South Korea Judo team members Heo Mimi, Ahn Baul, Kim Ji-soo, Han Joo-yeop, Kim Ha-yoon, and Kim Min-jong are entering the match against Turkiye players in the round of 16 of the Paris Olympic mixed team judo tournament held at the Champ de Mars Arena in Paris, France on the afternoon of the 3rd (Korean time).
The judo team, which is challenging for its first medal in the Olympic mixed team event, lost to the host country France and was relegated to the repechage.
The world’s 9th-ranked judo team (Heo Mimi, Ahn Baul, Kim Ji-soo, Han Joo-yeop, Lee Jun-hwan, Kim Ha-yoon, Kim Min-jong) lost 1-4 to France in the quarterfinals of the mixed team judo event at the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the Champ de Mars Arena in Paris, France on the afternoon of the 3rd ( Korean time).
The mixed team judo event is a new event added to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021. Korea was eliminated early in its first match against Mongolia at the Tokyo Games.
In this Paris competition, Korea defeated Turkiye and advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time, but was blocked by the wall of France.
In the first match, Korea lost
to Joan Benjamin Gaba in the men’s 73kg class by foul after a close match that went all the way to the golden score. Then, in the women’s 70kg class, Kim Ji-soo won a one-point victory over Marie-Eve Guehi with a shoulder throw just 2 minutes and 16 seconds into the match, leveling the match.
However, in the 90kg class, Han Ju-yeop lost a one-point victory over Ngaye Hambu with a back throw, giving up the lead again. Then, in the women’s over-70kg class, Kim Ha-yoon lost half of the match to Roman Dicko with a back throw just 1 minute into the match, and then lost a match by allowing a press in a solidification. Korea, which was pushed to the edge with a score of 1-3, fought hard in the 5th match, with Lee Jun-hwan, the bronze medalist in the men’s 81kg class, fighting against Teddy Riner, the gold medalist in the over-100kg class, but was unable to overcome the weight difference and lost a game in a counterattack, leaving Korea with regret. Korea will play the loser’s bracket match against the loser of the Italy-Uzbekistan match. If they win this match, they will advance to the bronze medal match. 바카라사이트