At the World Judo Championships held in Qatar on the tenth, Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Takanori Nagase gained the bronze medal within the males’s 81-kilogram class.
At the World Judo Championships in Qatar on the tenth, the 81kg males’s and 63kg ladies’s matches have been held.
Of these, Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Nagase participated within the males’s 81 kg class, shedding to a Korean participant within the quarterfinals and advancing to the third-place play-off after the comfort match.
The deciding match in opposition to the Israeli athletes went into extra time, however Nagase, who maintained his stance of attacking whereas blocking the opponent’s methods, gained by ippon in the long run, profitable the bronze medal for the second consecutive yr. .
Nagase appeared ahead, saying, “It’s frustrating for the lack of progress. I can’t say what I have to do, but I want to make the most of the games I lost last year and prepare for the Paris Olympics.”
The gold medal went to Georgia’s Tato Grigalashvili.
On the opposite hand, within the ladies’s 63-kilogram class, Megumi Horikawa, who gained the event final yr, and Mirai Takaichi, the consultant of the Tokyo Olympics, each misplaced within the third spherical and didn’t win a medal.
The gold medal went to Clarisse Agbeneux of France.