On the second day of the 2023 Portugal Grand Prix, Portugal’s Barbara Timo strikes gold; Uzbekistan’s Obidkhon Nomonov takes his first Grand Prix gold medal; and Australia’s Maeve Coughlan takes her first gold – only the second ever for her country.
South Korea have established a lead in the overall medals table with
two golds, one silver and one bronze medal at the International Judo
Federation Grand Prix in Almada, Portugal.
Japan have climbed into second in the medals table at the
International Judo Federation Tel Aviv Grand Slam after triumphs in
the women's categories for Megumi Horikawa and Shiho Tanaka.
Friday, 9 April 2021
South Korea claimed the final gold medal of the Asia-Oceania Judo Championships in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan with victory in the mixed team event.
Meeting them in the gold-medal match were Kazakhstan.
In the opening bout Kim Ji-su gave South Korea the lead with an ippon win over Sevara Nishanbayeva in the women s under-57-kilogram category, before Zhansay Smagulov levelled the score with an ippon victory of his own against Kim Lim-hwan in the men s under-73kg.
Zere Bektaskyzy then gave Kazakhstan the lead, emerging victorious after a four-minute stalemate and three-and-a-half minutes of golden score against Kim Seong-yeon in the women s under-70kg.
Proud Armenian Ferdinand Karapetian in the race for Tokyo
9 Mar 2021 17:35
By Lusine Shahbazyan and JudoInside
JudoInside.com / judo news, results and photos
Ferdinand Karapetian of Armenia won the European senior title in 2018 in Tel Aviv. This weekend he showed his best judo with beautiful scores at the Grand Slam in Tashkent. Karapetian is maybe a lonely wolf, fighting in different countries as one of the few Armenian fighters. He travel by himself and trains in as many countries as possible if corona allows.
Karapetian (28) also competed for Russia in his early days where he won national medals as senior and U23. Later he took medals at European Cup level (Dubrovnik 2016) and moved up to medals at European Open level (Minsk 2017). Ferdinand took a bronze medal at the Grand Slam in Düsseldorf in 2018 and was in the final of Ekaterinburg in 2018.