World championship – Day 4

Today we had the men under 90Kg and women under 70Kg, and under 78Kg.

Men -90Kg
This category provided a few upsets when the World champion under 81Kg, Camilo Tiago from Brazil, lost to Kyu-Won Lee from Korea by Ippon after less than 2 minutes. The other upsets include the Silver European medallist, Varlam Liparteliani from Georgia, who lost to Illias Iliadis, the 2-time Silver World medallist from the last 2 World championships and the Olympic champion from Athens under 81Kg in the first fight, who in turn lost to Milan Randl from Slovakia in the next round.

In the semi-finals we saw the Korean fight Hesham Mesbah from Egypt, who won the Bronze medal in last year’s Olympic games, and Kiril Denisov from Russia fighting Dilshod Choriev from Uzbekistan.
The 20 year old Korean, executing his drop-Seoi-nage threw the Egyptian to a Waza-ari, and an Ippon to progress to eh final to meet the Russian, who beat the Uzbek by Yuko after 5 minutes. In the final, the Korean threw the Uzbek with his Seoi-nage for an Ippon after 2:13 minutes to win the Gold.
The Egyptian and Uzbek won the Bronze after beating the Slovakian and Spaniard respectively.

Women -70Kg
This category was dominated by Yuri Alvear from Colombia who finished all her fights with an Ippon. Alvear has improved significantly after finishing 7th in last year’s Olympic Games. On her way to win the gold, she had beaten the local Edith Bosch, who finished second in Athens and third in Beijing, by Ippon 1 second to the end of the fight. In the final she met Anett Meszaros from Hungary and after leading by a Waza-Ari, threw her opponent with Morote-gari for an Ippon 3 seconds to the end of the fight.

The Bronze medals went to Houda Miled from Tunisia, and Mina Watanabe from Japan.

Women -78Kg
The Dutch finally got their first gold medal at this championship, when Marhinde Verkerk beat Maryna Pryshchepa from Ukraine. Her way was long and hard, as each of her fights went for the full 5 minutes and 2 of them went into golden score. Nevertheless, the crowd was ecstatic as she was declared the World champion.

The Bronze medals went to Heide Wollert from Germany and Yi Sun from China.

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