UAE Judo Team Wins Second Bronze Medal at Grand Prix Championship in Tajikistan

Dushanbe, June 5, WAM/ The UAE Judo Team added a second bronze medal to its tally in the Grand Prix Championship, which concluded yesterday evening in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and its prize money amounted to 100,000 euros.
And our player Marouf Omar was able to get the bronze medal in the weight of more than 100 kg, after defeating Kazi Brasil, the champion of Kazakhstan, to raise the balance of the Emirates at the end of the tournament to two bronze medals, after the bronze of the player Bushrat in the weight of 52 kg for women. With this result, our team was able to achieve the top of the Arab teams in that championship and the thirteenth place in the overall standings.
The tournament acquires its importance in light of the qualifying points obtained by male and female players and helps them advance to participate in the finals of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The Tajikistan national team ranked first at the team level with 7 medals, including 3 gold medals, 3 silver medals and one bronze, benefiting from the participation of 34 male and female players as the largest delegations. .

The heavy weight qualifiers on the closing day witnessed the brilliance of our player Aram, who is participating in the under-90 kg category, when he surpassed the most prominent ranked players in his group, who are the champion of Bahrain and the champion of Tajikistan, while he received his first loss from the Czech Kelmart to conclude his participation in fifth place.
As for Marouf Omar, he would have been close to the gold medal for the weight of more than 100 kg, had it not been for the intervention of the mouse in the qualifying match for the semi-final round against the Polish player Kasper, and he faced in the consolation matches the German Abramov Eric and outperformed him, then the champion of Tajikistan Miramadov and was able to win against him as well Then it was the bronze medal meeting, in which he beat the Kazakh champion.