The third and closing day of the Cadet European Championships 2024 noticed the remaining weight classes go face to face for the 5 gold medals.
Within the -81kg class, there have been some extremely shut contests main as much as the semi finals. The primary of the semi finals was between Abu-Bakr KANTAEV (AIN) and Kenzo CREMERS (BEL). Kantaev got here in to throw with sode tsurikomi goshi, however felt the resistance and adjusted the route to catch the surface leg, scoring ippon and a spot within the closing. He’ll face the powerhouse that’s Mykhailo SOLIANYK (UKR), who threw Ivano DJINKIC (BIH) with a devastating maki komi.
There was a fantastic hope for the house consultant of the -70kg class, Nadie JAAFAR (BUL) who was dealing with her extraordinarily tall opponent Zlata SUPRUNENKO (AIN) fairly nicely, however a mistake was made and Suprunenko managed to safe the shime waza. On the opposite aspect of the draw, present Cadet World Champion, Aleksandra ANDRIC (SRB) took on Anna OLIINYK-KORNIIKO (UKR). Each have nice technical capability, nevertheless it was Andric that executed the profitable uchi mata, and she’s going to now look to finish her cadet assortment.
Within the -90kg class, a nice shock got here from WRL #38 Majus GENYS (LTU) who discovered his approach to the semi closing towards the #8 seed, Tomass MANFELDS (LAT). The preliminary rating for Genys was gained with an enormous o soto gari, and feeling the power there, he tried to repeat the assault however Manfelds was prepared. It didn’t matter to Genys who swiftly modified route, throwing his opponent ahead with harai maki komi. The Lithuanian athlete will now face Dmytro LEBID (UKR) who threw Gaya SONNTAG (FRA) for ippon with an enormous o goshi.
Prime seed Zuzanna BANASZEWSKA (POL) continued on her mission to characterize her rating precisely, and threw Anna PETRUNINA (AIN) with an ippon-scoring uchi mata within the +70kg semi closing. Assembly Banaszewska there’s quantity two seed, Leonie MINKADA-CAQUINEAU (FRA) who over rolled and countered a weak assault from Emma-Melis AKTAS (EST), earlier than ending the competition in osae komi.
One other high seed was a transparent expertise at this time, the +90kg Marek-Adrian MASAK (EST) and made his approach to the European closing by defeating Yauheni MORAU (AIN) with o uchi gari. There’s nonetheless another step to go and he could discover nice issue. Subhan AKHUNDOV (AZE) dominated his semi closing towards Nodar KOBALADZE (GEO), first scoring with harai maki komi, after which tried it for a second time, however modified route to throw backwards. An enormous win for akhundov, and now he’s looking down the highest seed for the gold medal.
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Writer: Thea Cowen
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