Etoile Sportif member du Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis) won a new medal for France at the World Judo Championships in Tashkent. It is also the second medal for Ile-de-France after Amandine Buchard’s (-52kg) victory last Friday.
For the first World Championships of her career, the tricolor judoka Manon Deketer got the bronze medal in the category this Sunday in Tashkent less than 63 kg, the one where Clarisse Agbégnénou usually shines.
The 24-year-old Etoile Sportive du Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis) graduate beat the Pole in the repechage final Angelika Szymanska thanks to a balayage brave waza-ari. “I am proud of myself (…) I feel so good!“, blew up the 18th world after he received his medal.
Taking advantage of the absence in her category of the five-time world champion e reigning champion Clarisse Agbégnénou, recovering from maternity leave, he had obtained qualification for these World Cups thanks to his good results this season, especially in the Grand Slams.
“He has shown that he is capable of standing on the world podium“, his congratulated her French team coach Séverine Vandenhende. “Unfortunately he makes a half dumpling but it’s his best season. Then why not for the next, go get the title?“
Exempted from the first round, she had started her day with a serious fight against modest Uzbek Sevinch Isokova before eliminating Dutch Sanne Vermeer, bronze medal at the last World Cup. He then crossed the quarterfinals en immobilizer to Roumaine Florentina Ivanescu.
But in the semifinal she didn’t find the solution against the number 3 in the world, la Canadian Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard, who sent her to the repechage. “I had been warned that she did a lot of field work and I stayed too passive when I should have been blocking or defending and sadly me I hadcommented Manon Deketer.
The Dunkirk native brings France its second medal in this World Cup, which is also the second medal for Ile-de-France after the bronze won on Friday by Amandine Buchard – registered with PSG – in under 52kg.
Long locked in her category by Agbégnénou, Manon Deketer isn’t necessarily one the most awaited judoka during this Uzbek week. During the European Championships at the end of April he hadn’t been able to seize the opportunity, eliminated in the first round. But after “an interrogation“And”Very Working“, she approached the World Cup with much more determination.
“There hasn’t always been that trust. She depreciated a bit today he clearly realizes what he is capable of“, valued on the coach. “It will do well. On paper, of the girls, she was the one she seemed the least armed but proved to be able to beat her improve.“
From there to shake up the hierarchy in those under 63kg and get your ticket for the 2024 Olympics at Agbégnénou’s expense? “Clarisse, you have your career, I have mine and frankly I try to make it
in my own way without thinking about what is happening around“, he assured. “We’ll see, but I’m thinking to myself. All races, all medals, I’ll take them and we’ll see at the end.”
The day went less well for the other Frenchman involved on Sunday, Alpha Djalo. Eliminated in the second round, he was the victim of the number 1 in the world, the Georgian Tato Grigalashvili, who ended up winning the title. Monday Marie-Eve Gahié and Margaux Pinot (-70 kg) and Alexis Mathieu (-90 kg) kg) enter the scrum.
Source: AFP
