adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Slovenia has an amazing Championships. Also in the heavyweight category they took the gold medal. Lucija Polavder regained the European title that she won also in 2010. Last year she lost the final against Ivaschenko, this year Emilie Andeol was her opponent. The French was the highest seeded judoka. Polavder…
27 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Lukas Krpalek has won the first ever gold medal for his country Czech Republic. It was the dream final with the two highest seeded fighters and the top in Europe: Lukas Krpalek had to face Henk Grol. The Dutchman is the nemesis of the strong Czech who is the current…
27 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Lucie Louette crowned her beautiful year with the European title. In the final she was able to defeat Ana Velensek of Slovenia who claimed the third medal for Slovenia at the adidas European Championships. Both fighters knew eachother well and both had won and lost before in head-2-heads. In this…
27 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Kirill Denisov has won the first European title in his career. The Russian would almost get used to a second place after being ranked second at the Europeans in 2011 and becoming vice world champion in 2011. But Denisov didn’t let go his ambitions to take the European title for…
27 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
The biggest upset in the morning session at the 2013 adidas European Judo Championships in Budapest on Saturday was undoubtedly Ilias Iliadis’ unexpected loss to Estonian Aleksander Marmeljuk in the round of 16. Other favorites in the weight categories -78kg, +78kg, -90kg, -100kg and +100kg made it to the semifinals.…
27 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
After the finals of the second day of the European Championships the EJU team has spoken to all medallist and asked for their first reactions. women’s U63kg Clarisse AGBEGNENOU (FRA), gold: I only can be pleased after such a day. Last year I was third, this year I wanted the…
26 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Georgia added a third gold medal in the men’s category at this adidas European Championship. The gold medal U81kg was for Avtandil Tchrikishvili. In an exciting final the Georgian defeated Croatian Tomislav Marijanovic. Not that the quality was extremely high in this final but no scores on the board kept…
26 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
The final U70kg was won by the amazing strong Kim Polling of the Netherlands. Polling scored the first yuko of the match after 100 seconds, although Bolder had a good and offensive start. Despite Polling’s form of this year everyone estimates her as undefeatable after her impressive victory at the…
26 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Rok Draksic has got his first European title and most important victory in his career. The Slovenian is the first man for his country to take the European title. Previously only three women won the European title (Sraka, Zolnir, Polavder). In today’s final of the European Championships Draksic defeated Nugzari…
26 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
The first gold medal of the second day of the European Championships is for France. Clarisse Agbegenou needed less than a minute to defeat her Russian opponent Marta Labazina. The 20-year old Agbegnenou was the favourite and highest ranked judoka in this class U63kg. The 26-year old Labazina was more…
26 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
The 2013 adidas European Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary, continued Friday with some surprises in the Preliminary Rounds of the men’s -73kg and -81kg as well as the women’s -63kg and -70kg. In the women’s -63kg, top-seed Clarisse Agbegnenou of France had to overcome a challenge by Sweden’s Anna Bernholm…
26 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
For Georgia it was a great start of the adidas European Championships. Georgia continues the success of last year but now already with two gold medals at the first day. The new president David Kevkishvili was not surprised and already announced two gold medals today for his stars Papinashvili and…
26 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Eva Csernovicki gave the Hungarian team and organisation a great boost with her European title. She defeated Charline van Snick in the final and we spoke to her after her final. Eva Csernoviczki (HUN): “This is my sixth medal and finally it is gold. I felt tired before the semifinal.…
26 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Olympic Champion Lasha Shavdatuashvili claimed the European title this time. Last year he warmed up for the Olympic Games with a bronze medal, not bad for a junior, but this year more was expected. Only the gold counted for the Georgian of 21 years young. “This is my first official…
25 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
The final U52kg was won by Natalia Kuzyutina from Russia. She is still going strong and claimed her third European title. Last year in Chelyabinsk she lost the final against Andreea Chitu but came back strongly in today’s final against the same Chitu. The final was equal halfway the match…
25 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Amiran Papinashvili took the European title in the men’s U60kg. In the final he was able to defeat Ludovic Chammartin, the surprising finalist from Switzerland. Papinashvili was the favourite in advance as highest ranked judoka at the IJF World Ranking, as fourth of the world. Papinashvili defeated Shirinli (AZE) and…
25 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
Finally she made it! Eva Csernoviczki takes the gold medal at the adidas European Championships. After three lost medals and the bronze last year, Csernoviczki confirmed her reputation as Olympic bronze medallist by winning the European title at home in Budapest. In the category U48kg Csernoviczki defeated Belgian enemy and…
25 April 2013adidas European Championships - Budapest, Hungary
The European Judo Championships 2013 kicked off in Budapest on Thursday with an exciting morning of preliminary rounds in five weight categories. In the women’s -48kg three top contenders made it to the semifinals. Charlene van Snick of Belgium will face teammate Amelie Rosseneu in the first semifinal while Hungary’s…
25 April 2013
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