Following an all-French collision for the primary bronze medal, the FDI Stadium welcomed groups from Georgia and Ukraine to the tatami; Golden Gori and Judo Ukraine, to determine the second bronze medal.
The groups bowed, and left the tatami, leaving solely their +70kg girls; Sophio SOMKHISHVILI (Gori) and Ruslana BULAVINA (Ukraine) to kick off this face to face. Getting in to the second half of the competition, Somkhishvili was the one in management, biding her time earlier than she executed an ippon-scoring o uchi gari. Irakli DEMETRASHVILI (Gori) continued the heavyweight take over, scoring initially with te waza in opposition to Yevheniy BALYEVSKYY, earlier than transitioning in to ne waza for the osaekomi.
Half solution to a bronze medal, Golden Gori put ahead their -57kg consultant, Eteri LIPARTELIANI in opposition to Judo Ukraine’s Inna SHYNKARENKO. Proper from the beginning, Liparteliani demonstrated she was feeling daring and seemed for her enormous ura nage, however her first rating truly got here from an o uchi gari. As Shynkarenko realised she had nothing to lose, she nearly took a run at her opponent, who once more hooked in for a spinning o uchi gari this time, win quantity three for Golden Gori.
The strain was now on for 2024 U23 European Champion, Giorgi TERASHVILI (Gori) to finish the clear sweep and take his workforce to glory, however in his means was a troublesome opponent, Vladyslav KAZIMIROV. After an extremely robust 4 minutes of normal contest time, the -73kg males delved in to golden rating, and for one more three minutes managed to stave each other off. It was an unlucky conclusion ultimately as Kazmirov was disqualified for a head diving infringement, the final time we are going to see this on the European Judo Union Tour with the brand new guidelines getting in to impact within the Paris Grand Slam 2025. This after all meant that the fourth win went to Golden Gori, ending the bronze medal contest 4:0. Terashvili has been on a roll lately,
It’s one other win, however this one is totally different. It isn’t my very own, it isn’t my nation, however my house of Gori. It’s nice to win as a workforce, however this provides me a particular feeling. Being the fourth win is superb, I had already celebrated the remainder of my workforce and being the final one is nice. That closing was robust, I fought him earlier than and he’s a extremely good judoka so I knew it will be onerous and also you noticed, it was actually a troublesome match. Now I’m blissful to have fun one other medal with my buddies.
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Creator: Thea Cowen
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