Tokyo (AFP)

Clarisse Agbégnénou, flag bearer of the French delegation to the Tokyo Olympics, was crowned Tuesday Olympic champion in judo in the -63 kg category, a gold medal which crowns her breathtaking record.

To win this medal, the sixth for the Blues and the second in gold in Tokyo, Agbégnénou, already five times world champion and five times European champion, beat by waza-ari in the golden score the Slovenian Tina Trstenjak, who had beaten her in the final of the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

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