Judo IJF World Championships 2018

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and the day of upsets continues...

Ma Zhenzhao giving a judo lesson to Madeleine Malonga...and France who were hoping for a clean sweep of the -78kg class would be lucky to end up with just a little bronze medal...

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Guusje Steenhuis is also through to the semifinals of the women's -78kg, after beating Katie Jemima Yates-Brown in the final of pool A...

 

meanwhile, the last man through to the semifinals in the -100kg class is Otgonbaatar Lkhagvasuren, who's really on fire and destriyed Jorge Fonseca in pool C final with another very spectacular ippon...

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and Marhinde Verkerk is the 4th girl in the semifinals, after beating Aleksandra Babintseva in pool D final of the women's -78kg class...

 

it was expected to be a French day in this weight category...but it didn't work out at all for them...

can now become a Dutch fest? well, with 2 girls in the semifinals it could really be...

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so, the first part of the day is already over...

 

and this is our usual quick recap of today's early action...

 

women's -78kg

 

semifinals

 

Guusje Steenhuis vs Ma Zhenzhao

Shori Hamada vs Marhinde Verkerk

 

repechage

 

Katie Jemima Yates-Brown vs Madeleine Malonga (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Hamada / Verkerk)

Klara Apotekar vs Aleksandra Babintseva (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Steenhuis / Ma)

 

 

men's -100kg

 

semifinals

 

Varlam Liparteliani vs Otgonbaatar Lkhagvasuren

Cho Gu Ham vs Niyaz Ilyasov

 

repechage

 

Ramadan Darwish vs Jorge Fonseca (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Cho / Ilyasov)

Michael Korrel vs Aaron Wolf (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Liparteliani / Lkhagvasuren)

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Egypt

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women's -78kg

 

Gold: Shori Hamada

Silver: Guusje Steenhuis

Bronze: Marhinde Verkerk & Aleksandra Babintseva

 

 

men's -100kg

 

Gold: Cho Gu Ham

Silver: Varlam Liparteliani

Bronze: Niyaz Ilyasov &  Otgonbaatar Lkhagvasuren

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just one word about today's competitions...wow!

[heywoodu 14,954]

 

That's only the 59764458th time Grol threw away a potentially very nice result

 

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17 hours ago, phelps said:

just one word about today's competitions...wow!

 

In the negative or positive sense? I was watching from the repechage contests on and almost got bored to death, especially the (gold) medal fights. Basically it went like: nothing, nothing, nothing, attack attempt, nothing, nothing, nothing, another unsuccesful attempt, nothing, nothing, golden score, nothing, nothing, nothing, score and over.

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6 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

 

In the negative or positive sense? I was watching from the repechage contests on and almost got bored to death, especially the (gold) medal fights. Basically it went like: nothing, nothing, nothing, attack attempt, nothing, nothing, nothing, another unsuccesful attempt, nothing, nothing, golden score, nothing, nothing, nothing, score and over.

 

I was referring to the upsets and big throws we've watched in the preliminary stages (actualy, there have been some upsets also in the finals session, but nothing compared to the morning)...

the big weights are often as you described...so, when something different happens, it should be underlined...