ULAN BATOR, June 23 (Xinhua) — Japan bagged two gold medals on the primary day of the Ulan Bator Grand Slam 2023 in judo which began right here on Friday, main the medal desk.
The first day featured matches of the ladies’s 48kg, 52kg and 57kg, in addition to males’s 60kg and 66kg classes.
Japan’s Ryuju Nagayama gained the lads’s 60kg class, whereas Romain Valadier Picard from France took the silver, and the bronze medals went to Lee Ha-rim of South Korea and Romazan Abdulaev who participated within the event as a impartial athlete below the flag of the International Judo Federation.
In the ladies’s 48kg class, Hikari Yoshioka from Japan claimed the gold, whereas Sabina Giliazova, one other impartial athlete, took the silver. Bronze medals had been shared by Catarina Costa from Portugal and Tamar Malca from Israel.
In the ladies’s 57kg class, Canadian Christa Deguchi beat her compatriot Jessica Klimkait to take the gold. Bronze medals went to South Korean Huh Mimi and impartial athlete Kseniia Galitskaia.
Yondonperenlei Baskhuu of hosts Mongolia defeated Obid Dzhebov of Tajikistan within the males’s 66kg closing, and Yashar Najafov from Azerbaijan and Mongolian Battogtokh Erkhembayar shared the bronze.
In the ladies’s 52kg class, Israeli Gefen Primo gained the gold, French Amandine Buchard took the silver, and Reka Pupp from Hungary and Diyora Keldiyorova from Uzbekistan settled for the bronze medals.
The Ulan Bator Grand Slam 2023, which is scheduled to run by means of to Sunday, is a qualifying event for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and has a complete prize of 154,000 euros.