Stepan Sarkisyan gives Russia the medal victory

The men’s heavyweight final was won by Stepan Sarkisyan of Russia. He was the most convincing today and made immediately clear that he wanted to gold in his final match against Daniel Allerstorfer of Austria. He scored waz-ari and yuko in the first minute and came into oseikomi not long after and took the gold.

The Russian defeated Dimitri Lepp (EST) in his first match and Daniel Natea of Romania. In the semi final he could defeat Pascal Scherrenberg of The Netherlands.

Tall Daniel Natea came back in the repchage and won the bronze for Romania. Within the first minute he defeated Vladimir Gajic of Slovenia.

German Sven Heinle took the lead in the bronze medal match against Dutch Pascal Scherrenberg but finished the match after two minutes when he scored the final ippon. Heinle defeated Scherrenberg before and improved his fifth place of last year in Prague to a shiny bronze medal in Samokov.

The victory of Sarkisyan brought Russia the victory in the medal table. With two gold medals, three silver and five bronze medals Russia was also the nation with most medals. Hungary proved again to be the benchmark when it comes to this age category.

Romania was efficient with its two gold medals at day 1. Italy performed well with five medals but couldn’t take a gold medal.