Manuel Lombardo’s Superlative Performance at European Championships Open 2023

A Manuel Lombardo superlative went to Pristina and took a bag worth 35 thousand euros from him European Championships Open 2023a special open tournament with only two categories, one for men up to 73 kg and one for women up to 57 kg.

Kosovo obviously took the lion’s share and everything possible was done to ensure that it went that way. The final for gold with Kosovar Akil Gjakova failed following an attack by Manuel which gave Gjakova the opportunity to respond with sumi gaeshi.

The match was at golden score and the assigned wazari concluded the match. Manuel Lombardo’s race was excellent. Victory by ippon over the Turkish Ejder Toktay, struck by the first special guruma kata delivered after 35 seconds by Manuel Lombardo. The referee awards wazari, but the supervisors detect the landing on the deck and raise the rating. Second match and second victory for ippon with another special-kata guruma that defeats the Kosovar Dardan Cena, twenty years old who, galvanized by a cheer on the Paris stands, knocked out both Wandtke (Ger) and Hristov (Bul), going then also taking the bronze medal with an ippon di o uchi gari on the Moldovan Petru Pelivan. Manuel Lombardo’s third victory was obtained “only” for wazari, but overcoming the extraordinary champion who is the Georgian Lasha Shavdatuashvili. A special kata guruma also arrived for him shortly after the two-minute fight, but all attempts to recover the situation were controlled perfectly.

Akil Gjakova, for her part, earned the final by overcoming (three sanctions in the golden score) Robert Klacar (Slo), then very laboriously, to put it mildly, the Austrian Lukas Reiter, who was awarded the third sanction in the golden score. Tough victory in the quarterfinals over Hidayat Heydarov, even if obtained on the wire with a gaeshi wazari 9 seconds from the end and clear victory in the semifinals over Petru Pelivan (Mda) with ippon counterattacking the Moldovan’s o uchi gari at the time.

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2023-12-16 17:31:07
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