The President of the Turkish Judo Federation, Sezer Huysuz, made statements on the goals of the national judokas in the upcoming tournaments.
Turkish Judo Federation chairman Sezer Huysuz said national judoists are fighting to win the right to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympics.
President Sezer Huysuz evaluated the Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi, the U23 European Championship in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Grand Slam tournaments in Azerbaijan.
Stressing the importance of the tournaments where national teams will compete for points on their journey to Paris 2024, Huysuz said: “After this period, our athletes are trying to achieve the success of representing our country at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, by getting to the top 22 in the world rankings with all the points they got in international activities.” said.
Emphasizing that every point scored in international tournaments is valuable, Huysuz said, “Although there are not many medals at the Abu Dhabi tournament, we are happy that our athletes, especially Salih Yıldız, came third with 60 kg and Hasret Yıldız the fifth place was taken in the points ranking. Our goal is to take part in the 2024 Olympic Games with a large number of athletes. ‘ he used the words.
Regarding the benefit of being world-ranked judo players, Grumpy said, “When you’re world-ranked, you get through the early rounds in tournaments. The problem is that you don’t hit your opponents in the first rounds, which gives you an advantage. We think our staff’s course in that direction is sufficient,” he said.
Noting that there are talented and young athletes in the national team pool, Huysuz continued:
“After Abu Dhabi, the Azerbaijan Grand Slam will take place next week. After that we have a group that will be camping in Japan. One of our squads will go to the European Squads Championship. The season isn’t over yet, the second period has started and while our preparations for 2023 are in full swing, our squad will leave tomorrow for the U23 European Championship in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We’re going to Bosnia with a nice group and the medals that are won there give our children confidence. Our young people have the chance to place themselves in the 2024 squad. I’m hopeful, I hope we come back with a suitable result.”
“AZERBAIJAN WILL CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF JUDO”
Speaking about the Azerbaijan Grand Slam, Huysuz said that they are always greeted with a different interest and relevance at the tournaments in the Turkish Republics: “Last week the World Cup was held in Uzbekistan and we were really in our own house. We are always intertwined with Azerbaijan. We always do duo camps and matches. We’re happy when they get medals, they’re happy when we get them.” said.
Huysuz said that Azerbaijan will celebrate its 50th anniversary in judo: “Azerbaijan is a very precious and valuable country for us.” took shape and spoke.
“WE WILL PARTICIPATE WITH 8 ATHLETES FOR THE FIRST TIME”
Huysuz reminded that national judokas have a very heavy competition program and that they will participate in another world championship about 7 months later, concluding his words as follows:
“Having gotten through the congested traffic now into January, we will enter a proper period of preparation for the 2023 World Cup. You know, our Japanese teacher Kohei Oishi has come, he has been with us for 3 months. After Azerbaijan, our team will travel to Japan on November 16th and complete a 25-day camp. After coming from Japan, we will go to Jerusalem. There is a tournament in Jerusalem where 36 of the most beautiful in the world will participate, our athletes will go here and we will participate with 8 athletes for the first time.”
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