In the next round, it was with two new techniques, uchi-mata and ko-soto-gake, that Veg won against Zaur Duniamaliiev (UKR), thus demonstrating the full extent of his talent. Unfortunately in the next round, Rhys Thompson (GBR) proved intractable and scored a first time with sumi-otoshi and then with kata-guruma. In a few fights, we had already witnessed 6 different judo techniques.
In the second part of the draw, Simeon Catharina (NED) won his first round contest with a seoi-otoshi after a tiring golden score period. The same scenario was repeated for the Dutch judoka in the next round, a seoi-otoshi in golden score against Iosif Simin (ISR). Probably blunted by these first two contests, he was eliminated in the semi-final by Anton Savytskiy (UKR) who joined Thompson in the final.
Despite the final being well balanced, Anton Savytskiy (UKR) managed to score a waza-ari with a subtle o-uchi-gari, while Thompson went for the ko-soto-gari. This was enough for Savytskiy to win the gold medal for Ukraine.
The first contest for a bronze medal opposed Zaur Duniamaliiev (UKR) and Simeon Catharina (NED). The Dutch judoka scored a first waza-ari with a great change of direction concluded with a ko-uchi-gari. Duniamaliiev came back to score before the end of normal time. In the golden score period, we could feel that the victory could go either way. Eventually it was Duniamaliiev who produced a huge effort to throw his opponent with a hip movement. The bronze medal was for Ukraine.
Iosif Simin (ISR) and Zsombor Veg (HUN) faced each other for the second bronze medal. Zsombor Veg being unable to compete, the medal went to Iosif Simin (ISR).
Final (-100 kg)
Bronze Medal Fights (-100 kg)
