Judo IJF World Championships 2018

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women's -48kg, pool A final: Munkhbat vs Costa

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Takato looks in top shape...he easily destroyed all the field in pool B (included Huseynov in the final) and he's through to the semifinals...

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wow! 5:12 of golden score in rd #3 between Tonaki and  Kang...

eventually it was the Japanese girl who won (by osaekomi) and went through to the pool final...

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pool B final among the women: Tonaki vs Figueroa

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men's pool A final: Nagayama vs Kim

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and Munkhbat is the 3rd girl qualified to the seminals in the -48kg class...

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Tonaki wins the women's -48kg pool B...she'll face Munkhbat in the top half semifinal match...

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quick recap...

 

 

women's -48kg

 

semifinals

 

Urantsetseg Munkhbat vs Funa Tonaki

Paula Pareto vs Daria Bilodid

 

repechage

 

Catarina Costa vs Julia Figueroa (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Pareto / Bilodid)

Marusa Stangar vs Otgontsetseg Galbadrakh (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Munkhbat / Tonaki)

 

 

men's -60kg

 

semifinals

 

Ryuju Nagayama vs Naohisa Takato

Robert Mshvidobadze vs  Amiran Papinashvili

 

repechage

 

Kim Yong Gwon vs  Karamat Huseynov (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Mshvidobadze / Papinashvili)

Lee Ha Rim vs Eric Takabatake (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Nagayama / Takato)

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Sportitalia... Just amazing 

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What I have noticed about this Bilodid girl (other than how hard IJF pushes her marketing-wise) is that she's incredibly tall for this category. Given her current age I think she will have serious problems to keep the weight when her body matures in a few years.