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Hiroyuki Akimoto in front of Ono
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6 Dec 2014 14:50
by Mark Pickering - IJF
IJF Media Team / International Judo Federation
In the -73kg, ONO Shohei (JPN) and AKIMOTO Hiroyuki (JPN) proved to be the two best athletes of a very strong weight category. Favorite of this final, ONO, world champion in Rio in 2013, found in front of him a highly-motivated AKIMOTO, who after a long and complicated fight, finally scored a nice yuko with a shoulder movement, from which ONO tried to escape but with no success.
The first bronze medal fight of the men’s -73kg opposed the new Junior World Champion and recent Jeju Grand Prix winner, AN Changrim (KOR) and ORUJOV Rustam (AZE), who finished on the podium in Abu Dhabi on the occasion of the first Grand Slam in the UAE. In a close contest, AN Changrim was able to score a single yuko before controlling the end of the fight in a very tactical way for a so young competitor, and despite the three shidos he was penalized with, AN won the bronze.
The second bronze medal fight did not show more action than the first as both fighters knew each other very well and only penalties were distributed until the last seconds when UNGVARI, Olympic silver medallist in London in 2012, launched an action-reaction technique, for waza-ari, giving him the chance, one more time to step on an international podium.
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