Fabio Basile‘s path in the Judo World Tour restarts from a good fifth place in the prestigious Grand Slam of Paris 2022, more than six months after the bitter disappointment of the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. The native talent of Rivoli, returning after a long stop, can be satisfied with today’s performance in view of the next appointments and the new Olympic qualification period.
The Italian judoka, standard bearer of the Army, played a good race defeating the Malagasy Maminirina Andriamanantsoa (waza-ari and ippon in 31 ″), the French host Luca Otmane (ippon di o uchi gari) and the very strong Mongolian No. 2 in the world Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir (waza-ari by seoi nage) before giving way in the semifinals to a great champion like the Japanese Soichi Hashimoto (world gold in 2017) for waza-ari at the Golden Score.
Unfortunately the Rio 2016 Olympic champion in the 66 kg he was then surprised in the final for the 3rd / 5th place by the transalpine Benjamin Axus, immediately suffering a waza-ari (very close to the ippon) and no longer able to overturn the outcome of the fight within 4 minutes of regulation. Eliminated in the first round instead the only other blue in the race today, Andrea Carlino, immediately left the scene in the 60 kg at the hands of the French Vincent Limare (ippon with 57 ″ from the end).
Judo, Grand Slam Paris 2022: Basile and Mungai return to the competition after Tokyo, Parlati looking for confirmations in the 90 kg
Apart from Italy, the super-challenge in the final of the women’s 52 kg between the French is worth mentioning Amandine Buchard (silver in Tokyo in this category) and the Kosovar Distria Krasniqi (reigning Olympic champion of 48 kg), which ended in favor of the local darling after almost 4 minutes of Golden Score.
Below is the summary of the podiums of the first day of the judo Grand Slam Paris 2022:
-48 kg F
1 Tsunoda (Jpn)
2 Bavuudorj (Mgl)
3 Koga (Jpn) e Pont (Fra)
-52 kg F
1 Buchard (Fra)
2 Krasniqi (Kos)
3 Shishime (Jpn) e Kocher (Sui)
-57 kg F
1 Funakubo (Jpn)
2 Tamaoki (Jpn)
3 P.Gneto (Fra) and Cysique (Fra)
-63 kg F
1 Nabekura (Jpn)
2 Doi (Jpn)
3 Vermeer (Ned) e Szymanska (Pol)
-60 kg M
1 Nagayama (Jpn)
2 Jeon (Cor)
3 Mkheidze (Fra) e Papinashvili (Geo)
-66 kg M
1 Yondonperenlei (Mgl)
2 Baul An (Kor)
3 Tanaka (Jpn) e Margvelashvili (Geo)
-73 kg M
1 Shavdatuashvili (Geo)
2 Hashimoto (Jpn)
3 Axus (Fra) e Tsend-Ochir (Mgl)
Photo: IJF
