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Not enough opposition for Miku Tashiro in Tashkent

Not enough opposition for Miku Tashiro in Tashkent

6 Mar 2021 17:25
IJF Medi Department
IJF Gabriela Sabau / International Judo Federation

The hierarchy of the category U63kg in Tashkent was perfectly respected with the two top seed athletes, Miku Tashiro from Japan, already the winner of three World Judo Masters and Andreja Leski of Slovenia, finalist of the last Grand Slam in Tel Aviv, found themselves in the final after a series of serious and flawless victories during the preliminary rounds.

In less than one minute, Tashiro Miku found the solution to throw Andreja Leski for ippon with a ko-soto-gari, putting an end to a very, very fast and spectacular final block appearance.

In the first match for the bronze medal we found Daria Davydova (RUS), third in the Hungarian Grand Slam last October and Anriquelis Barrios (VEN), who had failed at the foot of the podium in Doha in January, but this time the Venezuelan didn't miss the opportunity to step on the podium with a winning sumi-gaeshi.

After more than a year without results, Amy Livesey (GBR) faced Bold Gankhaich (MGL), third in Düsseldorf last year, for the second bronze medal match. 16 seconds were enough for Livesey to score an ippon with a perfect uchi-mata.

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