMKHEIDZE Luka 10 IPP	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	-60 kg
2019	Tokyo, JPN	17
2018	Baku, AZE	17

European Championships

Year	Location	-60 kg
2021	Lisbon, POR	2
2020	Prague, CZE	9
2019	Minsk, BLR	7

World Masters

Year	Location	-60 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	17
2019	Qingdao, CHN	9

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-60 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	-60 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2019	-60 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	2x	-
2018	-60 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	-60 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	1x
2018	-60 kg	-	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-60 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	-60 kg	-	-	2x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2018	-60 kg	1x	1x	1x	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-60 kg	-	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2018	-60 kg	World Cup	Madrid, ESP
2	2018	-60 kg	World Cup	Minsk, BLR
2	2018	-60 kg	Grand Prix	Cancun, MEX
2	2017	-60 kg	World Cup	Casablanca, MAR
3	2021	-60 kg	Grand Slam	Tashkent, UZB
3	2020	-60 kg	Grand Slam	Budapest, HUN
3	2019	-60 kg	World Cup	Luxembourg, LUX
3	2019	-60 kg	World Cup	Cluj-Napoca, ROU
3	2018	-60 kg	World Cup	Sofia, BUL
3	2017	-60 kg	World Cup	Bucharest, ROU

Occupation:

Athlete, Public Servant

Culinary Studies

Languages spoken:

Sucy Judo [Paris, FRA]

Stephane Auduc [club], FRA

He took up the sport at age seven in Georgia. (valdemarne.fr, 07 Jul 2021)

He was encouraged to begin judo by his father. He was denied a judo license in Georgia due to his height, but returned to the sport after his family relocated to France. (actu.fr, 30 May 2021)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sucyjudo.fr, 20 Apr 2021)

Earning a quota place for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (actu.fr, 30 May 2021)

General Interest

Preferred techniques
Ippon-seoi-nage (judobase.ijf.org, 16 Apr 2021)

General
FROM GEORGIA TO FRANCE
He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. Following conflict in South Ossetia, he left the country with his mother in 2009. After spending eight months in a refugee camp in Poland, their asylum petition was denied and later moved to France, settling in Le Havre after a year. He received French citizenship in 2015 after his club Judo Perrey Guerrier requested the support of the mayor of Le Havre, Edouard Philippe. "It normally takes time to be granted citizenship, but a few months later I received a letter announcing I would receive it, which was later officially confirmed." (valdemarne.fr, 07 Jul 2021; actu.fr, 30 May 2021; leparisien.fr, 20 Sep 2018)

OCCUPATION
Alongside judo, he works part-time for the French department of Val-de-Marne. (valdemarne.fr, 07 Jul 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon
WAZ:: Waza-Ari

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