Sports Writing, Aug 5 (EFE) that metal against the Croatian Lara Cvejetko, runner-up in the world in 2022.
The 21-year-old judoka from Lleida entered the fight for the medals as the winner of group C, in which she beat both the Dutch Kim Pollin and the French Margaux Pinot by “waza-ari” and then, in the quarterfinals final, to the Croatian Barbara Matic.
In the semifinals, Tsunoda faced the Greek Elisavet Testsidou, gold this year in the Grand Slam of Kazakhstan and Tbilisi, who defeated her by “waza-ari”, for which she went to the playoffs in which she faced the Croatian Lara Cvjetko, runner-up in the world in 2022 and before whom she fell by ‘ippon’.
Ai Tsunoda, of a Japanese father and a French mother, was gold this year in the Grand Slam in Paris and bronze in Antalya and in the world championships held last May in Doha Tsunoda reached the round of 16.
In the event in Qatar, she was eliminated against the Russian Madina Taimazova, back in the competition after the lifting of sanctions against athletes from her country for the invasion of Ukraine.
On this Saturday’s day in Budapest, Sarai Padilla was eliminated in the second match of the -63 kilos group stage after beating the Australian Katharina Haecker and losing to the Japanese Takaichi Mikuy and Cristina Cabana her first in the same weight with the Israeli Kerem Pimo.
In the men’s category, José María Mendiola (-81kg) overcame his first duel against the Hungarian Marcell Demeter and in the second he lost to the Brazilian Guilherme Schimidt and Salvador Cases (-73kg) was eliminated after his first confrontation with the Hungarian Aron Szabo. EFE
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2023-08-05 16:37:20
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