2023-08-04 17:47:00
The masters tournament (almost) smiled on the Blues this Friday. Imperial this Friday, Amandine Buchard won one of the greatest successes of her career by winning the Judo Masters, which brought together the best judokas and judokas of the current season, for the second time after 2021.
The triple bronze medalist at the World Championships signed the perfect day to win gold in the -52 kg by dominating the Olympic champion… of the -48 kg Kosovar Distria Krasniqi in the final. Also author of a big day, Sarah-Leonie Cysique was unfortunately dominated by Jessica Klimkait in the -57 kg final.
A perfect day for Buchard
Rarely worried during the day, applied to setting up her ever more elaborate palette, “Bubuche” notably released the Briton Chelsie Giles in the semi-final on ippon. Before delivering an almost perfect copy in the final against the world number one.
In a strong fight from start to finish, the Frenchwoman managed to impose her seizures and especially her very many changes of pace. Before making the difference after seven seconds of golden score. As often, it was on a kata-guruma, her favorite grip, that the Habs finished the job to offer themselves a prestigious and very encouraging success one year from Paris 2024. The native of Noisy-le-Sec made a huge leap forward in the rankings, so precious in the race for the Parisian Olympiad.
Cysique leaves with the money
Very strong throughout the day with authoritarian successes against Mariah Holguin, Salih Yildiz, the double world champion Darya Bilodid or even Haruka Funakubo, Sarah-Léonie Cysique confirmed her return to her best level. The AC Boulogne-Billancourt licensee dominated all of her opponents in less than four minutes and impressed with her serenity and judo palette.
But the Tokyo Olympic vice-champion had to give in to Jessica Klimkait in the final. For their ninth match, the Canadian assumed her status and confirmed that she was one of the French’s pet peeves, despite being incisive throughout the game. At the end of a very rhythmic fight where the break was close on both sides, the native of Ontario finally found the fault in the golden score to offer herself a first success at the Masters.
Surprise at the golden score, Cysique is still content with money at the Masters
Gneto without medal
In the fight for bronze, still at -57 kg, Priscilla Gneto was trapped by Haruka Funakubo and leaves the Hungarian capital fanny. Offensive and in good shape, the London 2012 bronze medalist put up a solid fight and stood up to the world number 3 for a long time. But the Japanese took advantage of the wear of the French to punish her on ko-uchi-gari in the golden score.
Gneto misses bronze at Budapest Masters
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