ULAN BATOR, June 25 (Xinhua) — Japan continued their dominance on the Judo Ulan Bator Grand Slam 2023 as they added 4 extra golds on the second day of the match on Saturday.
Japanese Nami Nabekura defeated Hungarian Szofi Ozbas within the ladies’s 63kg closing, and Andreja Leski from Slovenia and Gili Sharir from Israel shared the bronze.
Shiho Tanaka received the ladies’s 70kg class, whereas Lara Cvjetko from Croatia took the silver and the bronze medals went to Maya Goshen from Israel and Madina Taimazova who participated within the occasion as a impartial athlete beneath the flag of the International Judo Federation.
In the lads’s 73kg class, Ken Oyoshi claimed the gold, whereas Danil Lavrentev, one other impartial athlete, took the silver. Bronze medals had been shared by host Mongolian Batzaya Erdenebayar and impartial athlete Ayub Khazhaliev.
In the lads’s 81kg class, Kenya Kohara beat South Korean Lee Joonhwan to take the gold, and Abylaikhan Zhubanazar from Kazakhstan and impartial athlete Alan Khubetsov acquired the bronze ones.
Along with two golds collected on the opening day, Japan now leads the medal tally with six gold medals, whereas Canada sits second with one gold and one silver.
The Ulan Bator Grand Slam 2023, which runs from Friday to Sunday, is a qualifying match for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and has a complete prize of 154,000 euros (about 168,375 U.S. {dollars}).