One silver and two bronzes at the Madrid European Open 2022

On Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 June 2022 there was the European Open in Madrid, Spain.

Italia

In Madrid 13 Italians, 2 females and 11 males competed: Giulia Pierucci (-52 kg), Linda Politi (-78 kg), Mario Petrosino (-60 kg), Luca Caggiano, Biagio D’Angelo and Samuele Facinato (-66 kg), Alessandro Magnani, Davide Ripandelli, Gabriele Sulli and Leonardo Valeriani (-73 kg), Bright Maddaloni Nosa (-81 kg), Loreno Riganò (-90 kg) and Andres Felipe Moreno (-100 kg).

Results

Italy has conquered a silver medal con Linda Politi (-78 kg), due bronze medals con Giulia Pierucci (-52 kg) and Bright Maddaloni Nosa (-81 kg) e due seventh places from Alessandro Magnani and Gabriele Sulli (-73 kg).

Linda Politi passed the first round and won against Vanessa Dureau (Fra), Yelyzaveta Lytvynenko (Ukr), in the semifinal against Eiraima Silvestre (Dom) but in the final she lost against Teresa Zenker (Ger), finishing second and still winning a prestigious and deserved respectable silver medal in the -78 kg category.

Giulia Pierucci she passed the first round, she won against Lalou Lebrun (Fra) but she lost the next match, in the quarter-finals, against Pihla Salonen (Fin), then fished out she won against Nathalie Kolein (Ger) and in the final for the medal bronze against Jade Desbuis (Fra), winning a place on the podium in the -52 kg category.

Bright Maddaloni Nosaonly 19 years old, he won against Karim Mammadov (Aze), Baptiste Pierre (Fra), Pablo Sanchez Garcia Monco (Esp) and Tim Gramkow (Ger), while in the semifinal he lost against Loic Pietri (Fra), winner of the category , and thus reached the final for the bronze against Timo Cavelius (Ger) and thus conquering another bronze medal for Italy, this time in the -81 kg category.

Alessandro Magnani won against Moussa Macalou Soucko (Esp), Artem Khomula (Ukr) and Alexandre Rubiano (Fra), in the quarter-finals he lost against Luca Otmane (Fra), bronze medalist at the end of the day, was rescued but lost against Vladyslav Kazimirov (Ukr), thus coming seventh in the standings in the -73 kg category.

Gabriele Sulli he won against Alberto Varela Ferrer (Esp), Enzo Gibelli (Fra) and Jorge Cano Garcia (Esp), but in the quarter-finals he lost against Nils Stump (Sui), winner of the day, and, recovered, he lost against Alexandre Mariac (Fra), also ranking seventh in the -73 kg category.

They lost in the third round: Luca Caggiano (-66 kg).

Luca Caggiano he won against Jose Manuel Morales Martinez (Esp) and Kimran Borchashvili (Aut) but lost the third match with Nitin Chauhan, silver medal at the end of the day in the -66 kg category.

They lost in the second round: Biagio D’Angelo and Samuele Facinato (both -66 kg), Loreno Riganò (-90 kg) and Andres Felipe Moreno (-100 kg).

Biagio D’Angelo he won against Bolat Bilal (Kaz) but lost to Lennart Slamberger (Ger).

Samuele Facinato he won against Diego Fernandez Campillo (Esp) but then lost to Ilay Yehudai (Isr).

They lost in the first round: Mario Petrosino (-60 kg) against David Ferguson (Gbr), Davide Ripandelli and Leonardo Valeriani (both -73 kg) against respectively Kuan Barys (Kaz) and Anthony Zingg (Ger), bronze medal at the end of the day.

Classification

Female ranking

-48 kg

1. Katharina Menz (Ger),
2. Laura Martinez Abelenda (Esp),
3. Melanie Vieu (Fra) and Leyla Aliyeva (Aze)

-52 kg

1. Julia Figueroa (Esp),
2. Joana Diogo (By),
3. Giulia Pierucci (Ita) and Lucia Munoz Solano (Esp)

-57 kg

1. Jana Ziegler (Ger),
2. Olivia Gertsch (Sui),
3. Tihea Topolovec (Cro) and Izaskun Ballesteros Gonzalez (Esp)

-63 kg

1. Crisitina Cabana Perez (Esp),
2. Agatha Schmidt (Ger),
3. Ariela Sanchez (Dom) and Iva Oberan (Cro)

-70 kg

1. Ai Tsunoda Roustant (Spain),
2. Maria Perez (Pur),
3. Alina Lengweiler (Sui) and Maria Bernabeu (Esp)

-78 kg

1. Teresa Zenker (Ger),
2. Linda Politi (Ita),
3. Eiraima Silvestre (Dom) and Yelyzaveta Lytvynenko (UKR)

+78 kg

1. Nisrin Bousbaa Dab (Esp),
2. Moira Morillo (Dom),
3. Tina Radic (Cro) e Sydnee Andrews (Nzl)

Male ranking

-60 kg

1. Nurdaulet Amankossov (Kaz),
2. Nazir Talibov (Aze),
3. Romaric Wend-Yam Bouda (Fra) and Maxime Merlin (Fra)

-66 kg

1. Walide Khyar (Fra),
2. Nitin Chauhan (Ind),
3. Maxime Gobert (Fra) and Michael Fryer (Gbr)

-73 kg

1. Nils Stump (Sui),
2. Joan-Benjamin Gaba (Fra),
3. Luca Otmane (Fra) and Anthony Zingg (Ger)

-81 kg

1. Loic Pietri (Fra),
2. Askerbii Gerbekov (Brno),
3. Bright Maddaloni Nosa (Ita) e Hugo Metfiot (Fra)

-90 kg

1. Tristani Mosakhlishili Mamalashvili (Esp),
2. Artem Bubyr (UKR),
3. Paul Livolsi (Fra) and Ilia Kabhuliani (Esp)

-100 kg

1. Aaron Fara (Aut),
2. Clement Delvert (From),
3. Aurelien Diesse (Fra) and Joris Agbegnenou (Fra)

+100 kg

1. Jelle Snippe (Ned),
2. Oleksii Halaka (Ukr),
3. Serafim Kompaniez (Isr) and Jonas Schreiber (Ger)

Ranking of nations

1. Spain (5-1-4-2-3),
2. Germania (3-1-2-3-3),
3. France (2-2-9-8-5)

L’Italia it is classified 9^ (0-1-2-0-2) out of 40 nations.

Information

For more information on the results you can look on the IJF website in the dedicated page: https://www.ijf.org/competition/2362/results

I thank the Italian Federation of Judo Fight Karate Martial Arts (FIJLKAM) for the photo of the podium of the -78 kg category where there is also the Italian Linda Politi on the left, silver medal.