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at least we already have 1 Gold Medal not going to Japan after Day 1... last year it took 3 days and the women's -57kg to find a different winner...

women's -48kg Gold: Daria Bilodid Silver: Funa Tonaki Bronze: Paula Pareto & Otgontsetseg Galbadrakh men's -60kg Gold: Naohisa Takato Silver: Robert Mshvidobadze Bronze: Ryuju Nagayama & Amiran Papinashvili

quick recap... women's -48kg semifinals Urantsetseg Munkhbat vs Funa Tonaki Paula Pareto vs Daria Bilodid repechage Catarina Costa vs Julia Figueroa (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Pareto / Bilodid) Marusa Stangar vs Otgontsetseg Galbadrakh (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Munkhbat / Tonaki) men's -60kg semifinals Ryuju Nagayama vs Naohisa Takato Robert Mshvidobadze vs Amiran Papinashvili repechage Kim Yong Gwon vs Karamat Huseynov (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Mshvidobadze / Papinashvili) Lee Ha Rim vs Eric Takabatake (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Nagayama / Takato)

Tonaki wins the women's -48kg pool B...she'll face Munkhbat in the top half semifinal match...

and Munkhbat is the 3rd girl qualified to the seminals in the -48kg class...

men's pool A final: Nagayama vs Kim

pool B final among the women: Tonaki vs Figueroa

wow! 5:12 of golden score in rd #3 between Tonaki and Kang... eventually it was the Japanese girl who won (by osaekomi) and went through to the pool final...

Takato looks in top shape...he easily destroyed all the field in pool B (included Huseynov in the final) and he's through to the semifinals...

women's -48kg, pool A final: Munkhbat vs Costa

yesss!!!! Bilodid easily beat Galbadrakh (KAZ) in the pool D final and will face Pareto in the semifinal of the bottom half of the draw...

Pareto is the 1st semifinalist in the women's -48kg...

men's -60kg pool B final: Takato vs Huseynov

bottom half of the men's -60kg class...we have our semifinal bout: Mshvidobadze vs Papinashvili... menawhile in the women's -48kg, the pool D final will be between Bilodid and Galbadrakh

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women's pool C final: Pareto vs Marusa Stangar

and we have the first quarterfinals pairings in the men's class... in the bottom half of the draw, in fact, we have Mshvidobadze vs Lee as the pool C final and Papinashvili vs Takabatake as the pool D final...

in this case, it did't go that well for the home team...Pareto just destroyed the Azeri girl...meanwhile among the men, Safarov was eliminated by Papinashvili (GEO)... 10 intense minutes ended up with mixed feelings for the home crowd, I guess...

wow! what a match and what an an ippon by Huseynov over Mudranov...the home fans are on their feet...and rightly so... and now the women's version of the fight AZE vs the Olympic Champion...Gurbanli vs Pareto...

day 1 already over for Italy...both Carlino (men's -60kg) and Milani (women's -48kg) lost in the first round (against not so strong opponents, which makes it even more disappointing)... I think our participation would eventually be "cosmetic"... we have too few athletes at the start after very doubtful selections...and not so competitive... I hope Murakami's time as the head coach of our team would be over by the end of this championship...he's definitely not giving anything good to our team...

Super Six Day #2 Results Czech Republic b. Russia 5-4 Italy b. Great Britain 6-0 Czech Republic b. Greece 6-5 Italy b. Netherlands 4-3

Super Six Day #2 Results Italy b. Belgium 7-4 Spain b. Czech Republic 12-7 Netherlands b. Germany 13-1

Day #3 (Women's Wrestling) Finals -50kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs / -55kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs / -59kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs / -68kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs / -76kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs & vs /

Day #2 (Greco-Roman) Medallists -60kg Gold: Kerem Kamal Silver: Vijay Vijay Bronze: Kazuki Yabe & Alì Reza Nejati -67kg Gold: Malkhas Amoyan Silver: Makhmut Bakhshilloev Bronze: Yousef Hosseinvand & Parviz Nasibov -72kg Gold: Amin Kavianinejad Silver: Nikoloz Tchikaidze Bronze: Erkan Ergen & Magomed Yarbilov -82kg Gold: Aleksandr Andreevitch Komarov Silver: Andrew Douglas Berreyesa Bronze: Istvan Takacs & Muhutdin Saricicek -97kg Gold: Arvi Martin Savolainen Silver: Markus Ragginger Bronze: Artur Sargsian & Balint Vaczi p.s. @MHSN please, tell me if the Iranian names have to be changed (always because of that thing of the wrong interpretation on their passports)...

actually this is the most important competition outside the Pro Tour (WSL), which is reserved to a small number of surfers coming almost only from the 4/5 powerhouses of the sport (26 are the "regulars")... p.s. Igarashi is a WSL Tour member...so, Muniz's success can be described as "very prestigious"... p.p.s. next year, this same competition will be the key event to earn an Olympic spot (apart from those reserved to the WSL tour specialists)...