The Portuguese judokas were eliminated this Sunday at the Madrid Open without reaching the medal matches, with Joana Crisóstomo (-70 kg) being the closest to reaching the decisive matches.
Joana Crisóstomo began by defeating the Jamaican Ebony Drysdale in the first match and then beat the Indian Ranjeeta, finally being defeated by the Puerto Rican María Pérez, which made her fall to the playoffs.
Still hoping to get the bronze, the Portuguese judoka ended up being defeated by the Swiss Alina Lengweiler and was unable to enter the decisive fight.
At -78 kg, Carolina Paiva won the first fight, against the Ukrainian Nataliia Chystiakova, but was defeated in the next fight against the French Chloe Buttigieg.
In the men’s sector, Manuel Rodrigues was exempt in the first round at -81 kg and in his first fight he defeated the Israeli Guy Kochav, but was defeated in the next fight against the Frenchman Pape Ndiaye, while João Fernando, in the same category . He too was exempt, but lost on his debut to Spaniard Javier Olivares.
At -90 kg, Anri Egutidze was exempt in the first round and beat Frenchman Teo Herbier in his debut, before being defeated by Austrian Mario Buchebner.
At -100kg, Ailton Cardoso and Diogo Brites were eliminated in the first fight by Matej Silvestr of the Czech Republic and Nicolas Pavlovski of France, respectively.
On Saturday, the judoka Joana Diogo won the silver medal in the -52 kg category, the only one for Portugal at the Madrid Open.
Source: Observadora
