Iliadis and Alvear take triple, Aguiar covers Brazilian poverty with gold

In Chelyabinsk at day five three great champions were crowned and to be honest, they were not the ones with the highest odds. Although their quality is undisputed. One of our heroes Ilias Iliadis can never be whipped out for a medal, but it was Varlam Liparteliani who’s stars were shining more clearly last year. Not Kim Polling but Yuri Alvear can measure with Ilias Iliadis winning the triple.

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The Colombian super star has reached the ultimate hero status of all time in her country among all sport. Who would have thought she could repeat last year’s stunt and capture her third world title, likely Alvear thought about that and she did it. In the final she defeated Japanese Karen Nun-Ira who was also a surprise.

Alvear beat Kim Polling who had the best papers in advance in the semi final. Polling didn’t even take a bronze medal as Polish veteran Katarzyna Klys grabbed her opportunity to take the first medal for Poland since 2001 by Robert Krawczyk, despite the ‘Open’ medal of Eitel in 2008 and the first women’s world medal in this century. Onix Cortes defeated Croatian medal hope Barbara Matic who has a whole future to fight for the medals, not a shame at such magnificent level.

Mayra Aguiar of Brazil was counted among the favourites for the title U78kg but was also not the highest ranked, this category was very open though and anything could happen. Aguiar defeated French Audrey Tcheumeo who wanted to regain her world title of 2011. Both ladies won Olympic bronze in 2012, but Aguiar now went to the big prize. A lot of patience was rewarded for her and the Brazilian team who were unlucky this week who could only help Erika Miranda to bronze so far. Today the hard work was appreciated by Aguiar who was in the World final in 2010 in Tokyo when she was just 19. Four years and three World Championships medals later, she once more confirmed that she is an Olympic gold medal candidate in her own country in 2016.

Kayla Harrison lost the semi final against Aguiar but recovered in her bronze bout against Yahima Ramirez, who’s fifth place was her best ever rank for the 34-year old Portuguese. With this bronze medal Harrison gave something to chew on for the team of the USA after some deceptions this week. Ana Velensek took another bronze medal for Slovenia, the wonder state that keeps on delivering. Velensek’s year with a victory in Paris and warm-up in Celje and Budapest is stable and more successful than ever.

Deceptions though by last year’s World Champion Kyong Sol who finished fifth, but also on the side of Luise Malzahn who lost her first match while ranked 5th, just behind Tcheumeo, Velensek and Aguiar. With injured Verkerk at home Malzahn was expected to shine and take the first medal for the poor German team that has won a medal at ALL World Championships in the German history since 1991.

Georgia was happy today and welcomed World bronze of Liparteliani with a tear in the eye. More was expected but in this field anything could happen. Youngster Krisztian Toth brought Hungary the medal that they missed out in 2013 when Hungary didn’t win any medal after a successful serie since 2003. The gap is closed by Toth who defeated Liparteliani in the quarter final. Russian Kirill Voprosov had to defeat his pall Kirill Denisov to get the bronze, and sixth medal for the men’s team of Vitaly Makarov and his coaches. Makarov is from Chelyabinsk where this week’s party goes on and on. Only the world title lacks for Russia, so expectations are high for Olympic Champion Tagir Khaibulaev who’s put in the pool of death U100kg. Fireworks on Saturday is expected, stay tuned.