Last year’s European BHSE champion is the 14th Polish in the world rankings He started with Julia Kowalczyk in the Nippon Budokan Hall.
Péter Toncs’s student initiated more, but did not find a catch on his opponent. It was a minute and a half from the clash when Karakas tried to start again, but Kowalczyk managed to throw him away with a head-turn. The jury watched the action on video and ruled that the Hungarian had fallen to his side, so the judge signaled a vase. Karakas was waved for an exit not long after and went forward, but that was enough to warn the Polishman at the last minute as well.
I didn’t have my two elbows down and he twisted in from there, but I need to watch a video of exactly how it happened
said Karakas Hedvig about the action that decided the match.
I’ve always beaten it relatively smoothly so far, whether at training camp or competition. I knew he wouldn’t want to judo, put his hand away, I don’t understand why he wasn’t gestured. Unfortunately, I was stuck with the fact that the Polish did not try to launch an action and I could no longer switch after the Vazaari. It’s hard to say anything now because I had the tactics, but he didn’t want to do anything. I didn’t expect that, despite the not-so-good draw, I thought I could start the tatami ok today. I did everything during the preparation, there was no sign of this performance. I try to process what happened, and then we’ll see …
– said 31-year-old Karakas Hedvig, who was the female athlete of the year in Hungary last year. The He gave a major interview to Index last Novemberhe said that in recent years he had only been preoccupied with the Olympics, he was just prepared for it.
I have a fifth and a seventh place so far for the London and Rio Olympics, so I’ve been close to it both times, but unfortunately it didn’t work out. I have the will absolutely in me, I hope to finally succeed this time, because this is clearly my biggest goal right now.
Karakas Hedvig told the Index last year.
From a Hungarian point of view, the day of judo competition ended with the elimination of Karakas. On Tuesday, Özbas Szofi (63 kg) and Attila Ungvári (81) will step on the tatami.
(Cover image: The fight between Karakas Hedvig (in blue) and Poland’s Julia Kowalczyk in the qualifier for the 57kg weight group of female jugglers at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics at the Nippon Budokan Arena on 26 July 2021 was postponed due to the global coronavirus epidemic. Karakas Hedvig was eliminated. Photo: Zsolt Czeglédi / MTI )
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