Judo EJU European Championships 2024 Road to Paris 2024

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Judo EJU European Championships 2024

 

Zagreb (CRO) - 25 April 2024 - 28 April 2024

 

 

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Edited April 24 by Sindo

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action so far...

 

women's -48kg

Gold:  (RUS) Kristina Dudina

Silver:  Blandine Pont

Bronze:  Catarina Costa &  Tamar Malca

 

women's -52kg

Gold:  Distria Krasniqi

Silver:  Odette Giuffrida

Bronze:  Ariane Toro Soler &  Reka Pupp

 

women's -57kg

Gold:  Daria Bilodid

Silver:  Kaja Kajzer

Bronze:  Timna Nelson Levy &  Eteri Liparteliani

 

women's -63kg

Gold:  Renata Zachova

Silver:  Joanne Van Lieshout

Bronze:  Savita Russo &  Andreja Leski

 

women's -70kg

Gold:  Barbara Matic

Silver:  Elisavet Teltsidou

Bronze:  Lara Cvjetko &  Ai Tsunoda Roustant

 

men's -60kg

Gold:  Francisco Garrigos

Silver:  Balabay Aghayev

Bronze:  Salih Yildiz &  Cedric Revol

 

men's -66kg

Gold:  Vazha Margvelashvili

Silver: Muhammed Demirel 

Bronze:  Bence Pongracz &  Elios Manzi

 

men's -73kg

Gold:  Hidayat Heydarov

Silver:  (RUS) Danil Lavrentev

Bronze:  Lasha Shavdatuashvili &  Joan-Benjamin Gaba

 

men's -81kg

Gold:  Tato Grigalashvili

Silver:  Frank De Wit

Bronze:  Vedat Albayrak &  Shamil Borchashvili

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black & white, good & less good notes for  so far...

 

what's good:

 

- Odette Giuffrida winning silver and going close to beat Krasniqi once again, just another demonstration of efficiency by our "veteran", doing what she has to do and not giving up in front of the super-top class opponents

 

- Savita Russo, 1st global medal among the seniors for our 18-year young rising star (reigning jr. European Champion in the -63kg class), especially important because this is a weight class where we didn't have any significant result since Maria Centracchio's surprising bronze in Tokyo (and unfortunately she had to retire after that success because of sickness)

 

- Elios Manzi winning a very important bronze medal, which should seal the deal for  in terms of Olympic qualification in this weight class (still, the fight between Manzi and Piras to earn the final spot for the Games is on and very, very tight)

 

- Antonio Esposito having another good performance in the men's -81kg class, showing he can be there with the top players in that weight category, even if he always finds the way to ruin his tournament when the going gets tough

 

what's not good:

 

- the girls in the -70kg class not performing as expected and, above all, why not giving Kim Polling the chance to make her debut for the Italian team? it would have been important for her under a psychological point of view and also to earn a few points in the OQR and seal the deal of her qualification to Paris, which is not mathematical yet

 

- the guys in the -60kg...after a promising start of the Olympic campaign back in 2022, Pantano had a disappointing outing after another and Carlino, back from a controversial doping ban, has never shown to be really competitive at the top level...result: we won't qualify anybody in this class

 

- in general, why so many of our best fighters aren't even here? this was a perfect tournament to improve their ranking towards the Olympics and collect some medals...

[copravolley 58]

Our top judokas are apparently planning to take part in the World Championships to can 100% seeding in Paris, which is rather certain in the case of Scutto, Bellandi, Lombardo and Parlati. The exception is Giuffrida, who may prefer to start in the European Championship and focus only on the Olympics. She is an experienced competitor and you can trust that she knows her body and has a good plan. The rest of our team - the potentially worse part of it - made good use of these competitions:

 

- Manzi/Piras basically agreed the amount for Italy, it's just a matter of which one for them,
- Antonio Esposito took 5th place today and promotion to the Olympics is already certain for him.

 

The only thing I have doubts about is Toniolo and Tavano, who would have 100% chance of getting a ticket to Paris if they had taken the points here. The same goes for Polling but perhaps it's too early for her debut in NT. She definitely must start in some big tournament before the Olympics: Slam/World Championships, because currently her advancement is not certain yet.
 

[Jan Linha 493]

Now, honestly, can Zachová be another medal candidate in Paris together with Krpálek? 😁

[Andry84 82]

7 hours ago, copravolley said:

Our top judokas are apparently planning to take part in the World Championships to can 100% seeding in Paris, which is rather certain in the case of Scutto, Bellandi, Lombardo and Parlati. The exception is Giuffrida, who may prefer to start in the European Championship and focus only on the Olympics. She is an experienced competitor and you can trust that she knows her body and has a good plan. The rest of our team - the potentially worse part of it - made good use of these competitions:

 

- Manzi/Piras basically agreed the amount for Italy, it's just a matter of which one for them,
- Antonio Esposito took 5th place today and promotion to the Olympics is already certain for him.

 

The only thing I have doubts about is Toniolo and Tavano, who would have 100% chance of getting a ticket to Paris if they had taken the points here. The same goes for Polling but perhaps it's too early for her debut in NT. She definitely must start in some big tournament before the Olympics: Slam/World Championships, because currently her advancement is not certain yet.
 

Toniolo and Tavano are already qualified for Olympics, Polling Will start fighting for Italy in Astana together with the Better placed in ranking between Pedrotti and Esposito Martina 

[Makedonas 1,630]

Finally a European medal for Elisavet 

[Adriano 462]

Terrible draw and terrible start. (Kuczera, Wroblewska, Podolak). 

Now we are going to have 3 people only..

Totally unlucky.

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15 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

Now, honestly, can Zachová be another medal candidate in Paris together with Krpálek? 😁

no, I think it would be a huge upset, if she medals in Paris

 

yesterday she was smart and lucky to win the quarterfinal fight vs  Russo in only 18 seconds...should the bout go the distance, I don't think she would have won that

 

she's definitely a good player, but not that good (but in judo anything can happen, especially in this -63kg class, which is one of the most unpredictable behind the 2/3 big favourites...so, don't rule anything out)

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last day of action in the individual competition...

 

 

women's -78kg

Gold:  Audrey Tcheumeo

Silver:  Anna-Maria Wagner

Bronze:  Aline Boehm &  Inbar Lanir

 

women's +78kg

Gold:  Raz Hershko

Silver:  Julia Tolofua

Bronze:  Lea Fontaine &  Kayra Ozdemir

 

men's -90kg

Gold:  Eljan Hajiyev

Silver:  Krisztian Toth

Bronze:  Lasha Bekauri &  Alex Cret

 

men's -100kg

Gold:  (RUS) Matvey Kanikovskiy

Silver:  Ilia Sulamanidze

Bronze:  Michael Korrel &  Gennaro Pirelli

 

men's +100kg

Gold:  (RUS) Inal Tasoev

Silver:  Guram Tushishvili

Bronze:  (RUS) Tamerlan Bashaev &  Marius Fizel @hckošice