Asya Tavano reaches the heavyweight bronze final and save the blue budget on the fifth day of the 2024 World Judo Championships, currently taking place at the Mubadala Arena in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). After the premature elimination of Gennaro Pirelli in the -100 kg, the Friulian was the protagonist of an excellent journey in the +78 kg until the semi-finals, in which she lost to the Turkish expert Kayra Ozdemir.
In the afternoon (Final Block from 4.00 pm Italian time) the Italian will fight for a prestigious world championship bronze against the strong South Korean Kim Hayun (no. 7 in the ranking), but regardless of the outcome of the match has already guaranteed the certainty of appearing at the Paris 2024 Olympic tournament as one of the 8 seeds.
Today’s journey for the 21-year-old Italian began with a clear victory by ippon (double waza-ari) in 1’08” over the Lithuanian Sandra Jablonskyte and with a success by sum of penalties over the Tunisian Sarra Mzougui. Following this, Tavano got rid of the insidious Dutch Karen Stevenson in 1’20”, who had previously surprised the big Brazilian Beatriz Sousa, by ippon osae komi, while in the semi-final she lost by ippon to the 36-year-old Turkish Ozdemir.
