Orlando Polanco (66 kg) fights for an Olympic ticket. Photo: IJF.
The three Cuban judokas present today on the first day of the Antalya Grand Slam fell early in their respective divisions and They were far from entering the medal discussion, a result in line with the forecasts. The tournament, with the presence of 628 competitors from 93 countries, is one of the strongest in the current campaign.
Jonathan Charón (60 kg), Orlando Polanco (66 kg) and Aleanny Carbonell (52 kg) competed for the Island this Friday, but only one of them achieved victories and accumulated important points for the Olympic qualification ranking.
This is Orlando Polanco, located in the 40th position on that list and frankly dispute for one of the places assigned to America to reach the Paris 2024 summer event.
The Antillean He opened with a couple of victories that took him to the round of 16, where he could not take advantage of his good streak and lost to the representative of Tajikistan, Obid Dzhebov, 24th in the rankings and ultimately bronze medalist in the Turkish capital. In that lawsuit ours received a couple of Ministers and saw his aspirations to continue in competition cut short.
Before, Polanco began his path successfully along that same route over the Bulgarian Boyan Yotov, and later achieve an excellent victory over the Uzbek Sardor Nurillaev, 14th in the world and silver a week ago at the Tbilisi Grand Slam. In front of him, Orlando got a minister in the eighth minute of the fight, when he was practically on the verge of losing with two shidos against him.
This result reports valuable 160 points for the Olympic ranking and will allow him to get even closer to the Canadian Julien Frascadore, momentary owner in the division of the continental quota given by the International Judo Federation to give access to the Olympic Games to the best from each geographical region who do not get their places directly.
For his part, in the 60 kg Jonathan Charón —44th on the list— could not emulate his partner and lost in his first start by hansoku make against the representative of the Netherlands, Emiel Jaring, behind him in the rankings but who now had a good performance with his tanned metal.
Meanwhile, Carbonell had an extremely difficult start against the British Chelsie Giles, number four in the Olympic ranking. Against her the Antillean had little to do and gave in for ippon in the second minute of the fight. In the end, the European woman took the silver metal.
On this first date the Russian triumphed Ayub Bliev (60 kg)the Japanese Olympic titleholder Hifumi Abe (66 kg), as well as her teammates, the world title Natsumi Tsunoda (48 kg), Uta Abe (52 kg) —also champion under the five rings— and the Canadian Christia Degushi (57 kg).
Cuba will be represented on the second day of the tournament by Magdiel Estrada (73 kg) and Maylín del Toro (63 kg). He will open against the Polish Ksawery Morka and she will open against the local Habibe Afyonlu. In both cases they must achieve victories that allow them to continue on their path.
2024-03-29 17:07:19
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