2023-08-06 13:37:43
Published on August 6, 2023 at 3:37 p.m. – updated on August 6, 2023 at 3:48 p.m. Aurélien Canot
The French team is already certain to climb again on the top step of the podium, this Sunday during the Masters in Budapest. In the +78 kg, Romane Dicko, who has already won the meeting twice, and Julia Tolofua will face each other in the final. Madelaine Malonga is only one success away from the gold medal as well, in the -78 kg category.
A Frenchwoman is already guaranteed to join Amandine Buchard, gold medalist on Friday during this Masters which had started with fanfare for the Bleues and the Francilienne. The French team can even win two titles this Sunday on the last day of this Masters Tournament. In very particular conditions (a power cut put the tournament on hold for thirty minutes and once the electricity returned, the fights ended in darkness), the Blues have indeed managed a small festival from the start of the day. In particular at +78 kg, where the two huge favorites of the category in this Masters were named Romane Dicko and Julia Tolofua. The two Tricolores did not miss the call and they will face each other at 5:00 p.m. in the final, gold medal at the end of the revenge of the Worlds of 2022. Dicko, crowned world champion this year- there, has particularly made a strong impression on his career. Twenty-three seconds only were enough for him to get rid of the Noé-Zealander Andrews, when the Chinese Xu, she held 50 seconds.
Malonga in the final too
In the meantime, Dicko had dismissed Léa Fontaine, another Tricolore in the running, from his route. In the final, against the vice-world champion of the last Worlds, the native of Clamart will start as the favorite, especially since she leads 2-0 against the one who is also her friend in life and has never known the defeat at the Masters (she won the event in 2021 and 2022). The French team is therefore certain to have another winner in this Masters after this Franco-French final. Madeleine Malonga will perhaps be grafted onto Dicko or Tolofua and Buchard. The 2019 world champion in Tokyo and silver medalist two years later still in Tokyo during the Olympic Games also made it to the final, beating another of our representatives Fanny-Estelle Posvite in the semi-finals. . Victorious on penalties, Malonga will be opposed for the title to the formidable Israeli Inbar Lanir, who is none other than the reigning world champion.
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