The 2018 European girls’ champion and runner-up at last year’s European Junior Taekwondo Championships, Thenia Sarvanakis, gave Greece its 13th world championship medal at the Guadalajara event on Wednesday at -62 kg, while this is the fourth silver after those of Morphos Drosidou (1993, 1997) and Katerina Bassi (1993).
Sarvanaki, No. 18 in the world ranking, on the way to the final of the event fought and justified the fifth place she won at the European Championship in Manchester a few months ago.
He had the easiest task in the round of “32”, where he faced the Ivoriani ‘Ivo. After a first set where the victory was decided on supremacy (1-1), he took care of the second set to take it cleanly with a score of 8-1.
The hard times started in the “16”, where the 2021 European champion in Sofia and third in the 2019 World Cup in Manchester, the Croatian Bruna Vuletic, found her way. First set in favor of Sarvanakis in supremacy (0-0), in the second the Croatian won 4-3, to complete the Greek triumph in the third set with a score of 1-0.
In the quarterfinals, Sarvanaki prevailed 2-0 sets (7-2, 9-8) against Czech Petra Stolbova (second in the 2022 European Women’s).
In the race to enter the final, her opponent was the 2021 Asian champion and third in 2022, Uzebeka Feruza Santikova. Another clear victory for Sarvanakis with 2-0 (11-7, 7-1) and qualification to the final.
There, she was called upon to face Belgium’s Sarah Tsaari, who was third at the European Championships in Manchester. Sarvanaki won the first set 3-1, Tsaari equalized with a score of 3-2 in the second set and everything would be decided in the decisive third set. There, 10” before the end, the Greek champion was ahead with a score of 7-6, but Tsaari “grabbed” the victory from her in the remaining time with a score of 7-12.
Nasia Mitsopoulou, a member of the pre-Olympic team, had a difficult task at -67 kg, since in the round of 16 she was called to face the French Viet Enin, from whom she was defeated 2-0, losing the first set in the superiority.
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