With the third and final day of competition the Grand Slam of Antalya (Turkey) goes to file, fourth seasonal appointment of World Tour of judo. After the splendid podiums won yesterday by Odette Giuffrida (-52 kg) and Manuel Lombardo (-73 kg) Italy does not collect noteworthy satisfactions: all representatives were eliminated early in their respective tournaments.
In the -78 kg category Alice Bellandi starts well getting rid of the Kazakh Assel Bissembay with a quick ippon, then nothing can against the strong transalpine Madeleine Malonga: Olympic silver becomes the protagonist of an ippon against the twenty-three-year-old from Brescia in less than 2’30 ”.
In the -90 kg Nicholas Mungai pays for the efforts of the victory at the Golden Score on German Alexander Wieczerzak coming defeated after 43 “by Cuban Ivan Felipe Silva Morales, on the top step of the podium at the end of the show. Same epilogue for Christian Parlati, good at inflicting an ippon on both French Alexis Mathieu and Dominican Robert Florentino but powerless against the Dutch Jesper Smink (ippon after 2’40 “).
Judo, Odette Giuffrida: “I look straight to the European Championships, satisfied with the result”
The -100 kg category does not smile to Enrico Bergamelli, only blue representative on the mat. The 21-year-old outdoes with a waza-ari in regular time the Croatian Zlatko Kumric before cashing in an ippon in the cesarini area from the Hungarian Zsombor Veg.
Even in the +100 kg the only exponent of the Bel Paese Lorenzo Agro Sylvain must raise the white flag rather quickly. The ippon centered on the Golden Score against the Romanian Mircea Croitoru fades into the background later the ippon immediately 54 ”from the start of the match at the hands of the Azerbaijani Ushangi Kokauri.
PODIUMS OF THE DAY GRAND SLAM ANTALYA 2022
-78 kg female
1 Anna-Maria Wagner (Germany)
2 Guusje Steenhuis (Paesi Bassi)
3 Audrey Tcheumeo (France)
3 Natascha Ausma (Netherlands)
+78 kg female
1 Lea Fontaine (France)
2 Raz Hershko (Israel)
3 Marit Kamps (Netherlands)
3 Julia Tolofua (France)
-90 kg male
1 Ivan Felipe Silva Morales (Cuba)
2 Luka Maisuradze (Georgia)
3 Krisztian Toth (Hungary)
3 Rafael Machedo (Brazil)
-100 kg male
1 Jorge Fonseca (Portugal)
2 Nikoloz Sherazadishvili (Georgia)
3 Elmar Gasimov (Azerbaigian)
3 Aleksandar Kukolj (Serbia)
+100 kg male
1 Guram Tushishvili (Georgia)
2 Alisher Yusupov (Uzbekistan)
3 Andy Granda (Cuba)
3 Temur Rakhimov (Tajikistan)
Photo: LaPresse
