Marie-Eve Gahié (-70 kg) was crowned world champion of judo for the first time, at 22, beating in less than a minute the Portuguese Barbara Timo in the final, Thursday in Tokyo, at one year of the Olympics -2020 in the Japanese capital.
Marie-Eve Gahié brings to the French team its third medal of the Japanese week, the second in gold after that won by Clarisse Agbegnenou (-63 kg) Wednesday. She will be accompanied on the podium by Margaux Pinot (25), bronze medalist moments earlier at the expense of Anna Bernholm (ippon) of Sweden.
Axel Clerget bronze in -90 kg
Frenchman Axel Clerget (-90 kg) won the bronze medal at the World Judo Championships. At 32, Clerget climbs for the second time on a world podium after his bronze medal last year. Defeated in the quarter-finals by Noel Van't End of the Netherlands, he won his gold medal game against Azerbaijan Mammadali Mehdiyev and Marcus Nyman of Sweden on ippon two seconds from the end of his fight for 3rd place .