| Rafaela Silva versus Verõnica Toniolo (Photo: Disclosure/IJF) |
O Brazil it was this Friday (24) for two bronze fights in the women’s -57 kg category on the first day of the Grand Slam in Tbilisi, Georgia and ended up losing both. The judokas who reached the medal dispute were Rafaela Silva It is Jessica Limawho respectively faced Jessica Klimait (CAN) and Verônica Toniolo (ITA).
Jessica took a lot of action in the fight, but she couldn’t land a punch in normal times and the fight went to the gold score. With four minutes of extra time, the Italian managed to hit an ippon and get the medal.
Rafaela had already taken a shido, when two minutes after the start of the fight, the Canadian managed to knock her down and I started to immobilize her, the Brazilian reacted, but the referee reopened the count and this time the world champion punched her opponent in the arm and the Ippon was awarded to an athlete from North America.
Jessica started by beating Australia’s Charisma Taylor, then knocked out Italy’s Thauany Capanni Dias and lost in the quarter-finals to Klimait. To enter the medal contest, she beat Germany’s Pauline Starke with two waza-ari.
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Jéssica Lima 57kg beat Pauline Starke 🇩🇪 with 2 waza-ari and will fight for the 🥉 at the Grand Slam of #judotbilisi 🇫🇪
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Rafaela, on the other hand, knocked out Georgian Gvantsa Mtchedlishvili, then overtook Poland’s Julia Kowalczyk and found herself beaten by Toniolo in the quarter-finals. In the repechage, she applied an Ippon on the Briton Nekoda Smithe-Davis.
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Rafa defeats Nekoda Smithe-Davis 🇬🇧 by ippon in the repechage and will fight for the BRONZE of the Grand Slam of #judotbilisi 🇫🇪
IT’S TODAY!
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⏰ 10am 🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/dHJHlBiUpa— CBJ (@JudoCBJ) March 24, 2023
In the -48kg category, Amanda Lima and Natasha Ferreira ended up eliminated in the first fight, as well as Yasmine Lima at -52kg.
In the male, Matthew Takkaki lost in the second fight and Diego Ishmael was eliminated in the first phase, by the -60kg category. Who went the furthest? William Limawho lost in the round of 16 in the -66kg category, to Aibek Uulu of Kyrgyzstan.
The competition continues this Saturday with the finals starting at 10 a.m., broadcast by Canal Olímpico do Brasil and Sportv 2.
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