Georgii Zantaraia

Georgii Zantaraia is a judoka who won the world under-60 kilograms title in 2009 in Rotterdam. The Ukrainian won six World Championships medals from 2009 to 2018 and took the European title in 2011 and 2017. He captured the European Games gold in Minsk in 2019 and won bronze at the Grand Slam in Paris in 2019 and 2020. Zantaraia is a chair of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine's Athletes' Commission. He left his native Abkhaziya, a region in Georgia, at the age of five.

Georgii  Zantaraia