Judo IJF World Championships 2024

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men's -73kg

 

Gold:  Hidayat Heydarov

Silver:  Tatsuki Ishihara

Bronze:  Ankhzaya Lavjargal &  Nils Stump

 

Full Draw

https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=3

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women's -57kg

 

Gold:  Huh Mimi

Silver:  Christa Deguchi

Bronze:  Momo Tamaoki &  Jessica Klimkait

 

Full Draw

https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=10

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very satisfied with Savita russo's outing Today

 

she did what she had to do, dominating  Corrao and not giving an easy time to the (physically) stronger and more and more experienced  Horikawa, who had to fight until 1 minute into the Golden Score to win the bout

 

unfortunately, I don't think it's enough to get into the Continental Repechage ranking 

 

but the mistake it's not hers, it's our coaching crew that left her out of the Grand Prix/Grands Slam tournaments in the past few months, just to bring Favorini to the competitions where she always failed to deliver (and Today in fact she got another embarassing elimination in the first fight against a girl from )

 

this is a bitterly wasted chance  

 

having said that, the draw sometimes can be a true crime, when some of the best fighters are not at the top of the multi-year rankings for some reason

 

in the -63kg in fact, we had a pool (so, a quarterfinal bracket) with all this women:  Agbegnenou,  Beauchemin-Pinard,  Horikawa,  Timo and the recently crowned European Champion  Zachova all together  

 

therefore, we can't be surprised if we have one of the most improbable lineup ever in the medal matches  

 

 

in the men's -81kg, instead, no big surprise among the medal candidates

 

and shame for  Antonio Esposito's mistake that cost him the win vs  Gochilaidze, who then went on until the semis (where he lost a wonderful match vs  -RUS- Arbuzov) and will fight in a few minutes for the Bronze medal

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Today's Gold Medal matches (session starts @ 4 p.m. CET, live on Discovery+/Eurosport when not exclusively on another National TV) are:

 

women's -63kg:  Joanne Van Lieshout vs  Angelika Szymanska  @Adriano @rybak @Jinzha @CCB @heywoodu @all Polish and Dutch friends

 

men's -81kg:  (RUS) Timur Arbuzov vs  Tato Grigalashivili 

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@phelps Angelika is our best chance for medal in Paris in any combat sport and first judo medal in 2000s, I hope that she will repeat this result in 2 months  

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7 minutes ago, rybak said:

@phelps Angelika is our best chance for medal in Paris in any combat sport and first judo medal in 2000s, I hope that she will repeat this result in 2 months  

good luck! 

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Van Lieshout the first Dutch female World Championship since 2009 (when Marhinde Verkerk won in Rotterdam).

 

 

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18 minutes ago, Noorderling29 said:

Van Lieshout the first Dutch female World Championship since 2009 (when Marhinde Verkerk won in Rotterdam).

 

 

Italy in Monday was won their first World Championship gold medal since 1991!!!

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2 hours ago, Noorderling29 said:

Van Lieshout the first Dutch female World Championship since 2009 (when Marhinde Verkerk won in Rotterdam).

 

 

And she's only 21! Very impressive result and very promising growth in her second senior year.

 

I thought Clarisse Agbegnenou was the medal favorite in this class, but she was knocked out early today.

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3 hours ago, copravolley said:

Italy in Monday was won their first World Championship gold medal since 1991!!!

and we're still without a single gold medal among the men, all those we won are in the female division