Judo continues to bring joy to the Navarrese sports scene. If in recent months it has been Ariane Toro Soler who has achieved his first major international triumphs – with a bronze in the Paris Grand Slam and another third place in Baku – in his fight to attend the Paris Olympic Games, this Saturday, March 16, another young Navarrese judoka was the protagonist of another European success. The Pamplona Paula Beorlegui Osés signed an excellent performance in the Riga European Cup and, after almost reaching the final after a brilliant tournament, he ended up winning the bronze medal within the weight of -52 kilos in the Latvian appointment. Is he second senior podium in a continental event for the judoka from Pamplona, 20 years old (VIII-6-2003) and who occupies 198th place in the world ranking, after the bronze achieved last year at the European event in Malaga and the runner-up achieved in the Birmingham Junior European Cup in June 2023.
Third place and good sensations of Beorlegui in the capital of Latvia are an endorsement of the work he has been doing in a season in which he had fallen in the first round of Warsaw and in the second Gyor. “The truth is that I ended up happy, it’s good from time to time to see that you are capable of achieving it,” commented the athlete after the Latvian tournament.
In her first fight, within the second round of Pool C, the Navarrese judoka debuted with a victory against Israeli Paz Kafriwhich allowed her to finish first in that block of the competition and access the semifinals in which she faced the British Tatum Keenbronze last February in Tunisia and who ended up taking silver yesterday after losing in the final against the German Chiara Serra.
Beorlegui could not surprise his rival, who achieved two decisive ‘waza ari’, and faced the fight for el bronze before the Italian Alessia Tortorici. A rival whom he surpassed, with an ‘ippon’ after signing a ‘waza ari’ in 2:28 of combat.
2024-03-17 04:35:12
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