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Keita Nagashima defeats Olympic silver medallist
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5 Jul 2014 17:25
by Mark Pickering - IJF
IJF Media Team / International Judo Federation
Hosts Mongolia tightened their grip on top spot as they now have 10 medals with three gold, two silver and four bronze in their impressive haul which sees them lead the way ahead of Japan and China who both have two gold medals to their name. The Japanese men had never won gold in Mongolia. Today that curse was broken. World Judo Masters silver medallist Nagashima Keita (JPN) won -81kg gold on Saturday at the Grand Prix Ulaanbaatar as he denied Beijing Olympic silver medallist WANG Ki-Chun (KOR) on the Korean’s return to the IJF World Judo Tour.
Nagashima, who finished seventh at the Tokyo Grand Slam and this year’s season-launching Paris Grand Slam, fell behind to former double world champion WANG, 25, who was last seen winning gold at the FISU Universiade in 2013. WANG, who has moved up from -73kg to -81kg, took the initiative with a waza-ari from a thunderbolt of a tai-otoshi but the Korean’s fitness looked to be in doubt as he gave away shidos and looked set to receive a fourth shido after being reprimanded for passivity, negative gripping and going out of the area. Nagashima producing a thrilling conclusion as he launched his opponent with uchi-mata for a waza-ari with one second left to steal the title from the clutches of WANG who rued his indiscretions.
In the first semi-final WANG defeated world number 84 Lukasz BLACH (POL) as he was outworked and outthought by the South Korean who ensured the inferior work rate of his opponent would be penalised with hansoku-make for four shido penalties from passivity. In the second semi-final NAGASHIMA Keita (JPN) resisted Samsun Grand Prix runner-up Alexander WIECZERZAK (GER) as he won by way of shido penalties. Both judoka were brought to justice for passivity before a second and decisive shido for the German separated the rivals after five minutes after a second case of passivity.
The first bronze medal was won by Tashkent Grand Prix silver medallist Amir GHASEMI NEJAD (IRI) who won his country’s first medal in Mongolia at the expense of WIECZERZAK. The German lost out on shido penalties as he picked up two for passivity while world number 21 GHASEMI NEJAD was only penalised once for the same indiscretion. The second bronze medal was captured by BLACH who beat Olympic bronze medallist Antoine VALOIS-FORTIER (CAN) to earn the first IJF medal of his career. BLACH was penalised for going out of the area but that was insignificant when the Polish fighter submitted VALOIS-FORTIER with a juji-gatame after the Canadian left his arm on offer as he tried to lure his standing opponent into ne-waza.
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