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that's great...more than great, enormous... but still, our main target was to make the top 6 with the team...and of course we failed big time (even if we have to say that we've been very unlucky with the injuries...first Zorzi in the week before the world champs, then Gaudiano yesterday)...

and as usual Italy wasted a 7-5 lead (giving up 2 solo homers) in the 9th inning and an 8-7 advantage in the top of the 10th and finally lost once again against their arch-rival from the Netherlands...

Day #4 (Women's Wrestling) Finals -53kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs / -57kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs / -62kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs / -65kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs / -72kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs /

Day #3 (Women's Wrestling) Medallists -50kg Gold: Yui Susaki Silver: Ellen Riesterer Bronze: Marina Zakshevskaya & Veronika Gurskaya -55kg Gold: Saki Igarashi Silver: Khaliunaa Bayaraa Bronze: Ekaterina Verbina & Hou Jiajing -59kg Gold: Anastasia Nichita Silver: Sae Nanjo Bronze: Tetiana Rizhko & Anshu Anshu -68kg Gold: Khanum Velieva Silver: Macey Ellen Kilty Bronze: Miwa Morikawa & Alina Rudnytska Levytska -76kg Gold: Huang Yuanyuan Silver: Elmira Khalaeva Bronze: Yasuha Matsuyuki & Denise Sabina Makota Stroem

Super Six Day #3 Results Russia b. Greece 7-2 Czech Republic b. Great Britain 2-0 Italy b. Russia 8-0 Netherlands b. Great Britain 8-3 Current Rankings Czech Republic, 4W - 0L Italy, 3W - 1L Netherlands, 2W - 1L Great Britain & Russia, 1W - 3L Greece, 0W - 3L

Super Six Day #3 Results Czech Republic b. Belgium 15-10 Spain b. Germany 9-1 Netherlands b. Italy 9-8

c'mon! he could have gone playing in another league...in the KHL, Sweden, Switzerland salaries are quite good...he wouldn't get homeless for sure...

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...