The Paris Grand Slam in Judo opens today (Saturday), in the huge 'Berci' hall, where a particularly successful day was recorded for the women's team, when Gili Sharr came up to fight for the gold medal, Inbal Shemesh, Gefen Primo and Tamena Nelson Levy will compete for the bronze.
Sharr, who competes in the weight category up to 63 kg, automatically advanced to the second round, where she defeated the Korean Shaun Shin, in a battle that lasted 7 minutes, and in the round of 16, she beat the local Manon Dekter by one minute to the end of the fight.
In the quarterfinals, waiting for the Israeli, the Canadian Catherine Bishmin, bronze medalist from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and ranked second in the world, and after a scoreboard reset in the first four minutes, Sharr managed to get Vasari in another 48 seconds and advance to the semifinals.
In the last four, Poland's Angelica Szymanska (7th in the world) was waiting for her, on whom she took penalty after penalty to advance to the grand final.
At the same weight, Inbal Shemesh achieved in her first fight, a prestigious victory over the British Lucy Renshall, in the next stage she defeated the Spaniard Laura Vazquez, but lost in the quarterfinals to the Colombian Maylan de Toro, when a victory in the consolation bracket against the Brazilian Katelyn Kudros, led her to the battle for the bronze.
Gefen Primo (up to 52 kg), lost in the quarter-finals with controversial penalties, to the local Olympic runner-up Amandine Bouchard and moved on to compete for the bronze medal, after winning the first fight in the consolation house against a Mongolian rival.
European Tamana champion Nelson Levy, who competes in the weight category up to 57 kg, beat opponents from Ghana and Finland in the opening, but lost on penalties in the quarterfinals to Frenchwoman Priscilla Ganto, moving her to the consolations, where she beat a Mongolian and will compete for a place on the podium.
For the men, things went less well, as Yam Volchek and Matan Kokoliev (up to 60 kg), Flicker and Baruch Shamailov (up to 66 kg), and Ido Levin (up to 73 kg), were already eliminated in the early rounds.
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