Vorobeva went ahead, registering a small but important yuko in the first minute but by the beginning of the third, Kondo had found her rhythm in ne-waza where she used the tatami and the space around her expertly to in Vorobeva for ippon. Kondo had her 2nd grand slam gold medal!
Sabina Giliazova (IJF) faced well-supported home nation athlete Narantsetseg Ganbaatar (MGL) for the first bronze medal of the whole event. Giliazova was the more aggressive of the two, attacking more frequestly than her counterpart. It paid off at the halfway point when she refused to give up on a dynamic and challenging exchange and threw for a waza-ari with an o-soto-gari. This forced Ganbaatar to increase the pressure but Giliazova was prepared to withstand it. She won the medal in a real battle.
In the second bronze medal contest of the weight group Sarah Ischt (GER) and cadet Misheel Altanshagai (MGL) were both determined they would leave with the medal but only one of them could. Sarah Ischt put the first score on the board but she followed it up with a kata-sangaku movement when her opponent had already stood up. This is forbidden due to its potentially dangerous consequences and so Ischt was disqualified.
Altanshagai has her first grand slam medal at the first time of asking. This teenager will next compete at the 2025 World Cadet Championships in Bulgaria and it is certain she will arrive there with great confidence after such an international debut.
Final (-48 kg)
Bronze Medal Fights (-48 kg)
