Cuban judoka Andy Granda won the gold medal this Sunday in the +100kg division of the Calgary 2023 Pan American and Oceania Judo Championships.
big, Tashkent world champion 2022, defeated the Brazilian Rafael Silva in the final, bronze medalist at the Doha 2023 World Judo Championships, where he had defeated the Cuban in the repechage,reportedJit.
In the semifinals, the man from Matanzas had beaten the Chilean Francisco Solís and in the quarterfinals the Colombian Alejandro Escobar.
In the same Granda category, Cuban Omar Cruz also placed fifth after losing in one of the bronze fights against Canadian Marc Deschenes.
For her part, the Olympic and world champion Idalys Ortiz (+78 kg) won the silver medal after losing in the final to the Brazilian Beatriz Souza, number 11 in the world ranking.
Guantanamo's Idelannis Gómez (70 kg) finished in fifth place after losing bronze to Brazilian Luana Carvalho.
Lianet Cardona (78 kg) was also defeated in the bronze metal dispute by the Australian María Swan.
Maikel Mkencie (81 kg) lost in his first fight against the Argentine Tomás Morales, also Liester Cardona (100 kg) against Ivo Dargoltz.
The official mediaJit He also reported that Iván Silva from Matanzas did not show up for the fights, without specifying the reasons for his absence.
Cuba finished in third place in the medal table of the competition, in which 159 competitors from 23 countries participated, with one gold, two silver medals and three bronze medals, after Brazil (6-4-5) and Canada (4-2 -2).
Last March, GrandaHe placed third in his category at the Tashkent Judo Grand Slam, the same city in Uzbekistan where he was crowned world champion in 2022.
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