Laura Vazquez He is experiencing one of the best moments of his still incipient sporting career. The Vigo judoka conquered yesterday for the second time the gold medal in the -63 kilos category of the European Under-23 Championship, wound that he had already achieved last year and that adds to the junior continental title that he won in 2022 and the runner-up in the junior world championship in 2021.
At 22 years old, the Famu de Frutos athlete faced her second and last U-23 European Championship in the Polish town of Pila, and confirmed the forecasts that placed her as one of the main candidates for the first place on the podium at defeat the Belgian Alessia Corrao in the final -by ippon.
To reach that last fight, Laura first defeated the Georgian Gvantsa Mtchedlishvili and then defeated the Italian Carlotta Avanzato, victories that allowed them to win in group B and qualify for the semifinals without going through the play-offs.
In the first duel for the medals, she beat the Romanian Florentina Ivanescu, while Corrao eliminated the Polish Martyna Glubiak. And in the final, the woman from Vigo showed herself superior to the Belgian and ended up beating her by ippon to revalidate the continental title.
In this way, Laura Vázquez finishes the competition in the age categories in the best possible way and from now on she will focus only on the absolute tournaments, in which it has also achieved good results recently.
In fact, just a week ago it conquered the gold medal in the same category (-63) at the European Open in Rome and, at the end of October, he won silver at the European Open in Sarajevo, where he also reached the final.
The Viguesa’s next objective will be Absolute Spanish Championshipwhich will be held on the 30th of this month in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the best specialists in the country in the running.
Another judoka from Famu de Frutos participated yesterday in the U23 European Championship in Pila (Poland), although she did not manage to get that far. The Rosaleira Verónica Pérez, who competed in the -57 kilo category, could not advance from the first round, in which she lost to the Greek Christina Papadopoulou.
