Tokyo (AFP)

The boss Teddy Riner absent, focused on his quest for a third Olympic title in a year, the Czech Lukas Krpalek was crowned world champion heavyweight (-100 kg) beating the Japanese Hisayoshi Harasawa penalties in the final on Saturday in Tokyo.

Krpalek, 28, the reigning Olympic champion, won her first world gold in the queen category at the expense of the 2016 runner-up after nearly four minutes of fight in the golden score, the extension after the four minutes of fighting.

Double Olympic champion in title and ten times world champion (eight times in +100 kg, twice in all categories), Riner (30 years) preferred to skip the global rendezvous, as in 2018, to spare in the perspective of the Olympic high mass in eleven months in the Japanese capital.

On the women's side, Akira Sone (-78 kg) brought Japan, at only 19, its fifteenth medal of the week, its fourth gold, which allows his country to finish at the top of the ranking of nations, ahead of France (5, including 3 gold), at the end of the seven days of individual events.

The Tokyo competition ends Sunday with the mixed team event, which enters the Olympic program in the Olympics 2020.

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