Judo IJF World Tour 2019

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Paula Pareto is, probably, the best amateur athlete of the argentinian history.

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Grand Slam (Ekaterinburg, RUS)

 

Day #3 Recap

 

Host Nation Russia on top of the final day in Ekaterinburg...they won in fact both the Heavyweights and the Super-Heavyweights in the men's division and at the end of the tournament they also did jump on the top of the medal standings...

 

and finally Japan saved their honour, winning the only Gold Medal of their (quite disappointing) Siberian campaign...

 

Today's Champions are: Noel Van T End (men's -90kg), Arman Adamian (men's -100kg), Tamerlan Bashaev (men's +100kg), Mao Izumi (women's -78kg) and Maria Suelen Altheman (women's +78kg)...

 

in the Medal Ranking, as written before, Russia ended up on top with 3 Gold Medals, followed by France and Israel with 2 Gold Medals...the remaining 7 Gold Medals went 1 each to 7 more Countries ( Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mongolia, Netherlands and Sweden)...

 

 

Full Results here:

https://live.ijf.org/gs_rus2019/results

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Van 't End won his first Grand Slam after 5 lost finals  

 

And wow, Adamian destroyed that other Russian, while the Brazilian male 100kg guys had some really awesome ippons for bronze  

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Grand Prix (Tbilisi, GEO)

 

Day #1 Recap

 

5 events scheduled for today...and 5 different Nations did climb the top of the podium...

 

to be noticed that Japan didn't enter the tournament...

 

those teams are: the host Nation, Georgia (Lukhumi Chkhvimiani, men's -60kg); Israel (Tal Flicker, men's -66kg); France (Melanie Clement, women's -48kg..she beat the reigning world champion Daria Bilodid in the final); Italy (Odette Giuffrida, women's -52kg) and Kosovo (Nora Gjakova, women's -57kg)...

 

Full Results and Rankings here:

https://live.ijf.org/gp_geo2019/results

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Grand Prix (Tbilisi, GEO)

 

Day #2 Recap

 

The Netherlands had the best performance in the second day of the Georgian Grand Prix, winning 2 out of the 4 events contested today...

their Gold medallists are: Frank De Wit (men's -81kg) and Sanne Vermeer (women's -63kg)...

 

the remaining 2 events in today's program went to France (Guillaume Chaine, men's -73kg) and Portugal (Barbara Timo, women's -70kg)...

 

therefore, thank to these results, now France and the Netherlands share the lead of the medal table with 2 Gold Medals each, followed by the hosts from Georgia, Israel, Italy, Kosovo and Portugal with 1 full success each...

 

Full Results and Rankings here:

https://live.ijf.org/gp_geo2019/results

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Grand Prix (Tbilisi, GEO)

 

Day #3 Recap

 

Once again, like last Friday, today we had 5 Gold medallists from 5 different Countries (even if some of those already won Gold medals in the previous days)...

 

Today's champions are: Ivan Felipe Silva Morales (men's -90kg), Kazbek Zankishiev (men's -100kg), Levani Matiashvili (men's +100kg), Loriana Kuka (women's -78kg) and Julia Tolofua (women's +78kg)...

 

with these results, France won the medal table with 3 Gold Medals, edging out Georgia, Kosovo and the Netherlands, who won 2 Gold Medals each...

 

meanwhile Cuba, Israel, Italy, Portugal and Russia shared the remaining Gold medals (1 each)...

 

 

Full Results and Rankings here:

https://live.ijf.org/gp_geo2019/results

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Grand Prix (Antalya, TUR)

 

Event Recap

 

14 weight classes between men and women, 14 different Nations coming home with a Gold Medal...

basically, the perfect tournament...

 

Women's Champions
-48kg: Distria Krasniqi
-52kg: Andreea Chitu
-57kg: Julia Kowalczyk
-63kg: Maylin Del Toro Carvajal
-70kg: Elisavet Teltsidou
-78kg: Anna Maria Wagner
+78kg: Iryna Kindzerska

Men's Champions
-60kg: Yeldos Smetov
-66kg: Denis Vieru
-73kg: An Chang Rim
-81kg: Luka Maisuradze
-90kg: Mikail Ozerler
-100kg: Alexandre Iddir
+100kg: Roy Meyer

 

 

Full Results and Rankings here:

https://live.ijf.org/gp_tur2019/results

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Grand Slam (Baku, AZE)

 

Day #1 Recap

 

Brazil on top of the standings in the first day of the 4th GS tournament of the season, the last one with 50% scores in the Olympic Qualification Ranking...

They won 2 of the 5 contested weight classes, thanks to Felipe Kitadai (men's -60kg) and to the Rio Olympic Champion, Rafaela Silva (women's -57kg)...

 

The remaining Gold Medals went to Moldova (Denis Vieru, men's -66kg...at his second success in a GS tournament this year, after winning the prestigious Paris Open); Spain (Laura Martinez Abelenda, women's -48kg...where we had an unusual all-Spanish Final) and France (Amandine Bouchard, women's -52kg)...

 

Shamefully, Italy is not participating in this tournament...

 

meanwhile the Japanese contingent in day #1 was limited to 2 girls...and both came home with a Silver Medal (Ai Shishime, -52kg and Tsukasa Yoshida, -57kg)...

unfortunately, Shishime looks to have suffered a serious knee injury (she had to abandon the final bout with the help of Bouchard, as she couldn't even lay her left leg down on the ground)...

 

Full Results here:

https://live.ijf.org/gs_aze2019/results

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Grand Slam (Baku, AZE)

 

Day #2 Recap

 

First Gold Medal for the Host Nation, Azerbaijan, in day #2 of the Baku GS tournament...

the local hero of the day is Hidayat Heydarov in the men's -73kg class...

 

but the dominating side of today's action is Japan, winning 2 Gold Medals with the only 2 girls at the start (Miku Tashiro in the -63kg and Chizuru Arai in the -70kg)...

 

finally, the last Gold Medal of the day goes to Israel, thanks to Sagi Muki (men's -81kg)...

 

after 2 days of action, Japan and Brazil lead the medal table with 2 Gold Medals each, followed by Azerbaijan, Israel, Moldova, France and Spain with 1 Gold Medal each...

 

Full Results here:

https://live.ijf.org/gs_aze2019/results

Edited May 11, 2019 by phelps

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