Judoka Joanne van Lieshout is world champion

It would not occur typically {that a} Dutch girl turns into world champion within the Japanese protection sport. Van Lieshout is just the seventh to carry the title. This final occurred fifteen years in the past by Marhinde Verkerk.

Star on the event

In judo it’s important to get the opposite participant on the again by varied throws. You try this in opposition to judokas with roughly the identical physique weight. Van Lieshout competed within the weight class beneath 63 kilos, the place she first needed to beat 4 robust opponents. She gained in opposition to all of them with an ‘ippon’. That may be a throw wherein the opposite participant lands on his again and also you instantly win the match.