Judo IJF World Tour 2022

[phelps 7,862]

  On 10/22/2022 at 9:30 AM, Rafa Maciel said:

Unfortunately the Team GB men seem to be really struggling to make much headway in Abu Dhabi with Moorhead and Powell failing to make it through their first match whilst Ham and Fryer losing in the second round.

 

Difficult to see how you can qualify for Paris if all you're picking up is participation points. The guys are going to need to pull out some big performances in 2023.

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well, today it looks better for GBR...

 

Renshall is in the semifinals of the W -63kg and both Petersen-Pollard and Yeats-Brown are in the pool finals of the W -70kg...they can't be worse than 5th (Renshall) or 7th (the other 2 girls)...

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

  On 10/22/2022 at 9:44 AM, phelps said:

well, today it looks better for GBR...

 

Renshall is in the semifinals of the W -63kg and both Petersen-Pollard and Yeats-Brown are in the pool finals of the W -70kg...they can't be worse than 5th (Renshall) or 7th (the other 2 girls)...

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Absolutely - the British women are undoubtedly performing much better than the men and I think we have realistic prospects to qualify in 5 of the 7 women's weight divisions. On the men's side however, we barely sent any male athletes to the World Champs and where they do compete, they are struggling to make any impact. Unless something dramatically changes, there is a real prospect GB will not qualify any male judokas for Paris.

[Makedonas 2,200]

Teltsidou was horrible since her 7th place finish in Tokyo, now she just won the Grand Slam here 

Edited October 22, 2022 by Makedonas

[phelps 7,862]

  On 10/22/2022 at 2:13 PM, Makedonas said:

Teltsidou was horrible since her 7th place finish in Tokyo, now she just won the Grand Slam here 

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not that today's starting field was really strong, tbh...

 

by the way, today it was a truly European day in Abu Dhabi, as  won the 4 titles up for grabs.

 

which means that now  France are leading the medal table with 2 Gold medals, followed by a bunch of Nations with 1 each ( Italy are still second, as they won also another silver and another bronze today).

 

Tomorrow the event comes to a close with the heaviest classes tournaments, as usual the perfect conclusion of a grand slam.

 

here's the results recap updated after today's action:

https://www.ijf.org/competition/2309/results

[phelps 7,862]

 Marius Fizel (+100kg class) is going to fight in the bronze medal bout at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam  @hckošice

 

he beat  and  in the preliminary rounds, then he lost to  in the quarterfinals and finally he beat  Khammo (not the last man of the ranking, actually, he's the world no.12 and he's won 3 world bronze medals, 1 gold and 1 bronze at the Europeans and 1 gold and 2 silvers in the grand slam tournaments) in the repechage round.

 

his opponent in the BMM later today is Temur Rakhimov, not an easy match, tbh (the session starts @ 3 p.m. CET, there are 12/13 matches and 2 medal ceremonies before his fight...in SVK I think you can watch everything for free on the IJF website).

[hckošice 15,129]

  On 10/23/2022 at 12:07 PM, phelps said:

Marius Fizel

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I always loved this kid, because of his name.

 

Fizel in slovak means "cop", well, not exactly the word cop, but rather a vulgar word for describing a policeman, something like snooper but worse

 

anyway, good luck to him, would be something exceptional to win a medal in this sport for us even at this stage.

[phelps 7,862]

  On 10/23/2022 at 12:15 PM, hckošice said:

I always loved this kid, because of his name.

 

Fizel in slovak means "cop", well, not exactly the word cop, but rather a vulgar word for describing a policeman, something like snooper but worse

 

anyway, good luck to him, would be something exceptional to win a medal in this sport for us even at this stage.

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unfortunately he couldn't stop the guy from  

 

but it's still a good 5th place in a very important tournament...

[phelps 7,862]

the  Abu Dhabi Grand Slam ended earlier today with the last 3 men's weight classes (won by  and ) and the last 2 women's weight classes (both won by ).

 

This means that  and shared the win of the final medal table with 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze medal each).

 

 also got 2 Gold medals, meanwhile 8 more Countries (  and ) enjoyed a single full success. 

 

Final Results Full Recap:

https://www.ijf.org/competition/2309/results

[Makedonas 2,200]

  On 10/22/2022 at 7:51 PM, phelps said:

not that today's starting field was really strong, tbh...

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I won't complain about that 

[phelps 7,862]

in Day #1 of the  Baku Grand Slam Tournament, local hero  Balabay Aghayev won the M -60kg class.

meanwhile, in the M -66kg category, it was  Denis Vieru to take the top honor.

among the women,  Shirine Boukli,  Diyora Keldiyorova and  Christa Deguchi won respectively the -48kg, -52kg and -57kg competitions.

 

Results can be found here:

https://www.ijf.org/competition/2311/results

 

Today the tournament continues with the men's -73kg and -81kg and with the women's -63kg and -70kg weight classes.

Edited November 5, 2022 by phelps