Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
It was a sharp wake up call for Serena ONDEI (ITA) in the final of the -70kg category, in only 7 seconds, Barchinoy KODIROVA (UZB) countered with ura nage to score waza ari, and unfortunately for Ondei she was unable to find her way back, Kodirova scoring again with seoi…
27 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Though a European silver medal is most definitely something to be celebrated, just missing out on the gold is bittersweet. This was the case for KENDERESI Peter (HUN) in the cadet European championships earlier this year, but he turned his final fate around today and took gold along with a…
27 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The last day of the individual competition saw the -90kg, +90kg, -70kg and +70kg battle it out for the last of the world titles on offer. Number one seed and current European champion in the -90kg category, Milan BULAJA (SRB) gave great performances in his earlier rounds, with the first…
27 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The EJU President, Dr. László Tóth is in attendance of the cadet world championships in Sarajevo this week, and is highly impressed with the organisation as well as the development of the young athletes from nations around the world. First of all, for me it is one of the most important…
26 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The third day of the cadet world championships saw Europe take two gold medals, one for Gor KARAPETYAN of Armenia, and well timed it was following a cadet European silver and EYOF bronze, and then the other was taken by Sinem ORUC of Türkiye. Having no medals prior to the…
26 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Multiple continents were strong today in the -57kg, -73kg, -63kg and -81kg categories, which also meant that Europe couldn’t claim all of the final places, in fact, only the -63kg saw an all-European final. First up were the -57kg women. We had two guaranteed bronze medals as Poland, Italy, Latvia…
26 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
We are now in day three of the cadet world championships here in Sarajevo and we have already seen terrific judo, looking forward to the final block, but who will we see there? The first of the semi finals was between the current cadet European champion Giorgi MISHVELIDZE (GEO) and…
26 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
It was also a day of firsts for Team Italy, taking a gold in the -52kg category. Prior to the cadet European championships, the favourite for the Italians in this category was Michela TERRANOVA, but after a winning streak in European cup events, she has been stalled in majors, placing…
26 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
On the first day of the cadet world championships 2022, Georgia picked up two bronze medals in the -55kg category and once they had set the ball rolling, the success flooded the team on day two. In both the -60kg and -66kg they stepped up to take gold medals for…
26 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The second day in Sarajevo was a great one for Europe, France continued their collection and remained on top of the medal tally, but others have began to play catch up. In the first final, current cadet European champion, Tara BABULFATH (SWE) was the initial European hope. The young Swedish…
25 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The first of the semi finals was between the -60kg number one seed, Nizami IMRANOV (AZE) and Davit KARELI (GEO). Without the gi, one could have mistaken this for a wrestling bout, the styles so similar. Unfortunately it was a case of disqualification for the cadet European champion, Imranov and…
25 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The -40kg category finalists opened the first final block in the cadet world championships and what an explosive start it was. Cadet European finalists, Patricia TOMANKOVA (SVK) and Zilan ERTEM (TUR) took the bronze medals today and in the final, Anastasiia SUPERSON (UKR) and Begumnaz DOGRUYOL (TUR) went head to…
24 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wandel does it again. The Dutch sensation has already impressed us on numerous occasions and this year took the cadet European title, shortly followed by a gold medal in the European Youth Olympic Festival, and now can boast an -44kg cadet world title in her growing collection. Although she left…
24 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
It was perhaps an unsurprising morning here in Sarajevo for the first day of the cadet world championships 2022. Many of the top seeds fought their way in to the finals and we can celebrate the fact that we have four all-European finals. Anastasiia SUPERSON (UKR) took away the title…
24 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
As it stands, the top four athletes in the -90kg category are the four medallists from the cadet European championships, and also happen to be in medal order! Milan BULAJA (SRB), KENDERESI Peter (HUN), Maksims BIZANS (LAT) and Oleksii BOLDYRIEV (UKR) are, by results, the best Europe has to offer…
22 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Day three of the cadet world championships 2022 will see the current European and EYOF champion Fidan ALIZADA (AZE) lead the -57kg charge. What was a surprise win for the young Azerbaijan athlete in Poreč turned out to be a sign for the future as she dominated her category again…
22 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Țara BABULFATH (SWE) is back. We missed her in the European Youth Olympic Festival as she competed in a junior European event, which she placed first in, and now she is ready to take on the athletes from the rest of the world for the number one title. Of course…
20 August 2022Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Just as the dust settles from the excitement of the junior world championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador, we now get ready for the cadets in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. We have 482 athletes travelling to the capital, 60 countries from 6 continents coming together to decide who will be the best…
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Sarajevo World Cadets Championships 2022