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Dzmitry Shershan shines for his country in Abu Dhabi

Dzmitry Shershan shines for his country in Abu Dhabi

31 Oct 2014 16:15
by Mark Pickering - IJF
IJF Media Team / International Judo Federation

Dzmitry Shershan is prpfiling him as frontrunner for Belarussian judo. In the final U66kg of the Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi The fighter opposed Tarlan Karimov (AZE). Only 45 seconds were needed for Dzmitry Shershan to secure the victory with an immobilisation for ippon.

In the first bronze medal fight between Sebastian Seidl (GER) and Alim Gadanov RUS), the Russian was rapidly penalized with a first shido after 16 seconds. Seidl scored the first yuko of the bout with a counter-attack. A few penalties later, he was still leading with this yuko, enough to win the bronze medal.

 

The second bronze medal fight opposed Patrick Gagne (CAN) and Adrian Gomboc (SLO). After two minutes, Gagne was penalized with a first shido, which was largely compensated by the superb uchimata for waza-ari scored by the Canadian before the last minute. Even if he was penalized two more times for passivity for false attacks, GAGNE won the bronze.