After each World Judo Tour event, our photographers propose you to discover the top five images of the event. Discover below the top 5 pictures of the Paris Grand Slam 2018 by Gabriela Sabau, IJF Photographer.
Every year, the Paris Grand Slam welcomes more than 15,000 spectators per day and the AccordHotels Arena stands vibrate with joy and passion.
In the first round of the -66kg weight category, SHERSHAN Dzmitry (BLR) is thrown by Tarlan Karimov (AZE) with a massive te-waza technique for ippon.
Some months ago, Christa DEGUCHI was still competing for Japan but last summer she decided to compete under the Canadian flag. In the final of the -57kg weight category, she defeated her former teammate YOSHIDA Tsukasa (JPN).
Audrey TCHEUMEO (FRA) was playing at home in front of her public and she superbly won the title in -78kg. Despite her communicative happiness and the communion with the public, she showed her fairplay towards her opponent Gussje STEENHUIS (NED) and later on helped her to step on the podium as the Dutch athlete was injured. This is judo.
The concurrence in -63kg between the two top athletes of the category, Tina TRSTENJAK (SLO) and Clarisse AGBEGNENOU (FRA) is fierce but in her own playground, the latter was definitely the strongest.