And four! Frenchwoman Clarisse Agbegnenou was crowned Wednesday (August 28th) in Tokyo, world champion of judo for the fourth time, after 2014, 2017 and 2018, beating in the final (-63 kg) the Japanese Miku Tashiro, at the end of a fierce fight of more than eleven minutes.
At 26, she became the first four-time world champion judoka, ahead of Lucie Décosse, Gévrise Emane and Brigitte Deydier, crowned three times.
The 2016 Olympic vice champion and four-time European champion, world number one in the category and undefeated for twenty months, is more than ever in the sights of Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Earlier this day, Clarisse Agbegnenou reached the semi-finals by sending two of her first fights in less than fifteen seconds (against Schlesinger and Liao), and the third in just over a minute (against Awiti Alcaraz).
The final against Miku Tashiro, world number three and already vice-champion of the outgoing world, was on the other hand an exhausting and unbreathable duel: penalized twice, against one for her Japanese opponent, the French finished to make fall his opponent after more than seven minutes in the golden score, the extension after the four minutes of fighting, to win by waza-ari.
Four days after the start of the competition in the illustrious Nippon Budokan, the French team finally holds its first medal of the Tokyo week.
With AFP