The Argentine Paralympic Judo Team, made up of blind and visually impaired athletes, after a year and a half due to the pandemic, returned today to represent us in an important international competition, highlighting the work of Eduardo Gauto who won the Bronze medal.
In the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan, which takes place in Baku, its capital, and with athletes from 40 countries, Eduardo Gauto in a magnificent job returned to get on the podium.
Gauto, in the up to 66 kg category, recovered from an adverse start, losing to the representative of Kazakhstan, and reached third place on the podium after beating the highly competitive judokas from Japan, Georgia, the United States and Ukraine.
Eduardo, already classified for the Tokyo Paralympic Games, continues to grow constantly, before the pandemic he won the Gold medals at the Pan American Games in Lima and Montreal, and today he achieved a great sporting achievement, in a tournament that brings together the best judokas in the world. world.
In addition, Laura González, Rocío Ledesma, Fabián Ramírez and David Gómez fought.
Laura beat the representative of Belarus and then lost to the judoka of Turkey and in the playoff against the Brazilian.
Rocío was defeated by the judoka of Japan and Ramírez and Gómez by the representatives of Italy and Spain, respectively, being eliminated.
After the Grand Prix, our Selection will participate in a training camp in Baku itself and will travel to Birmingham, England on June 15, to star in the second event of this scoring tour, prior to the Paralympic Games.
The delegation, which will return on June 22, is made up of coaches Guillermo Traba and Wálter Dzurovcin and by judokas Eduardo Gauto (category up to 66 Kgs.), Already classified for the Games, Rocío Ledesma (up to 52 Kgs.), Laura González (up to 57 Kgs.), Nadia Boggiano (up to 63 Kgs.), David Gómez (up to 60 Kgs.) And Fabián Ramírez (up to 73 Kgs.).
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