The honor is save for the French team: Marie-Eve Gahié and Margaux Pinot will face each other in the final of the World Championships in Abu Dhabi in the -70 kg category, ensuring a first title for the Blues in this edition.
After the bronze medals of Amandine Buchard (-52 kg) and Clarisse Agbégnénou (-63 kg) obtained in recent days, the Blues will add to their total at least one gold and silver medal on Wednesday thanks to – 70 kg.
In quick succession, Pinot and Gahié dispatched their opponents in the semi-finals to aim for the coronation: the first defeated the Greek Elisabet Teltsidou on ippon in just 19 seconds, the second took 1 min 23 to get rid of the Belgian Gabriella Willems on two waza-ari. Selected for the Olympic Games, Gahié will aim for her second world crown at the age of 27 after that of 2019.
On the contrary, victim of the system with only one place per category and per nation at the Olympics, Pinot will seek her first world title at the end of the afternoon at the age of 30. She finished in bronze in 2019.
In the -78 kg category, Madeleine Malonga (selected for the Games) and Audrey Tcheuméo will try to collect bronze, each in a different fight, respectively against the Korean Lee Jeong-yun and the British Emma Reid.