2023-05-08 16:32:56
Frenchwoman Amandine Buchard won the -52 kg bronze medal on Monday at the Doha World Judo Championships while Frenchman Walide Khyar won the first world medal of her career by going for the -66 kg bronze. Amandine Buchard won her fourth world medal, her fourth in bronze, following those of 2014, 2018 and 2022.
Buchard, also Olympic vice-champion in the category in Tokyo, fell in the quarter-finals once morest the Japanese Uta Abe, who had beaten her in the final of the Games, before recovering once morest the South Korean Jang Seyun in repechage. In her fight for bronze, she dominated the Hungarian Reka Pupp, 3rd in the world.
Khyar, 27, defeated South Korean An Baul in the bronze medal match by waza-ari. During the day, the French had climbed to the semi-finals in a convincing manner, before losing once morest the Olympic champion of Tokyo, the formidable Japanese Hifumi Abe.
This is the third medal for France since the start of these Worlds following Shirine Boukli’s gold in the -48 kg category.
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