Friday, April 22, 2016

Polling gets European title lost bronze for Van Emden in Kazan – NU.nl

In the battle for bronze Polling was after just two minutes on her back jumbled Szabina Gercsak from Hungary. Gercsak thus scored an ippon, good for bronze.

The 25-year-old Polling lost earlier in the semifinals of World Champion Gévrise emanating. The 33-year-old Frenchwoman was with a yuko too strong for Groningen who won at the last three European Championships gold in the category up to 70 kg.

semane also captured the European gold after the world title. In the final, the Frenchwoman was too strong for Esther Stam, the former Dutch champion who decided to come out in 2014 for Georgia because of Polling competition in her weight class.

emanating took Tribe after about 2 , 5 minutes into the hold, where the born South Holland no longer came. French judoka has already been World and European Champion in the class up to 63 kilograms.



Van Emden

Van Emden was able to win a medal on the retakes the class to 63 kilograms . After a victory in the Dutch-together with Juul Franssen was the 29-year-old judoka in the battle for the bronze on penalties too strong for former world champion Yarden Gerbi of Israel.

Gerbi had two strafjes judo after four minutes her name and Van Emden one, so they gave the first medal for the Dutch in the Russian city. The Hague captured two years ago bronze at the European Championships. In 2011 she was good for silver.

Van Emden and Franssen lost Friday both in the quarterfinals and therefore also had to in the retakes, where bronze was the maximum possible.

Emden nominated by the Dutch judo federation for the Olympics next summer in Rio de Janeiro. Franssen has been designated a reserve in this weight class.



Men

Frank de Wit has his debut could not grace the European Championships with a medal. The 20-year-old North Hollander, who plays in the class up to 81 kilograms, choked on the party to bronze in Robin Pacek from Sweden. De Wit was taken by surprise, ended up in a headlock and was soon tapping out.

European Championship debutant had therefore to settle for fifth place. De Wit was the tournament in Kazan started with a victory over the Briton Owen Livesey, but then lost by Ivailo Ivanov from Bulgaria.

In the rematch was the junior world first too strong for the Belgian Joachim Bottieau but the battle for the bronze medal ended in disappointment for De Wit. In August beckons for judo talent a debut at the Olympics.

Sam van ‘t Westende saved in the class to 73 kilograms in the men out of the retakes. The Dutchman lost on ippon of the Slovenian Rok Draksic and ends as seventh at the European Championships.

Dex Elmont earlier on Friday in the same class in the third round off Igor Wandtke from Germany.

By: ANP / NU.nl

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