World championship – Day 3
Today we had the men under 81Kg and women under 63Kg.
Men -81Kg
This category, with 54 entrants, was dominated by the 2009 European champion from Russia, Ivan Nifontov, who at his first fight straggled against the Canadian and won by points after 5 minutes, but afterwards won all his fights with a magnificent display of Judo, throwing all his opponents by Ippon, including the Silver medallist from 2009 European championship from Italy, and the Olympic champion from Beijing from Germany. In the final he had beaten Siarhei Shundzikau from Belarus with a Sumi-gaeshi.
The Bronze medals went to Ole Bischof from Germany, and Jae-Bum Kim from Korea, the Silver medallist from Beijing.
Women -63Kg
Yoshie Ueno from Japan tool the Gold in this category after fighting 5 fights for a total of 7:11 minutes and winning all by Ippon, including one on the local Dutch girl, Elisabeth Willeboordse, the Bronze medallist from Beijing.
Willeboordse had worked much harder to reach the final, beating the Mongolian, Australian, and Alice Schlesinger from Israel, to whom she lost the Bronze medal fight at the last European championship. The semi-final against the European champion and Olympic Bronze medallist from Athens, Urska Zolnir from Slovenia, went into golden score and was won by a shido.
The Bronze medals went to Claudia Malzahn from Germany, who beat the Slovenian with Osae-komi and to 21 year old Bronze medallist in the last 2 European championships, Alice Schlesinger from Israel, who fought beautiful and applied great tactics to beat the Russian by Waza-ari and Yuko.
Tags: 63Kg, 81Kg, Golden score, Osae-komi
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