Kenta Nishigata wins second Grand Prix this year
Ulaanbaatar Grand Prix winner Nishigata Kenta (JPN) won his second Grand Prix title by overcoming the defending Tashkent Grand Prix winner Battulga Temuulen (MGL). The last fight of the year’s Tashkent Grand Prix was settled on shido penalties as the Mongolian was penalised three times while the Japanese fighter from Kokushikan was penalised once.
In the first semi-final 2013 Tashkent Grand Prix winner Andre Breitbarth (GER) was defeated by Nishigata by a waza-ari as the latter countered a wea harai-goshi attempt. In the second semi-final Battulga bested Austrian Allerstorfer by holding him down with a kami-shiho-gatame for 20 seconds.
The first bronze medal went to Allerstorfer who defeated 22-year-old Elyor Masharipov (UZB) who could not repeat his bronze medal from last year’s event. The second bronze medal went to Breitbarth who scored a waza-ari in the closing seconds against Asian Championships silver medallist Iurii Krakovetskii (KGZ) for the final spot on the heavyweight podium.
Result | City | Date |
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2 | Paris | 30 Jul |
1 | Abu Dhabi | 21 May |
1 | Zagreb | 26 Apr |
3 | Belgrade | 2023 |
2 | Montpellier | 2023 |