Konstantinos Tsaparas reached the -60kg final at the U18 European Judo Cup in Naples, winning the silver medal, while Tsutlashvili was third at the men’s European Open in Sofia.
This was the first international medal for the 16-year-old Tsapara, but also the first international honor for the 20-year-old Chutlashvili at the men’s level.
Eleni-Apollonia Dimitriadis (-52kg.) also reached the threshold of the bronze medal in Italy, who was ranked fifth, while in the same category Maria-Eleni Gogua was seventh.
First “big” medal for Tsapara
Konstantinos Tsaparas celebrated his first international medal organized by EJU in Naples. About five months after winning the bronze medal at the Balkan Championships in Turkey, the young judoka, with coach Yiannis Papachristidis by his side, looked unstoppable in the -60 kg category, reaching the final with five consecutive wins, specifically over Ukraine’s Ponomarenko , the Italian Mengini, the Canadian Neptune, the Israeli Cohen and the French Guettari.
In the gold medal match, he was defeated on points by Italy’s Esposito.
In the same event, Dimitriadis reached the repechage final at -52 kg with three wins in four matches, where she was defeated by the French Poulanze, as a result of which she finished fifth, while in the same category Gogua, with two wins in four matches, was ranked seventh .
First international medal at men’s level for Chutlashvili
Chutlashvili won his first international medal at the men’s level in Sofia. In a numerous category, that of -73 kg, where a total of 53 (!) judokas participated, the “bronze” U18 champion in 2019, under the guidance of the national coach Nikos Iliadis, managed to be on the winners’ podium with a total of four victories in five matches.
He reached the semi-finals undefeated (victory over the German Meier, the French Bladin and the Romanian Sulca), where he was defeated by the Romanian Raiku. In the final of the second chance, the fifth Mediterranean last June in Oran, defeated the Kazakh Narkulov with an amazing Ippon.
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