Welcome back to the IJF World Tour, and for the first time to Lausanne, Switzerland!<\/p>\n
Before the tournament, at the IOC building, Olympic judo legends took a chance to sign the commemorative wall. And International Judo Federation President Mr Marius Vizer took time to greet some potential future Olympians at a local masterclass.<\/p>\n
Inside the Vaudoise Arena, a special tournament began, adaptive judo athletes competed side by side on the same mats as the world’s best judoka for the very first time.<\/p>\n
And having had their moment in the spotlight. The attention turned to\u2026<\/p>\n
Marina VOROBEVA who came out on top at -48kg, arm locking her opponent in the final.<\/p>\n
Mr Sergey SOLOVEYCHIK, President of the Russian Judo Federation, was on hand to award the medals.<\/p>\n
FUKUDA Yamato of Japan, watched on by President Vizer, and IOC Honorary President Thomas Bach, used a huge Ura-nage counter, to seal his first-ever Grand Slam gold medal.<\/p>\n
Its a really big arena, and I was able to hear the cheering from the voices of many of the children in the stands and I was really happy about that!<\/p>\n
Fukuda Yamato<\/p>\n
He was awarded his medal by IOC Member Mrs A\u00efcha GARAD ALI.<\/p>\n
In a close -52kg encounter It was Gefen PRIMO who was judged to be the more active player. Earning her 4th grand slam gold.<\/p>\n
She was awarded her medal by IOC Honorary President, Mr Thomas BACH.<\/p>\n
There was an all-Japan final at -66 kg with Kairi KENTOKU up against Shinsei HATTORI. A breathtaking Uchi-mata from KENTOKU saw him claim his first-ever grand slam gold.<\/p>\n
The medals were awarded by IOC Member Mrs Petra S\u00d6RLING.<\/p>\n
In the -57kg final, current world champion Eteri LIPARTELIANI of Georgia was up against Sarah Leonie CYSIQUE of France. A signature hip throw from LIPARTELIANI saw her back on top of the podium.<\/p>\n
I am very happy because I was able to win this gold medal in the olympic capital Lausanne. This victory gave me a big motivation, because Sarah Leonie Cysique is a very difficult opponent for me<\/p>\n
Eteri Liparteliani<\/p>\n
She was awarded the gold by Multiple Judo Olympic Medallist, Mr Klaus GLAHN.<\/p>\n
Join us tomorrow for the middle-weights and more big judo stars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to the IJF World Tour, and for the first time to Lausanne, Switzerland! Before the tournament,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[59606,2713,253,59608,94,59604,59605,59607,59609,59610,2718,59603,17,10823,59602],"class_list":["post-122267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-eteri-liparteliani","tag-international-judo-federation","tag-ioc","tag-kentoku","tag-lausanne","tag-liparteliani","tag-marius-vizer","tag-mrs-aicha-garad-ali","tag-mrs-petra","tag-olympians","tag-olympic","tag-sarah-leonie-cysique","tag-switzerland","tag-thomas-bach","tag-vizer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117177644891215034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}