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Dimitri Peters defeats Martin Pacek in Abu Dhabi

Dimitri Peters defeats Martin Pacek in Abu Dhabi

23 Nov 2013 18:05
by Mark Pickering - IJF
IJF Media Team / International Judo Federation

German’s Olympic bronze medallist Dimitri Peters took the victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. After more than three minutes, the scoreboard was still empty when the Olympic and world bronze medallist, Dimitri Peters (GER), scored the first yuko. After a quiet first part of the final, this seemed to suddenly give a second breath to both finalists.

Swedish Martin Pacek started to attack non-stop with his great tomoe-nage and he was able to score a yuko as well. But the final word was given by Peters who was awarded with waza-ari (ko-uchi-gake).

The first bronze medal went to Karl-Richard Frey (GER) after one of the most intense fights of the competition. Flavio Orlik (SUI) was the first one to score a waza-ari with a counter attack. Then for almost four minutes FREY literally run after the score. The second bronze medal went to Soyib Kurbonov (UZB), who immobilised Sergei Samoilovich (RUS).