Our judokas won one gold, one bronze medal on the third day of World Championship

Azerbaijani judokas won one gold and one bronze medal on the third day of the World Junior Judo Championship held in Lima, the capital of Peru on 30 August.

Among the boys, Jasur Ibadli, competing in the 73kg weight category, defeated all his rivals and reached the final. In the final, Ibadli’s first attack was tsuri-goshi and with this attack he earned a waza-ari point. Ibadli continued his attacks, earned the second point with a great ko-soto-gake technique and eventually won the gold medal.

In the 81kg weight category, Mehdi Abbasov faced Kenzo Cremers  from Belgium for the bronze medal. Abbasov got advantage thanks to his nage-waza skills, defeated Cremers by ippon in the third minute of the match and won the bronze medal.