The French team can hope for two gold medals at the Grand Slam in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on Friday. Amandine Buchard (- 52 kg), reigning European champion, and Priscilla Gneto (- 57 kg) qualified for the final of their category (from 1 p.m. French time). Among the men, Romain Valadier-Picard (- 60 kg), third at Europe 2023, will fight for a bronze medal.
Astride Gneto beaten in repechage
Buchard successively eliminated the Italian Kenya Perna (ippon), the Polish Aleksandra Kaleta (waza-ari), the Japanese Kokoro Fujishiro (waza-ari) and the Emirati Khorloodoi Bishrelt (ippon). In the final, she will face Uzbek Gulkhayo Juraeva.
In the same category, Astride Gneto was beaten in repechage. Dominated in the quarter-final by Khorloodoi Bishrelt (ippon), she then lost to Fujishiro (waza-ari).
Priscilla Gneto facing the vice-world champion
For her part, Priscilla Gneto dismissed the Kyrgyz Zhanar Zholdosheva, the Russian Kseniia Galitskaia, the German Pauline Starke – all on ippon – then the Polish Arleta Podolak (waza-ari). Her opponent in the final will be the Japanese Haruka Funakubo, silver medalist at the 2023 Worlds.
Romain Valadier-Picard was beaten in the semi-final by the Georgian Giorgi Sardalashvili (waza-ari), bronze medalist at the 2023 Worlds. To leave Tashkent with a podium, he will have to beat the Russian Ayub Bliev. In -66 kg, Romaric Wend-Yam Bouda was knocked out in the first round by Murad Chopanov (waza-ari), another Russian.
2024-03-01 10:57:07
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