The Madrid native Nikoloz Sherazadishvili won the silver medal at the Portuguese Judo Grand Prix, in the category up to 100 kilos, a promising start to the season for the two-time world champion, who aspires to step on the podium in the Paris Olympic Games.
Shera, Now 26th in the ranking after a 2023 season marked by his knee operation, he advanced through the Odivelas team with superiority, demonstrating that, as he said a few days before, he feels in a great moment of form and with the desire to “get results from the beginning”.
Nikoloz Sherazadishvili |COE
First he beat the Maltese Isaac Bezzina; then to dutch Simeon Catharina; and in the round of 16 the French Francis Damier, to everyone for ippon.
The Mongolian awaited him in the quarterfinal round Gonchigsuren Batkhuyag, first top-ten he faced (9th). But the Madrid native of Georgian origin did not let himself be intimidated and once again scored a ippon which catapulted him to the semi-finals.
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Against the Brazilian Rafael Buzacarini, eighteenth in the ranking, Shera repeated the result and secured the final, in which he met the neutral individual athletel (Russian) Matvey Kanikovskiy, sixth in the world. Both shared bronze in the last European championships, in November in Montpellier (France).
But in the final the gold went to Kanikovskiy, that was imposed on Nico Shera by waza-ari The Madrid native added 490 points in the Olympic ranking heading to Paris. He won his fifth medal in a Grand Prix event.
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2024-01-31 16:19:22
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