Baruch Shmailov won gold at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam, bronze to Timna Nelson Levy

The judoka won in the final up to 66 kg: "I returned the love." Nelson Levy with a third medal in Tel Aviv, Rishoni and Primo lost the battle for the bronze

Yaniv Tuchman

17/02/2022

Thursday, February 17, 2022, 6:37 p.m.

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The Tel Aviv Grand Slam, the fun judo event held at the Drive-In Hall, kicked off today (Thursday) with the first Israeli gold medal, belonging to Baruch Shmailov, and then Timna Nelson Levy won the bronze.

Before that, the many spectators in the stands got to know the sisters Astrid and Priscilla Nieto, who defeated four Israeli contestants one after the other.

The competition will last until Saturday and Israel has sent no less than 44 athletes.

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Beauty of competition.

Baruch Shmailov (Photo: Israel Olympic Committee, Amit Shissel)

Up to 66 kg, men

starred on the first day and celebrated the first gold medal in his senior career. The Israeli judoka achieved five bronze medals in the Grand Slam round and here in Tel Aviv, he celebrated his best personal achievement (the medal). The Israeli Olympics were a team.) The Israeli judoka passed a Mongolian opponent and then defeated Tal Flicker in a derby in the quarterfinals. The Azeri who bounced all the crowd in the

hall.Smaylov excitedly thanked the fans for the support: "We have a crowd that loves and knows what judo is.

I returned their love with the gold medal.

We are half a year after the Olympics, we started with intensive preparation.

We were not one hundred percent ready, but we got here in the best way we could.

There were a few more girls vying for the medal, the guys

Flickr, who defeated rivals from Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, rolled into the House of Consolation after the loss to Shmailov, where he surrendered to Daiki Buba from France.

defeated American Adonis Diaz in the first round, but surrendered to an Azeri opponent in the second round and was eliminated.

lost in the first round.

Up to 48 kg, women

Rishoni lost in the battle for the bronze medal to Spain's Julia Figueroa, after a stubborn fight that lasted almost eight minutes. Before that, rivals from Austria and Mongolia, and in the semifinals, sheer France, Sheerin

, the European champion, the champion from Tel Aviv last year and the favorite to win this time, the Israeli fought, but lost to the strong opponent and ended up without a medal.

From Italy and was eliminated in the second round.

Geffen Primo and Streid Nieto (Photo: GettyImages, David Finch)

Up to 52 kg, women

like Rishoni,

also lost in the semi-finals and then in the battle for bronze. Ranked 6th in the world in its weight, started the day with a light victory over Fabiola. In the semi-finals it was already another opera, with a battle against French Astrid Nieto After about seven minutes without a decision, Primo suffered a third penalty and lost

They automatically advanced to the second round, but lost in it and were

eliminated

Who really loves the competitions in Tel Aviv (wins in 2019 and 2021) did not manage to stand at the top of the podium again, but kept the medal tradition in front of the home crowd thanks to a victory in the battle for the bronze against the Polish Arlette Podolak who won three quick penalties.

After a relatively easy victory over a Kazakh opponent, Nelson Levy met for a long battle the Brazilian Rafaela Silva - the gold medalist from the Rio 2016 Olympics. The two fought a close battle and in the end the Israeli managed to get a gold score and win, Nieto, Priscilla.

Unlike Primo, she knew how to recover and achieved the bronze medal.

lost in the first round,

automatically qualified for the second round and lost to ... Priscilla Nieto.

Preserved the tradition in Tel Aviv.

Timna Nelson Levy (Photo: Official Website, Judo Association, Oded Karni)

Up to 60 kg, men

was the only Israeli out of four to make it to the first round, but he surrendered in the second round to an opponent from Azerbaijan and finished his way.

lost in the first round.

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