The Cuban judoka Maylín del Toro was at the gates of the throne after losing this Friday to the Canadian Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard in the fight for the title of the 63 kilograms of the Grand Slam in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The woman from Santiago, champion at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, lost by ippon to the Olympic bronze medalist in 2021 and world runner-up in 2022, and saw the dream of winning her first center in these contests vanish, according to a report from the Prensa Latina (PL) agency.
Silver for Maylín del Toro in Grand Slam of #Judo from Tel-Avid
After that result #Cuba he rose to eleventh place in the medal table among 52 nations.https://t.co/OUZohQvAQY pic.twitter.com/6EJe5WlfRz— JIT Cuban Sport (@jit_digital) February 17, 2023
After this subtitle, del Toro files two silver and four bronze medals in nine appearances in Grand Slam tournaments. With this medal he improves the third place reached just a couple of weeks ago in the Judo Grand Slam in Paris.
For Beauchemin-Pinard, this represented his third scepter in those fights after those achieved in Tbilisi 2021 and Tyumen 2014, the source specifies.
The bronze medals in this division corresponded to the British Lucy Renshall and the Kosovar Laura Fazliu.
Cuba had another meritorious performance on the day. Magdiel Estrada (73 kg) anchored in the fifth seat of her division after being on the verge of the podium with his defeat against the Bulgarian Mark Hristov by ippon in the golden rule, stands out the sports portal Hit.
Cuban judokas will travel to Israel for the Tel Aviv Grand Slam
Maikel Mkencie (81 kg) also appeared on the island, who easily lost to the Spanish José María Mendiola in just 1:42 minutes by ippon.
Idelannis Gómez (70 kg) suffered the same fate in his first presentation at the hands of the local Maya Kogan for waza-ari.
On this Saturday, at the closing of the event, the Cuban Olympic and world multi-medalist Idalys Ortiz (+78 kg) and fellow world medalist Iván Silva (90 kg) will climb onto the tatamis, who could contribute new medals.
At the moment France dominates the medal table with three titles. Canada follows with two and then Israel, Georgia, Great Britain and Switzerland with one.
The Grand Slam of the Israeli capital is held in the Drive in Arena multipurpose room with the participation of 398 competitors (224 men and 174 women) from 52 countries.
