Fran Garrigós wins the bronze medal for Spain in Judo, -60kg class
Paris 2024 Olympics – Judo – Males’s -60kg Victory Ceremony – Champ-de-Mars Enviornment, Paris, France – July 27, 2024. Bronze medallists Ryuju Nagayama of Japan and Francisco Garrigos of Spain pose for images on the rostrum REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Spain’s judoka Francisco Garrigos after profitable the bronze medal on the finish of his Males’s Judo -60kg match in opposition to Georgia’s Giorgi Sardalashvili, in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games this Saturday, within the French capital. EFE/ Chema Moya
Fran Garrigósworld champion in Doha in 2023 in -60 kilos, beat Georgian Giorgui Sardalashvili, second on the earth, this Saturday and gained bronze, the Spain’s first Olympic judo medal in 24 years.
Paris 2024 Olympics – Judo – Males’s -60kg Bronze Medal Contest B – Champ de Mars Enviornment, Paris, France – July 27, 2024. Francisco Garrigos of Spain celebrates after profitable his bout in opposition to Giorgi Sardalashvili of Georgia. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
The Madrid native obtained a hard-fought victory within the Golden Rating due to a Waza-ari and erased the Spanish dangerous luck that had lasted since Isabel Fernández gained gold in Sydney 2000.
Francisco Garrigos (blue) of Spain in motion in opposition to Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan within the males’s -60kg semifinal of the Judo competitions on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, on the Champs-de-Mars stadium in Paris, France, 27 July 2024. (France, Kazakhstan, Spain) EFE/EPA/DANIEL IRUNGU
Spain now has seven Olympic medals. Along with Fernández and Garrigós, there are additionally Miriam Blasco and Almudena Muñoz -both golds in Barcelona’92-; in Atlanta’96 Ernesto Pérez took silver; and Yolanda Soler and Isabel Fernández herself two bronzes, additionally in Atlanta.
