2023-05-13 13:19:43
Teddy Riner joins the quarter-finals. GONZALO SOURCES
The French beat the Mongolian Odkhuu Tsetsentsengel this Saturday in the round of 16 of the Doha World Championships with a golden score.
Teddy Riner, back at the Worlds after a six-year absence, qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Judo Championships on Saturday in Doha.
The French won on penalties against the Mongol Tsetsentsengel Odkhuu, ranked 4th in the world in the +100 kg category and winner in February of the Grand Slam in Tel Aviv. Riner was more offensive than in his first fights but was forced into extra time and had to work for more than seven minutes.
The Frenchman not being seeded, he had to go through a first round against the Romanian Vladut Simionescu, 25th in the world. After a sluggish start to the fight during which the two judokas received two penalties, Riner sent his opponent to the ground at the edge of the mat 1 min 47 sec from the end of regulation time. In the second round, he dominated the Polish Kacper Szczurowski, sanctioned with three penalties after 3 min 12 sec.
In the quarter-final stands before him the impressive Japanese Tasturu Saito, 1.91 m for 165 kilos and vice-world champion. Riner, ten-time world champion and double Olympic individual champion, comes to Qatar with the desire to test himself in contact with the best judokas one year from the Paris Olympics, his main objective.
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