Judo IJF World Tour 2019

[thepharoah 2,405]

 Ramadan Darwish finally made a good result after a while as he won the gold medal of GP in Canada , defeating the home champion Shady el nahas who was born in Egypt in the final 

[phelps 7,664]

Grand Prix (Montreal, CAN)

 

Tournament Recap

 

Despite not entering all of their stars, Japan totally dominated the Montreal GP, winning 7 out of the possible 14 Gold Medals...

 

Very good results also for the Home team, with 9 medals (1/4/4)...

 

But the expected highlight of the tournament was Teddy Riner's comeback after a very long pause...

and of course it was a winning comeback, with the French superstar defeating good/very good/great opponents like Simionescu / Krpalek / Harasawa on his way to success...

 

by the way, here are all the 2019 Montreal GP Champions:

 

Women:

 

-48kg: Wakana Koga

-52kg: Gefen Primo

-57kg: Christa Deguchi

-63kg: Cho Mok Hee

-70kg: Giovanna Scoccimarro

-78kg: Shori Hamada

+78kg: Sarah Asahina

 

Men:

 

-60kg: Naohisa Takato

-66kg: Kherlen Ganbold

-73kg: Soichi Hashimoto

-81kg: Takanori Nagase

-90kg: Mashu Baker

-100kg: Ramadan Darwish

+100kg: Teddy Riner

 

Full Results, here:

https://live.ijf.org/gp_can2019/results

[Gianlu33 4,537]

Riner now have won 148 match in a row... It's something of amazing 

[phelps 7,664]

21 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Riner now have won 148 match in a row... It's something of amazing 

 

a few of them gifted to him by the "superior powers" or, if you prefer, "the Gods of Judo"...

Edited July 8, 2019 by phelps

[heywoodu 14,954]

On 08/07/2019 at 11:17, phelps said:

 

a few of them gifted to him by the "superior powers" or, if you prefer, "the Gods of Judo"...

Care to elaborate?  

[phelps 7,664]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Care to elaborate?  

 

do I really need?

I mean, it's quite obvious that I'm saying that a few of those wins did come thanks to some favourable calls by the refs and the video judges...

[heywoodu 14,954]

1 minute ago, phelps said:

 

do I really need?

I mean, it's quite obvious that I'm saying that a few of those wins did come thanks to some favourable calls by the refs and the video judges...

Well yeah but I had never heard accusations like this before  

[phelps 7,664]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Well yeah but I had never heard accusations like this before  

 

well, you know...he's the superstar of the game...

 

he still is an amazing athlete and has this unbelievable streak going...

 

there's no doubt about it...

 

but...

 

but, as many greats in any sport, sometimes his results go beyond what he actually does on the mat (not that I'm saying anything new or accusing him to not deserve the success he has had in the past and still has right now)...

 

I guess it's part of the modern sport system...

 

and I accept it, but I like to let people know that there's still someone noticing that...

[phelps 7,664]

Grand Prix (Budapest, HUNN)

 

Tournament Recap

 

New tournament, same story...Japan dominated also the Budapest GP, winning 5 out of the possible 14 Gold Medals (4 among the women and only 1 among the men, though)...

 

Brazil, thanks to Rafaela Silva and Mayra Aguiar's Gold medals, finally got second in this tournament's medal table...

 

Then 7 more Nations won 1 Gold medal each...

 

here are all the 2019 Budapest GP Champions:

 

Women:

 

-48kg: Funa Tonaki

-52kg: Chishima Maeda

-57kg: Rafaela Silva

-63kg: Masako Doi

-70kg: Gemma Howell

-78kg: Mayra Aguiar

+78kg: Wakaba Tomita

 

Men:

 

-60kg: Yeldos Smetov

-66kg: Kherlen Ganbold

-73kg: Akil Gjakova

-81kg: Tato Grigalashvili

-90kg: Nikoloz Sherazadishvili

-100kg: Aaron Wolf

+100kg: Or Sasson

 

Full Results, here:

https://live.ijf.org/gp_hun2019/results

[phelps 7,664]

what the hell are they doing???

 

"The IJF will launch a new-look live streaming page on Friday during day one of the Zagreb Grand Prix with new, personalised and customisable features, in order to provide an unprecedented experience for fans.

 

Judo fans will be closer to the action and to their idols than ever before with a whole range of new features along with a fresh look for the live.ijf.org page which is the home for the IJF stream for all World Judo Tour events.

 

Upon visiting live.ijf.org from Friday visitors will be required to create a free IJF account to log-in and enjoy the features and the live and free stream.

 

By registering you will unlock new tools such as the opportunity to vote for which judoka will win, select your favourite judoka, your country and create your own team of judoka to follow with notifications and a personalised dashboard among a host of options which will be launching in the near future.

 

Create a free IJF Account now and you will also be among the first to hear about the upcoming opportunities to buy tickets to IJF World Judo Tour events, to browse thousands of competition videos, analyse those videos and be able to access a special IJF Veteran site.

 

Join the community now and sit back and enjoy the finest IJF World Judo Tour viewing experience as the final event before the Worlds starts on Friday morning at 11am."

 

p.s. live streaming (at least this week) is still completely free also on Youtube (no need for registration, there)...