Judo IJF World Championships 2019

[phelps 7,746]

today, instead, we have the most expected semifinals...nobody got even close to get a surprising entry among the forelast round of the competition...

 

we can find a couple of unexpected players only among those who are going to fight in the repechage matches...

 

for Italy, yesterday there was a disappointing outing by Elios Manzi in the men's -60kg (not so much because he lost to Smetov in his 3rd fight, but because how he fought in all of his 3 bouts, including the 2 he narrowly won)...

 

today, it's even more disappointing...

 

2018 junior world champion Manuel Lombardo first had to escape an already lost match against Shmailov, then he was too tired in the quarterfinal's match and he didn't understand anything against Vieru (who already beat him a couple of time earlier this season), who easily beat him thanks to a painful arm lock (I hope he won't have any trouble against Iadov in the repechage match later on because of that)...

 

European Games/Championships runner-up Matteo Medves, instead, was joked again by Abe (as it happened last year)...but that was well within expectations...

 

the real disaster came once again from Odette Giuffrida, who lost at the golden score against Kuziutina after more than 5 mins in which she didn't do absolutely nothing...and that's unacceptable by an Olympic Silver medallist, who started the competition with explicit ambition of coming back home with at least a medal...

Edited August 26, 2019 by phelps

[dcro 10,210]

This is cheating. Japanese will get used to pressure, so they will be better next year.

[phelps 7,746]

Just now, dcro said:

This is cheating. Japanese will get used to pressure, so they will be better next year.

 

no, next year they will feel a lot more pressure...

 

more fails coming...I hope...

[Monzanator 4,579]

Outrageous time wasting by the Egyptian! And he gets promptly DQ with 15 secs left

[Monzanator 4,579]

Maruyama upsets 2x defending champ Abe in the golden score!

[Monzanator 4,579]

Kelmendi wins bronze and Ramos probably suffered a broken nose

[Monzanator 4,579]

Uta Abe wins gold by ippon after 30 secs.

[ChandlerMne 1,058]

Just now, Monzanator said:

Kelmendi wins bronze and Ramos probably suffered a broken nose

Majlinda is definitelly not as good as in Rio but she is still serious medal contender.

 

[ChandlerMne 1,058]

Japan with 4 medals but only 1 gold. 

Biggest upset is Takato, as current world champion he only won 5th place.

 

[Monzanator 4,579]

Maruyama takes gold! That was impressive!