Havana, March 8 (ACN).- Judoka Jonathan Charón recorded the best performance for Cuba on the first day of the Austrian Grand Prix (GP), an event that has the presence of more than 520 judokas from 78 countries, in search of points for the world ranking.
According to the official site of the International Federation www.ijf.org, the young Charón fell by waza-ari-awasete-ippon in the third round of the 60 kg preliminaries, against the Spanish Francisco Garrigós, first from the RM, sixth in the Olympian and multi-world champion.
In his debut, the Caribbean defeated the Israeli Lior Rafailov by wazari and in the second round he defeated the German Maximilian Heyder in the same way.
For Charón, this has been the best performance in his fourth top-level commitment so far this year with his sights set on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, after saying goodbye early in the Grand Slams of Paris, Tashkent and Baku, in that order. .
This Friday, Orlando Polanco (66 kg) also competed for Cuba and lost in his debut by hansoku-make in the Golden Rule against the German Martin Setz
This Saturday Cuba will be with Maylín del Toro (63 kg) and Magdiel Estrada (73 kg), while on Sunday it will be Iván Silva (90 kg), Andy Granda (+100 kg) and Idalis Ortiz (+78 kg).
These seven Cubans, plus Idelannis Gómez (70 kg) and Lianet Cardona (78 kg), have training bases in France (f) and Hungary (m), and previously competed in the Grand Slams of Paris, Baku and Tashkent, but none managed to get on the podium, with the highlights going to Del Toro, seventh in Paris, and Silva, fifth in Baku and Tashkent.
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