The final day of the ECOLE MONT-OLIVET Grand Slam in LAUSANNE promised yet more top quality judo.<\/p>\n
Inside the Vaudoise Arena, double world champion Joshiro Maruyama joined Petra Ore\u0161kovi\u0107 of Croatia for a fantastic inclusive kata demonstration.<\/p>\n
The adaptive judo then came to a climactic finish!<\/p>\n
The adaptive medalists joined the crowd in showing their appreciation.<\/p>\n
A strong Swiss crowd was present to witness the last of the action from this year’s inaugural event.<\/p>\n
International Judo Federation President, Mr Marius Vizer and IOC Sports Director, Mr Pierre DUCREY watched on as\u2026.<\/p>\n
The -90kg final was an uzbek showdown between Umar BOZOROV and Nurbek MURTOZOEV.<\/p>\n
After a tight contest, a huge pick up technique saw BOZOROV come out on top, claiming a second grand slam title. Great respect was shown between the two.<\/p>\n
President of the Uzbekistan Judo Federation, Mr Azizjon KAMILOV was on hand to award the finalists their medals.<\/p>\n
In the -78 kg final, Anna Monta OLEK took on Yelyzaveta LYTVYNENKO. A strong counter from Olek scored waza-ari and she controlled the rest of the contest to take her fifth grand slam gold. Pure joy for the German.<\/p>\n
I think the atmosphere was very great, it was close to germany so a lot of people could come, so im very very happy to take grand slam gold in the olympic qualification<\/p>\n
Anna Monta Olek<\/p>\n
International Judo Federation guest Mr Timur KEMELL, awarded the gold.<\/p>\n
It was Ilia SULAMANIDZE who took the spoils at -100kg.<\/p>\n
Catching his opponent Simeon CATHARINA with a foot sweep and controlling him right down to the mat for a yuko score.<\/p>\n
The end of a terrific day.<\/p>\n
I am so happy again, Lausanne is very great city, switzerland is such a great country, i like it so much<\/p>\n
Ilia Sulamanidze<\/p>\n
He was awarded his gold medal by Harvest Group CEO, Mr Almaz ALSENOV.<\/p>\n
The final of the +78kg category was an all French affair. With Lea FONTAINE up against Romane DICKO.<\/p>\n
Fontaine managed to control her opponent onto her back and secure a pin and the ippon. The medals were awarded by President of France Judo, Mr Stephane NOMIS.<\/p>\n
At +100 kg World champion, Inal TASOEV proved his dominance in the category, Hooking the leg of a resurgent Martti PUUMALAINEN and driving him into the mat, once again taking grand slam gold.<\/p>\n
The final gold medal was awarded by IOC Sports Director, Mr Pierre DUCREY<\/p>\n
Thank you Switzerland. See you soon on the world tour, next time in Budapest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final day of the ECOLE MONT-OLIVET Grand Slam in LAUSANNE promised yet more top quality judo. Inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[60929,60923,60928,60921,60922,94,60925,60927,34814,60924,60926],"class_list":["post-124669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-anna-monta","tag-anna-monta-olek","tag-ilia-sulamanidze","tag-ioc-sports","tag-joshiro-maruyama","tag-lausanne","tag-olek","tag-petra-oreskovic","tag-pierre","tag-pierre-ducrey","tag-the-final-day"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117203632286527449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124669","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=124669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}