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Fran Garrigós finished seventh and Laura Martínez, in ninth place

The judokas of the Famu from Vigo who competed yesterday in the first day of the World Championships, which are held in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), failed to get into the fight for the medals.

Laura Martínez finished in ninth position in the -48 kilos category. The Famu athlete from Madrid won in the first round of group B the Tunisian Oumaima Bedioui and the Chinese Zongying Guo to later lose against the Japanese Natsumi Tsunoda.

For his part, Fran Garrigós, in the -60 kilos category, finished seventh. He competed in group B and was exempt from the first round, later defeating the Turkish Salih Yildiz and the representative of the refugee team Mohammad Rashnonezhad, to lose to the Japanese Naohisa Takato. In the playoff, he lost to Kazakh Yeldos Smetov.

Apart from the Famu athletes, Julia Figueroa could not get the bronze medal, in the -48 kilos category, losing to the Italian Assunta Scutto.

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