Taiwan’s “Judo God” Yang Yongwei yesterday (6th) in the men’s 60kg bronze medal match at the 2022 World Judo Championships, successfully defeated Israel’s Yam Wolczak, and became the first male player in Taiwan’s judo history to win the World Championships. Personal career best.
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The World Championships were held in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. World No. 1 Yang Yongwei was listed as the top seed of the conference. Yang Yongwei, who won No. 7 in the 2019 World Championships, took part in the Tokyo Olympics silver medal and the halo of No. 1 in the world this year. He eliminated British player Samuel Hall, Mongolian player Sumiyabazar Enkhtaivan and Kazakh star Yeldos Smetov all the way to the top four.
The top 4 Yang Yongwei faced the famous Japanese star Naoso Takato. In fact, Yang Yongwei lost to Naoshou Takato in last year’s Tokyo Olympics final and took the silver medal. At that time, the two sides fought until the golden score of the playoff to decide the winner. Yang Yongwei swallowed 3 coaches. “Silver Hate” left unwilling tears. This time the two faced off again, and the regular season was still difficult to distinguish. Yang Yongwei only lost in the golden scoring system (extension) stage, which also made him miss the chance to advance to the final.
Fortunately, in the bronze medal match, Yang Yongwei defeated Israel’s opponent Yam Wolczak and became the first Taiwanese man. In the past, only female player Zhou Yuping in Taiwan won the bronze medal in the women’s 48kg weight class at the 1987 World Championships.
Yang Yongwei’s performance has skyrocketed since he won the silver in the 2020 Düsseldorf Judo Grand Slam, and he has won medals in 10 consecutive competitions. Including participating in the Antalya Judo Grand Slam Men’s 60kg gold medal in April, winning the silver medal in the Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam in June, and winning the bronze medal in the Asian Championships in August.
In fact, since the end of the Olympic Games at the end of last year, Yang Yongwei has revealed that the goal of ranking No. 1 in the world and winning the gold medal at the World Championships are the two major goals he set this year. Now he has completed his dream of becoming No. 1 in the world. , Unfortunately, the World Championships are still a little short of the goal.
