The Portuguese judoka Jorge Fonseca defends the 2019 and 2021 world titles on Tuesday with a high-risk fight, against a former world champion and medalist at the Olympic Games.
In the debut of Jorge Fonseca in the World Championship, in Tashkent, the Portuguese, leader of the world ranking -100 kg, will face a former champion of -90 kgwho in 2021 left Cuba for Romania, beginning to compete in the higher weight.
Still for Cuba, Asley Gonzaléz was world champion in 2013 and bronze medal in 2011, still in the previous weight, and at the 2012 London Olympics he was runner-upin the period in which it had better results.
For Jorge Fonseca it is a very difficult fight to open his participation, taking into account that Gonzaléz recently moved up in category and is part of the 25th position in the ranking, despite having been silver at the Paris Grand Slam in 2021. .
Fonseca has already recognized that the World Cups are one of the competitions that he likes to play the most, but he discards the pressure of defending a title and in his case two in a row, after in 2019 he became the first Portuguese judoka to be world champion .
In Humo Arena, a pavilion with a capacity for 12,500 spectators and which has more than half a full house every day, the judoka is the sixth to enter action on tatami 1, with eliminations scheduled for 10:00 local time (6:00 am local time). 00 hours in Lisbon).
In the World Championships, which will be held since Thursday, Portugal has already had six of the eight registered judokas in action, in a campaign in which the bronze medal of Bárbara Timo stands out, with -63 kg.
Source: Observadora
