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Japan unleash Nagayama who is now set for impactful Worlds debut
20 May 2017 16:55
by Mark Pickering - IJF
IJF Media Team / International Judo Federation
Tokyo Grand Slam winner Nagayama Ryuju if Japan outshone former European Championships winner Amiran Papinashvili of Georgia by registering three scores without reply. The 21-year-old unleashed a torrent of attacks as he opened with a waza-ari from an uchi-mata after 40 seconds before adding a waza-ari from a modified ura-nage.
Nagayama, who will join Olympic bronze medallist Takato Naohisa as his country’s U60kg judoka in Budapest, added a third waza-ari with ashi-waza and comfortably saw out the clock to earn his finest international triumph of his young career.
In the first semi-final Papinashvili beat former Junior World Championships winner Francisco Garrigos of Spain by ippon after only 26 seconds. In the second semi-final Nagayama registered three waza-ari without reply against Savva Karakizidi (RUS) before putting the Russian judoka out of his misery by ippon.
The first bronze medal contest was won by Abu Dhabi Grand Slam bronze medallist Cedric Revol (FRA) who defeated Karakizidi by a waza-ari from a drop seoi-nage after four minutes of action. In the second bronze medal contest Garrigos suffered his second defeat in a row as Abu Dhabi Grand Slam bronze medallist Albert Oguzov (RUS) was designated as the winner by ippon after 14 seconds.
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