Willian Lima takes two world medals in one week

For the last final of the first day of the Junior World Championships in Marrakech, the bronze medallist of the Brasilia Grand Slam, a couple of days ago, William Lima (BRA) was opposed to the 20 year old Japanese Takeoka Takeshi.

In less than thirty seconds, Takeoka already showed the full extent of his young tallent, imbalancing twice his opponent who caught up miraculously. But to everyone's surprise, it was Lima who scored first on a lightning shoulder movement that sent Takeoka to the mat. The Japanese could only put strong pressure during the last seconds, but nothing helped and William Lima won the first gold medal for Brazil.

In the first bronze medal contest, the bronze medallist of the last Junior European Championships, Ibrahim Aliyev (AZE) was opposed to Lucian Bors Dumitrescu of Romania. If the first four minutes were rather to the advantage of Aliyev, more offensive, he failed to score and it was not until the golden score that the winner could finally be awarded. Thus it was after a little more than two minutes of extra time that Aliyev could celebrate while his opponent was penalized a third time after having stepped out of the tatami.

In the second bronze medal contest, Dilahodbek Yuldoshev (UZB) faced Michael Marcelino (BRA). In just over a minute, under the pressure of his opponent, the Uzbek had already been penalized twice. The Brazilian was not long before scoring a first waza-ari on a let-handed uchi-mata, on the edge of the competition area. Then Marcelino had only to control until the final gong to win one more medal for the Brazilian delegation.