European Open victory by Michel Adam – German Judo Federation”>Michel Adam (24) from Bundesliga club JSV Speyer celebrated a major international success and won the European Open in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina). In the weight class up to 73 kilograms, Adam defeated Oleksandr Koshliak (Ukraine) and Thelmo Gomes from Portugal in the preliminary round.
The quarterfinals were the closest, when the man from Frankenthal defeated the Frenchman Alexandre Mariac in overtime after more than seven minutes of fighting. Adam Bayram defeated Kandemir (Turkey) in the semifinals and Yannick van der Kolk (Netherlands) in the final.
Nadja Bazynski from the Speyer women’s Bundesliga squad took seven to 63 kilos. Jana Ziegler did not place in this category.
