Dimitri Peters defeats his German rival Karl-Richard Frey in the final

The German team did a perfect job today, placing their two German athletes Dimitri Peters, Olympic bronze medallist, and Karl-Richard Frey,. bronze medallist in Chelyabinsk, in the final. In the end it was the most experienced who took the victory, but Frey is the coming man.

Both athletes know each other very well, so it was very tight, but Peters rapidly produced his deciding effort with a tremendous ippon-o-soto-gari combination, which totally penetrated Frey's defense for a waza-ari followed by a juji-gatame (arm-lock) for ippon.

Frey is now ranked fifth in the World Ranking, Peters seventh.

The first bronze medal fight opposed Lyes Bouyacoub (ALG), 2014 African Champion, and the winner of Grand Slam in Tyumen this year, Elmar Gasimov (AZE). During the four first minutes, only penalties were distributed, two for Gasimov, one to Bouyacoub. The last minute of the bout had exactly the same layout and Bouyacoub won the bronze medal.

The second bronze medal fight opposed the recent finalist of the Tashkent Grand Prix, Toma NIKIFOROV (BEL) and the top seeded athlete of the category and winner of Paris Grand Slam last February, Cyrille MARET (FRA). Totally dominated by the strong gripping of the French, NIKIFOROV was thrown for yuko with a harai-makikomi on the edge of the tatami. The rest of the fight looked a one-way ticket to the podium for MARET, even if he had to be careful until the last second to secure his place on the podium.