The judoka Nikoloz Sherazadishvili, a great asset of Spanish sport at the Tokyo Olympics, won his second world title on Thursday. The Madrilenian of Georgian origin, number one in the world in the category of less than 90 kilos, beat the Uzbek Davlat Bobonov in the final by ippon and was proclaimed planetary champion for the second time, after the crown that was awarded in 2018.
After overcoming the coronavirus – he tested positive on May 13 – Niko Shera, 25, was once again crowned world champion, in Budapest, a milestone that no Spanish judoka, man or woman, had achieved until now. Miriam Blasco was proclaimed world champion in 1991 and Isabel Fernández in 1997, but Niko Shera has already achieved it twice, in a period of four years and, this time, at the gates of the Games that will be inaugurated in Tokyo within a month and a half, July 23. He will compete in the Games on July 28.
It is the fourth medal for Spain in the Judo World Cup that is being played in the Hungarian capital, after the silver of Ana Pérez (-52 kilos) and the bronzes of Fran Garrigós (-60) and Julia Figueroa (-48). The two-time world champion, the main favorite to climb to the top of the Olympic podium in the Japanese capital, defeated in the final, in the gold point, the number 13 of the world ranking. «I arrive in Budapest at 98%, with the covid forgotten and focused. One hundred percent I will only be in Tokyo, “he said in the newspaper As Niko Shera on the eve of the World Cup in Hungary, where he once again achieved glory and signed another feat in the history of Spanish sport.
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