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Portuguese train Monteiro doesn't stop

31 Oct 2014 15:55
by Mark Pickering - IJF
IJF Media Team / International Judo Federation

The last final of the Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi saw French Laetitia Blot and Portuguese Telma Monteiro fighting for gold. After only a few seconds, Monteiro launched a brilliant drop seoi-nage, from where BLOT miraculously escaped for no score. Being too passive the French judoka was penalized with a shido.

By putting pressure on Blot, Monteiro scored a superb waza-ari after a combination with an ashi-waza (leg) technique. Nothing seemed to be able to stop Monteiro today and after perfectly controlled ground work, she finally immobilized Blot for ippon.

Telma Monteiro was elected as female player of the Day.

World number five and Grand Slam Baku 2014 winner, Sabrina Filzmoser (AUT), was again present in a medal fight of a major IJF event against RI Hyo Sun (PRK), who was in the position to win a second medal for her delegation on the occasion of this first day of the Grand Slam. More than two minutes were necessary to see the referee giving one penalty to each of the athletes for passivity which was followed by another shido a few seconds later. The Golden Score period was getting closer, when Filzmoser finally found a tiny opportunity to immobilize her opponent for ippon.

 

The second bronze medal fight of the category opposed the bronze medallist of the Junior World Championships, Catherine BEAUCHEMIN-PINARD (CAN) and the London Olympic silver medallist, Corina CAPRIORIU (ROU). The Romanian scored first taking the lead with a yuko from a superb sode-tsuri-komi-goshi, CAPRIORIU finally secured her place on the podium.

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