Judo upper austria grand prix 2025 - 90 kg - final block

of Serbia, it'll be Okada in the white jerogi, Radul in blue. The referee in the middle for this one is Andrea Sismic of Croatia. I think this might be the first time she's been in the final block. New to the world tour. Well it's great experience for them isn't it? You know, new and breaking through glass ceilings and making the final block of Grand Prix's, Grand Slams. Very important for the referees as well. Yeah, good for her. Third day of competition for her and she finds herself in in the middle. This is a toughie as well for Okada because Radul has been fighting really well. Yeah, it's gonna be a tough one because I mean he hasn't got a world ranking. He's never, we said it earlier, I think that he's never been out actually to one of the major senior events. They just sent him to one of the junior European Cups. Yeah, so I mean every second out there and he is fighting for third, remember, is experience for them. But sometimes we wonder, don't we, as to why, you know, with so much depth that they have. And they're always looking for 90 kilo fighters. I mean they've always struggled. I remember the great rivalries between Ilias Iliadis and who did he have? He had two, didn't he, specifically that he used to fight. Finals of World Championships and things. But they're always looking for contenders at 90 kilograms. Baker Mashew broke the mold a little bit for them when he took the under 90 kilo category but the Georgians had kind of owned it. Yeah. I know we've spoken about it before. They certainly own it now. I mean Irakli Tsirakidze before that, Zurab Tzviadouri, now Lasha Bakauri twice. We're all in that one weight category. And then you've got people like Greg Alishvili that decides to go up and have a little pop at the heavier weight category. It's going to be interesting to see what happens on the route to Los Angeles, who's going to come out on top there. There's a way to go anyway. Well he's been trying that particular obituary gauge there all the time, Okada. He hasn't had a lot of success with it. Just not quite getting enough lift, I'm thinking, and enough control of the upper part of the body. Radul physically very, very strong. You can see that, can't you? You know, he's starting to kind of manhandle Okada a little bit. It's not unusual for the Japanese to pick up a passivity penalty. They tend to want to just get to, literally get to grips with it and feel their opponents out. But it doesn't seem to phase them. You know, they get the first penalty and then they just continue doing what they were doing before. Right-to-right extreme. Are they going to be tempted to just go around the outside of that leg? That's going to be a score and that Uchimata there, hopping Uchimata, gets a Wazari there for Okada. Look at that, he's not on the sleeve either. He just lost the sleeve. He just had the lapel. He wasn't concerned about the Shido that he picked up. He continued the same tempo and then the one big attack that he launched, he came up with the score. Half a minute left to go. Possibly get a second Shido here if he doesn't do something. He'll want to go in for the Nawaza again. Like I say, just not tight with that obituary geishi there. Radul showing some signs under that left eye of a bit of a bruise. It looks as though he's been there for a while, you know, because he's really discoloured. Four seconds left on the clock and it's just going to go away from him and Okada just does enough. Radul picks up a fifth place finish. Okada, however, is the medal winner. Yes, just did enough, didn't he? And it was all about just having enough control to finish off. He didn't have the sleeve. I mean, he went off the double lapel. Had to just get enough landing there to get a score. Well, it was more than just enough, actually. It went 90 degrees plus, so it was a Wazari score. I think that's the first time that Radul has been in the final block, so it's not, you know, not a bad result for him. A fifth place finish. He's getting up there. See the landing there, 90 degrees there towards the back. Almost turned 180 degrees, didn't it? It looked like it was going one way and he steered it the other. Coming up next, the second of the bronze medal contests in the under 90 kilo category. Thomas Scharffetter of Austria goes up against Marcello Francoviac of Brazil. It'll be Scharffetter in the white jerogi, Francoviac in blue. The referee in the medal for this one is Craig Bartlett of New Zealand. Yes, Francoviac. I'm impressed with him, actually. I thought he had some really nice judo all the way through the day, but lost to... Was it Grzegorz Ashvili he lost to Francoviac? No, it was... So he beat Zilka. Jamin Ashvili, wasn't it? It was Jamin Ashvili there that... Jamin Ashvili got his number, but I think he's going to be hard work for Scharffetter, but Scharffetter has the support. He was a silver medal winner at the Grand Slam in Baku. That's where you remember him from. He made quite a mark there. Well, this is where the advantage of having all your family and friends, coaches, everybody up there in the in the stands. Is he going for the shimmy was here, Francoviac? Scharffetter gets gets a shido, but it gets taken off. You can hear that slap. Yes, it's thundering the right arm, wasn't it? Going over the top there. They're cancelling each other out, these two, aren't they? Well, he'd given him the warning before, hadn't he? Craig Bartlett, and they decided to cancel that, but not this time. So he does pick up the shido for passivity. Oh, that's better, and that's going to be a yuko, landed on his buttocks. The bottom part of the yuko. You've got the top half, OK? You just couldn't rotate the lower half of the body, because that would have been really threatening. Nice and tight at the top. Unfortunately, couldn't get the rotation Didn't like that grip, did he, there? Francoviac. Oh, sonu, geishi there. Scharffetter decided to have a little go at the outside of the leg there. Got to, hasn't he? Time ticking away very quickly. Inside the last minute now. Well, just about a minute and four seconds left on the clock. Yes, the hands were not working as well as they could be. He's strong, isn't he? Francoviac, because he was on the way back. He was on the way. We've seen a lot of those action-reaction kouchi garis, haven't we? And, like you say, he was on the way, decides to turn it. That's it, Pon. And that, oh, sonu there, finishes it all off. He knows he's been caught. Yeah, well, I've been caught. And an appreciative round of applause from the crowd as well. Not sure it would have been the same reception in Paris. Probably not. Well, Neil, you did ask about him in the break. You were, you know, checking the background and because it's not as though he's burst onto the scene, but definitely the last few results that he's had have drawn, you know, caught our attention. Depends how much Portuguese you speak, but I think that was a message home. It was, I had a feeling. Happy days for Marcelo Francoviac of Brazil. It was a good effort from Thomas Schnafeter, you know, it's not the kind of rarefied results, region that you find him in very often. There's an Osorogare. I, when I saw it fast or quickly, I thought Osorogare, but he goes off the sleeve there and the hips are right the way across, just drives it off to the side. Yes, Schnafeter has picked up a bronze medal at a Grand Prix previously, so maybe done him a disservice. Orlando Cruz of the Dominican Republic is the referee in the middle for what we should have had, which was a final of the under 90 kilo category between of Georgia and Tato Grigolashvili of Georgia. Unfortunately, Grigolashvili picked up a shoulder injury in the semi-final and is unable to compete. So Georgi Jabniashvili, it is, who takes the gold medal. I heard from someone.