Cordoba-born Julia Figueroa returns to battle on the international tatami in a new edition of the European Judo Championship held in Madrid. The great novelty is that the Cordoban judoka will compete in the -52 kilogram weight after having left behind the -48 kilogram weight, a category that she had already intended to abandon since October 2021 and it will be in this tournament when she meets the goal of she.
Julia Figueroa will debut this Saturday June 11 from 9:00 directly in the second round against the young woman from Saudi Arabia, Hessah Almelaiki. The 23-year-old judoka has not yet managed to add any international medal to her record, so the experienced Cordovan starts as a favorite to qualify for the quarterfinals, in which if she passes the round, she will have to face the one that comes out winner of the duel between the French Weill Dit Morey and the American Lavelle.
After hanging a meritorious bronze medal around his neck when he fell in the playoff against the Serbian Milica Nikolic At the European Championship in Sofia (Bulgaria), a tournament in which she showed that she is one of the best fighters on the continent in the -48 kilograms, now the Cordovan woman will defend herself at a higher weight in which she hopes to establish herself. In addition, starting this June, Julia Figueroa will begin to score points in the Olympic race, for which she will launch the ranking that should take the judoka of the Valencia Terra i Mar club to what would be their third Olympic Games, those of paris 2024.
Julia Figueroa is the current number ten in the world and she is a fixture in the Spanish call, as she is the best Spanish judoka in -48 kilograms. Before the Bulgarian championship, her last international appearance took place in mid-February at the Grand Slam in Tel Aviv (Israel) and the Cordovan won a bronze medal, while in December she made her debut in the weight -52 kilograms in the national championship and took another bronze medal.
