The world champion in -90 Kg, Nikoloz Sherazadishvili, will lead the Spanish judo team that will compete in Such, formed by seven judocas among which are also the other medalists of this year’s World Cup in Budapest, Ana Perez (payment -52), Julia Figueroa (bronze -48) and Francisco Garrigós (bronze -60).
The Spanish Judo Federation (RFEJYDA) presented this Friday to its delegation in the Japanese capital, which will be completed with Alberto Piper, bronze in the 2021 European Championship in Lisbon in -66 Kg, Maria Bernabéu (-70), which was a diploma (4th) in Rio 2016, and Cristina Cabaña, silver at the 2020 European Open Tournament (-63).
The president of the RFEJYDA, Juan Carlos Boats, assured that it is “a team with incredible talent,” in which “there are five heads of series”, to try to achieve a medal that Spanish judo has not achieved in some Games since Sydney 2000.
“I am convinced that the results are going to be spectacular”He said during the presentation through the organism’s YouTube channel.
Niko Shera, first two-time Spanish judo world champion, confirmed that after Tokyo he will change weight for the next Olympic preparation cycle: “I’m going to change category 100%”, While Cristina Cabaña, the last confirmed of the expedition, confessed to living with uncertainty the days before the confirmation of her passport to Tokyo 2020. “They were tough days. We took an excel and did the math, but it wasn’t safe. I did not stop training, but I trained better when I knew I was going to go, “he said.
The president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and former president of the RFEJYDA, Alexander White, expressed his confidence in the team. “I never remember that we reached a Games with such a level. I congratulate you all“, He said
“You are in a position to win, You have shown it all year. You are a leading federation. You have a great team, you are seven gladiators. We are going for the Games, we are going for the medal, “he said.
The judo team will try to break the streak of twenty years without a podium in this discipline, since the Alicante judoka Isabel Fernandez won gold at Sydney 2000.
