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World Junior Champion Nami Nabekura defeats Senior World Champ Trstenjak
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25 Jun 2016 21:50
by Mark Pickering - IJF
IJF Media Team / International Judo Federation
Japanese Junior world champion Nabekura Nami starred for a youthful Japanese team as world and European champion Tina Trstenjak of Slovenia was cast aside in the U63kg final. Nabekura, from Himeji, Hyogo, Japan, was not fazed by the red backpatch status of world champion Trstenjak as she caught the Slovenian with an osoto-gari for a yuko score and looked like she belonged on the world stage.
Nabekura, 19, won her maiden Grand Prix after two shido penalties for passivity and a shido against Trstenjak for a gripping infringement were deemed insignificant due to the only score of the four minute contest going in the favour of the Japanese.
In the first bronze medal contest Oceania Championships winner Katharina Haecker of Australia defeated Junior World Championships bronze medallist Lucy Renshall (GBR) with a koshi-jime strangle to the delight of her ecstatic coach.
The second bronze medal contest featured former Lisbon European Open silver medallist Amy Livesey (GBR) and Pan American Championships bronze medallist Estefania Garcia from Ecuador and it was 22-year-old Livesey from SKK Judo Club in St Helens, England, who earned her first Grand Prix honours. The British fighter produced two yuko scores without reply for a brilliant result on her Grand Prix debut.
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