The two judokas compete this Sunday at the World Masters to try to win gold. An important fight on the horizon of the Paris 2024 Games.
Two Franciliennes for a gold medal. Judokate Romane Dicko (+78 kg), from Clamart in Hauts-de-Seine and 2022 world champion, and Julia Tolofua, 2023 world vice-champion, are competing this Sunday for the gold medal in the final of the Budapest World Masters. The young woman, who trains at ESBM Judo in Blanc-Mesnil in Seine-Saint-Denis, was crowned French champion in 2017 in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
A duel between the two best French women in this category, two Franciliennes in addition, who compete with the Olympic Games-2024 in Paris in sight, where only one of the two will represent France in the heavyweight category. The two Blues have met twice, in the semi-finals in 2022, at the Tel Aviv tournament and at the Tashkent Worlds with, each time, a victory for Romane Dicko.
After her disappointment at the Worlds in May in Doha, where she was eliminated from the start, Romane Dicko, 23, impressed on Sunday. The resident of PSG Judo won two of her three fights in less than a minute by ippon. A Japanese term for the highest score a fighter can achieve that immediately gives victory.
Julia Tolofua, 26, had more difficulties, with two fights won on disqualification after penalties from the opponent.
The World Masters, which brings together the 36 best in each category, is the second most important competition of the year, after the Worlds.
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