Granda won her second medal of the year. Photo: IJF.
The Cuban world champion, Andy Granda (+100 kg), won the bronze medal this Sunday at the Tbilisi Grand Slamhis second medal on the world circuit this year and a result that practically ensures him for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Granda—fifth in the world ranking before this performance— He defeated the Slovakian Marius Fizel by ippon in the fight for third place in the tournament. Before that challenge, ours enjoyed a first success over the Polish Kacper Szczurowski, and then repeated the victory against the German Losseni Kone.
However, the also double starter of the Pan American Games lost in the semifinals against the Azeri veteran Ushangi Kokauri, this time due to accumulation of penalties. Eventually His rival took the silver medal, in a division dominated by local star Guram Tushishvili.
Para Grande This bronze joins the silver achieved a few days ago at the Austrian Grand Prixtwo performances that consolidate him at the top of the world ranking and practically guarantee him a ticket to the summer event next summer.
For its part, In Tbilisi Cuba also enjoyed the fifth place of Idalys Ortiz (+78 kg). Ours—25th place on the Olympic classification list—anchored itself in that position after losing in the bronze discussion to the Italian Asya Tavano, a young girl of only 21 years old who has been on the rise since the previous season. In front of her Idalys received three warnings that decreed her defeat by hansoku make.
The Creole debuted in this tournament with three consecutive victories. The first of them by wazari against the Russian Anastasiia Kholodilina, and the second for fast ippon about the Chinese Xin Su, eighth in the world ranking. Those pair of successes guaranteed her access to the quarterfinals, where she also defeated the South Korean Hyeonji Lee after scoring two goals against her. Ministers.
Then, Ortiz faced the Frenchwoman Coralie Hayme, ranked 21st in the world rankings, in one of the semifinals. and who took success after immobilizing the Cuban.
Little by little Idalys Ortiz rises in the ranking. Photo: IJF.
Iván Felipe Silva (90 kg) and Lianet Cardona (78 kg) also competed on this day, but They were unable to advance to decisive stages.
Silva was below expectations and after beating local Luka Babutsidze in his first outing, He then gave in against Azeri Eljan Hajiyevdouble world bronze medalist among juniors and now silver in this tournament.
For its part, Lianet Cardona could not do much against the Kosovar favorite Loriana Kuka and fell by ippon.
The Tbilisi Grand Slam was dominated by the host country, with four golds and one bronze. Behind were Spain (2-0-0) and Canada (1-2-1). Cuba finally anchored in 18th place.
In video, one of the Idalys projections:
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Idalys ORTIZ🇨🇺 pic.twitter.com/Tqb5QFmDYW— 2024judo (@1974ay1) March 24, 2024
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