Attila Ungvari makes family proud with gold

The Ungvari's are trying to qualify for the Olympic Games, likely tough for 2012 Olympic finallist Miklos, but Attila was still in the race. There are days when everything seems to work perfectly. The matches are tough and fierce, but in the end all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. This is what happened for Ungvari Attila today and he seems to qualify for Tokyo with a load of valuable points.

A few weeks ago he finished on the podium in Antalya, but it was for a bronze. We can not say that his day was a walk in the park, but concentrated like never before, precise with the hands and confident in his tachi and ne-waza, the Hungarian found himself in a position to win the gold medal against the Russian Alan Khubetsov (RUS), who also had the perfect competition so far.

He had demonstrated it since the morning, that today was his day and he did not disappoint. Ungvari Attila, during the final seemed at times a little under pressure from his powerful opponent, but at no time did he give up, neither when he was under pressure, nor when he was penalised. Always very precise on the grips, always on the lookout for the slightest fault of his opponent, he waited for golden score, to take out his secret weapon and with a little flick of his foot, threw his opponent for a waza-ari. Bravo Attila, who thus enters the group of athletes who have distinguished themselves in recent months in the U81kg category. With this victory, Ungvari Attila becomes the seventh Hungaria athlete to win a Grand Slam. The list is growing and this only reinforces the interest of the category for the World Championships and the Olympic Games.

Aslan Lappinagov (RUS), third in Tel Aviv in February, was present in the first bronze medal contest against Lee Sungho (KOR), already holder of a silver medal at grand slam level. With a massive, reverse, Korean-style seoi-nage, combined with a ko-soto-gari, Lee scored ippon to win the medal.

For the second bronze medal, Yunus Bekmurzaev (BLR), without any reference on the international circuit, met Murad Fatiyev (AZE), already classified twice on the circuit since the beginning of the year. Once again Fatiyev stepped on to the podium, after Bekmurzaev was penalised a third time.

Sagi Muki (ISR) had come to seek confidence in Kazan. Mission not accomplished, since he bowed out in the first round, despite being seeded number one.

Ungvari Attila (HUN), who took full advantage of Muki's elimination, to free himself and make a superb run through the preliminaries, while the Russian athletes continued to rack up the rounds, without ultra-domination, still leaving room for other nations, although as the host country Russia can enter four athletes per category.