He cuban judo said goodbye this Sunday with two bronze medals from the Tbilisi Grand Slam, in Georgia.
The medals were achieved at the end of the event by the stars Iván Felipe Silva (90 kg) and Andy Granda (+100 kg), two of the main figures of this sport on the island.
Silva, the 2018 world subtitle, triumphed in his first bout against American John Jayne, by waza-ari-awasete-ippon, but then lost to Turkey’s Mihael Zgank by waza-ari in the golden rule, review the digital site Hit.
Then, the man from Matanzas had to look for the bronze in the repechage, an instance in which he defeated the Israeli Li Kotchman by ippon, and then beat the Greek Theodoro Tselidis by hansoku-make, in the dispute to access the podium.
For his part, Granda defeated the Cypriot Giannis Antoniou and the Azeri Dzhamal Gamzatkhanov to advance to the semifinals, but there he lost to the local Gela Zaalishvili, ultimately the champion of the fair.
For bronze he got rid of the Korean Seungyeob Lee, with which he equaled his performance in the Grand Slam of Tashkent at the beginning of the month, notes the specialized media.
The Cuban delegation was finally ranked 18th in the Georgia contest, among 61 participating nations. This was achieved despite attending with only five judokas in four divisions, specifies Hit.
By country, Georgia prevailed with a pair of scepters and the same number of subtitles, in addition to a bronze medal. The host country was closely followed by Serbia, with two golds and one silver medal.
Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Germany, Israel, Azerbaijan, Great Britain, Greece, Kyrgyzstan and Austria closed the top ten table, all with a gold medal.
