Esposito wins silver in the -73 kg

Judo, Europeans 2022: Esposito wins silver in the -73 kg

Giovanni Esposito wins the silver medal in the -73 kg category European Senior Judo Championships 2022. The 24-year-old Neapolitan has become the protagonist of an exciting journey in which the statements in the round of 16 on the Georgian phenomenon stand out Lasha Shavdatuashvili and in the semifinals on the reigning world junior champion Adrian Sulca.

In the final the blue then played an excellent fight against the Azerbaijani Hidayat Heydarov, n.3 in the world ranking and European champion in 2017, also finding himself in clear advantage in the calculation of the penalties at the beginning of the Golden Score. After dominating the first few bars of the match, Esposito was no longer able to be effective in his attack attempts following the growth of an excellent Heydarov.