The first to attack was from Shahin Orujzade with his tomoe-nage, but maybe it was a little too obvious, so Dijol easily read his opponent's move. On his side, the French judoka was trying to find some opportunities with his shoulder movement, but was no more successful than his counterpart. Dijol was then penalised for passivity, before Orujzade earned his shido for the same reason. The athletes offered a pleasant contest though and then offered us some extra-time in golden score. This was the moment Orujzade chose to use his head to apply a technique. He was logically penalised for the head dive, sending a second gold medal to France.
For a place on the podium, Roy Rubinstein (ISR) faced the first Georgian of the category, Daviti Lomitashvili (GEO). It is with one shido apiece that the two judoka entered golden score after a score-free initial 4 minutes. With a superb sumi-gaeshi Lomitashvili dropped under his opponent to score a waza-ari and win the bronze medal.
Anvarjon Ibrohimov (UZB) was opposed by the second Georgian, Saba Sabashvili (GEO). Anvarjon Ibrohimov thought he had scored a beautiful waza-ari with a powerful kata-guruma. The match stopped for a little while to revise the decision, but it did not go in the direction Ibrohimov though it would. He was penalised for leg grabbing his opponent during the execution of his movement. Thus, the waza-ari became a shido; not exactly the same. Despite this, Ibrohimov was the most active but was penalised a second time. In golden score, against all odds, it was Saba Sabashvili who scored ippon with a masterpiece, driving and o-uchi-gari that literally pinned his opponent on to his back. The bronze medal was for Sabashvili.
Final (-55 kg)
Bronze Medal Fights (-55 kg)
Final Results (-55 kg)
