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Kayla Harrison celebrates great comeback at Judo Grand Prix Cuba
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8 Jun 2014 19:10
by Mark Pickering - IJF
IJF Media Team / International Judo Federation
Olympic champion Kayla Harrison (USA) returned from a year-long injury lay-off by taking the -78kg gold medal as world number one and European champion Audrey Tcheumeo (FRA) had to settle for silver. Harrison looked like she was never away as she eased into the final where Tcheumeo received two shido penalties for passivity while the American was penalised once for the same offence. Harrison has already laid down a timely marker as she works towards defending her Olympic crown in Rio.
In the first semi-final TCHEUMEO was limited in offense by the stellar work of Pan American Championships silver medallist Catherine ROBERGE (CAN) but the Frenchwoman guaranteed another medal for her country by winning a battle of shido penalties. ROBERGE was penalised on four occasions to receive hansoku-make as she infringed for going out of the area twice and passivity on two occasions. In the second semi-final HARRISON breezed into the gold medal contest by throwing Baku Grand Slam bronze medallist Anastasiya DMITRIEVA (RUS) with a uki-goshi for ippon.
The first bronze medal was won by Beijing Olympic silver medallist Yalennis CASTILLO (CUB) who won her country’s first medal of the day at the expense of beaten semi-finalist DMITRIEVA. The scoreless contest looked set for golden score with both judoka being penalised three times but there was time for the Russian to receive one final penalty for passivity to receive hansoku-make. The second bronze medal contest was won by Samsun Grand Prix winner Luise MALZAHN (GER) who defeated world number nine ROBERGE. MALZAHN fell behind to a waza-ari after ROBERGE countered the ouchi-gari attempt from the world number four by turning her over momentarily. MALZAHN replied by scoring ippon with an explosive pick-up.
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