Greece’s Ilias Iliadis threw Japan’s Daiki Nishiyama for the maximum ippon to retain his under-90kg title at the Judo World Championships in Paris on Friday.
In a repeat of last year’s final, the world number one attacked with a hip throw (tsuri-goshi) only to turn it into an outer leg sweep (osoto-gari) to bowl over the world number three.
World number two Takashi Ono of Japan produced a moment of brilliance to snatch a bronze medal from 2009 world champion Lee Kyu-Won with an inner thigh throw (uchi-mata) for ippon 30 seconds from the end of a bout in which he had been dominated and was trailing by a half-point waza-ari.
(source: sport in greece)
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