Krisztian Toth claims his first Grand Slam title in Abu Dhabi

Demonstrating one more time his extraordinary condition, World Junior Champion Toth Krisztian (HUN), met with Noel van 't End in the final of the Grand Slam in 2014. After his silver medal at the World's in Chelyabinsk last summer, the joy of Toth has no limits.

After less than 30 seconds, Toth launched a first drop-seoi-nage counter-attacked by Van 't End, but for no score. Then the Dutch athlete was penalized with a shido, followed by a second one a few seconds later. Very precise on his hands, systematically catching the end of Van 't End' s sleeves, Toth was permanently attacking, giving no chance to the Dutch to really install his attacks. Even if nothing was scored at the end of the time, Toth won the gold by penalty after a very interesting fight.

The first bronze medal fight saw the Zagreb bronze medallist, Karolis Bauza (LTU), opposed to Russian Kirill Voprosov, bronze medallist at the last World Championships in Russia. Using the momentum of his opponent Kirill Voprosov scored ippon with a strong te-waza technique.

In the second bronze medal fight, Mammadali MEHDIYEV (AZE), bronze medallist in Grand Slam Baku, earlier this year, faced Ciril GROSSKLAUS (SUI), who’s best place so far this year was a third place at the Panamerican Open in San Salvador. Both athletes were quickly penalized with shido for blocking the grip. MEHDIYEV was penalized again for passivity giving a small advantage to the Swiss competitor. But not for long, GROSSKLAUS being also penalized for passivity. With a nice drop seoi-nage, GROSSKLAUS definitively secured his bronze medal with a waza-ari.