phelps 6,795 Posted October 22, 2022 #11 Share Posted October 22, 2022 12 minutes ago, 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. 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)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafa Maciel 1,226 Posted October 22, 2022 #12 Share Posted October 22, 2022 9 minutes ago, 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)... 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makedonas 1,571 Posted October 22, 2022 #13 Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) Teltsidou was horrible since her 7th place finish in Tokyo, now she just won the Grand Slam here Edited October 22, 2022 by Makedonas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted October 22, 2022 #14 Share Posted October 22, 2022 5 hours ago, Makedonas said: Teltsidou was horrible since her 7th place finish in Tokyo, now she just won the Grand Slam here 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted October 23, 2022 #15 Share Posted October 23, 2022 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted October 23, 2022 #16 Share Posted October 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, phelps said: Marius Fizel 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted October 23, 2022 #17 Share Posted October 23, 2022 7 hours ago, 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. unfortunately he couldn't stop the guy from but it's still a good 5th place in a very important tournament... hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted October 23, 2022 #18 Share Posted October 23, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makedonas 1,571 Posted October 23, 2022 #19 Share Posted October 23, 2022 On 10/22/2022 at 3:51 PM, phelps said: not that today's starting field was really strong, tbh... I won't complain about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted November 5, 2022 #20 Share Posted November 5, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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