Our world champion Anna-Maria Wagner (KJC Ravensburg, WÜ) had to fight for the best grip against Natascha Ausma from the Netherlands and both received inactivity penalties after almost a minute. There were always opportunities for our athlete on the ground, but she couldn’t score them. After a good two minutes, the second penalty for the Dutchwoman. Shortly thereafter, both athletes were penalized again, so that Anna-Maria Wagner won and is in round three.
Alina Böhm (JT Heubach, WÜ) fought after a bye in the second round against the Cuban Kaliema Antomarchi. First, she received an inactivity penalty after 45 seconds. She kept trying to get ground situations but couldn’t get through. However, after two and a half minutes she managed to do so and won with hold. This puts her in round three.
Daniel Autumn (JC Leipzig, SN) wins against Croatian Kumric after more than five minutes of fighting with ippon and is thus in round two. The fight was an up and down of emotions. After almost two minutes, Daniel Herbst receives an inactivity penalty, but scores with waza-ari after three minutes of fight time. In several ground situations he tries to work out a hold, in which he gives up relatively quickly. The Croatian throws at Waza-ari with six seconds to go and the fight goes into overtime. With two penalties in the background, Daniel had to be careful. He had the Croatian pinned after 20 seconds, but was only able to hold it for four seconds. After just over a minute in the golden score, the decisive rating. Daniel Herbst threw to Ippon and is in round two of the next fight.
He had won the only encounter so far with the 21-year-old Georgian Ilja Sulamanidze in June at the Grand Slam in Tbilisi. The current Junior World Champion and World Championship bronze medalist from the previous year certainly didn’t want to let that sit on him. Our athlete received two penalties within 20 seconds after a minute and after a good one and a half minutes the Georgian scored with waza-ari. Then a minute later Ippon. With that, Daniel Herbst left
