The experienced Priscilla Gneto (-57 kg) was beaten in the 2nd round of the World Championships by the Mongolian Enkhriilen Lkhagvatogoo on Monday in Abu Dhabi. The bronze medalist at the London Olympics in 2012, not selected for those in Paris this summer, deplored a “very frustrating” fight during which she “did not succeed in establishing and imposing (her) judo”.
“It’s a fight that was within my reach but it didn’t go as I would have liked, with the first penalty that I took, which changed the nature of the match because afterwards, with two penalties to one, I didn’t I had no more room for error,” she analyzed, the third sanction being eliminatory.
After his European bronze medal, Joan-Benjamin Gaba did not do it again: the French holder for the Olympics in the -73 kg category was beaten in the 2nd round of the World Championships in Abu Dhabi on Monday.
After taking out the Georgian Giorgi Terashvili, Joan-Benjamin Gaba lost in the next round, rolled on his back by the Brazilian Daniel Cargnin, Olympic (2021) and world (2022) medalist.
“He has malice, he got me,” lamented the 23-year-old Frenchman. “I hoped to do much better, the table was within my reach. Unfortunately it doesn’t happen but that doesn’t change the objective of the Games.