For PSG, this 2023 Champions League (the first for women) was an important objective and the capital club, which counts in its ranks athletes like Teddy Riner or Romane Dicko, had taken 19 athletes to Belgrade, Serbia , with seven of them already qualified for the Olympics.
Among the men, who had already won this team competition in 1995 (called the European Cup at the time), a defeat in the semi-finals against the locals OJK deprived them of victory but the team succeeded to snatch bronze by beating another Serbian club, Red Star Belgrade, thanks to Teddy Riner (+90 kg) and the Georgians Tato Grigalashvili (-81 kg) and Lasha Bekauri (-90 kg).
Teddy Riner: “We had the team to get through this day”
The girls were unstoppable in the Stark Arena and won the first Champions League in their history, defeating the Bosnians of JC Bosna (3-0) in the quarter-finals then the Turks of Galatasaray (3-1). before beating JC Pontault-Combault in the final (3-0) thanks to three one-sided fights.
Olympic bronze medalist Priscilla Gneto (-57 kg), Briton Lucy Renshall (-63 kg) and European champion Marie-Ève Gahié clearly won. Another French team, Champigny, completed a 100% tricolor podium. Third place was taken by Red Star Champigny.
2023-12-09 20:00:52
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