Thanks to his victory in the final of the world championships in Budapest on Saturday October 28, 2023, Lorraine Steven Da Costa won a third crown in the -67kg category. He beat Montenegrin Nenad Dulovic by 5 points to 3.
He suffered an astonishing defeat in the quarter-final of the Dublin Open on Friday September 8, 2023. The Lorraine recognized it: his season had been short, few fights, and some doubts. But Steven Da Costa, Olympic champion in Tokyo in 2021, wanted to achieve an unprecedented feat in his discipline: win the world crown three times in a row. It’s done after his victory in the final of the World Championships in Budapest!
The native of Mont-Saint-Martin logically beat the Montenegrin Nenad Dulovic. After gold in Madrid in 2018 and Dubai in 2021, Steven Da Costa brings back the most precious medal from Budapest.
Steven Da Costa in training, watched by his father. • © France Télévisions
Tomorrow Sunday October 29, 2023, Meurthe-et-Mosellan will try to hang another medal around its neck. By team, notably with his twin brother Jessie, Steven Da Costa will try to beat Kazakhstan to get on the third step of the podium. In the semi-finals, the Blues, reigning European vice-champions, failed against Egypt.
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