Takeshi Sasaki, Saki Niizoe and Kenta Nagasawa gained gold on the Worldwide Judo Federation’s Paris Grand Slam on Sunday, as Japan completed the event on high of the medal desk.
Sasaki captured the boys’s 81-kilogram title with 5 straight ippon victories, culminating with a win over Georgian world No. 1 Tato Grigalashvili within the closing at AccorHotels Area.
Niizoe additionally bested a world No. 1 on her approach to the ladies’s 70-kg crown, pinning Croatia’s Barbara Matic within the title bout.
Nagasawa outpointed Russian Khusen Khalmurzaev within the males’s 90-kg closing, executing the decisive waza-ari within the dying seconds of regulation.
Rika Takayama acquired silver after shedding the ladies’s 78-kg closing to Russian Aleksandra Babintseva, whereas Sotaro Fujiwara and Yoko Ono took males’s 81-kg and girls’s 70-kg bronze, respectively.
The Japanese crew, which didn’t embrace any contributors from this summer time’s Tokyo Olympics, completed the fiftieth version of the IJF occasion with seven gold, two silver and two bronze.
The Grand Slam marked a profitable debut competitors for brand new males’s head coach Keiji Suzuki. The previous Olympic and double world champion changed Kosei Inoue, who retired after 9 years within the function, earlier this month.
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