2023-11-04 17:04:29
By GF
Published 26 minutes ago, Updated now
Clarisse Agbegnenou will not be European champion this year. SYLVAIN THOMAS / AFP
The double Olympic champion was eliminated by Kosovar Laura Fazliu before failing in the repechage.
A disillusionment for French judo and Clarisse Agbégnénou. Nine months before the Paris Olympic Games, the Frenchwoman lost in the quarter-finals of the European Championships in Montpellier, beaten by Kosovar Laura Fazliu who made the difference with a waza-ari in the golden score.
Double Olympic champion -63 kg and big favorite in the tournament, Agbégnénou hoped to make up for it in the repechage at home but a defeat awaited her a few minutes after this immense disappointment. The Rennaise lost a second time in a row this Saturday, against the Hungarian Szofi Ozbas at the end of extra time. The hope of consoling himself with a bronze medal was shattered.
Six-time world champion and five-time European champion, Clarisse Agbégnénou had already shown worrying signs of feverishness before her elimination in the quarter-final by being pushed to her limits by the Finnish Kanerva, finally dismissed at the last minute in the golden score.
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