It opens with a nice podium on the first day for Italy Grand Slam di Dushanbe 2024the penultimate event of the judo World Tour approaching the World Championships in Abu Dhabi. Veronica Toniolo he contested a high-profile race in Tajikistan, winning a precious one third place in the -57 kg category and above all approaching the certainty of the Olympic pass (now a formality) for Paris.
The girl from Trieste, born in 2003, ranked third seeded in the draw, began her journey today in the round of 16 by beating the Portuguese veteran Telma Monteiro in the Golden Score by hansoku make and defeating the Chinese Cai Qi by waza-ari in the quarter-finals. In the semi-final the reigning junior world champion lost to the strong Frenchwoman Sarah Leonie Cysique (waza-ari decisive on a counter technique), and then reacting in the best way by getting the better of the young Turkmen in the final Maysa Pardayeva for waza-ari at the end of regular time.
Negative results in the men’s field for the two men from Messina competing today, with Angelo Pantano who lost a good chance to get closer to the Olympic qualification zone in the -60 kg category, finishing in a rather disappointing seventh place. After brilliantly overcoming the Mongolian Mendsaikhan Nyamsuren by ippon on his debut, the 26-year-old Italian then lost in the quarterfinals to the Kazakh Magzhan Shamshadin and in the repechage to the French Maxime Merlin.
Nothing to do too Elios Manzi, fresh from the splendid European bronze in Zagreb and third seeded in the -66 kg category, immediately eliminated due to fines (at least one of which was very fiscal) by the Tajik host Mulorajab Khalifaev. However, the internal ballot with Matteo Piras in this category towards the Olympics remains very open. Everything will be decided in the next few weeks between the Grand Slam in Astana and the World Cup in Abu Dhabi.
Below is the summary of the podiums of the first day of the Judo Grand Slam Dushanbe 2024:
-48 kg F
1 Bavuudorj (Mgl)
2 Praying (Tour)
3 Moiseeva (Ain) and Nikolic (Srb)
-52 kg F
1 Kocher (Sui)
2 Ndiaye (Sui)
3 Borisova (Ain) and Jung (Kor)
-57 kg F
1 Klimkait (Can)
2 Cysique (Fra)
3 Toniolo (Ita) and Lkhagvatogoo (Mgl)
-60 kg M
1 Power (Tjk)
2 Shamshadin (Kaz)
3 Saaev (Ain) e Kondo (Jpn)
-66 kg M
1 Rahimov (Tkm)
2 Dzhebov (Tjk)
3 Chernykh (Ain) e Khalifaev (Tjk)
2024-05-03 15:08:13
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