Athletes Arrive at BJC for Training for the World Cadet Championship
The ten convoked athletes stay at this place by next Monday (05/08) when they board to the United States
This Thursday, August the 1st, the training for the World Cadet Championship began. The competition will be held from August the 8th to August 11th in Miami, the United States. The ten athletes convoked by the coaching committee will practice in the morning on the dojo from the headquarters of the Brazilian Judo Confederation localized in the International Airport from Rio de Janeiro; in the afternoon they will train at gyms from the city.
The representatives of Brazil in the World Championship will be the following judokas: Kainan Pires (50kg/SP), Rodrigo Lopes (60kg/RJ), José Basile (73kg/SP), Hugo Praxedes (+90 kg/SP), Juliana Rodrigues (40kg /ES), Thais Kondo (44kg/PR), Layana Colman (52kg/MS), Gabriela Bittencourt (57kg/SP), Aine Schmidt (70kg/SP) and Ellen Furtado (+70 kg/SP).
\"I have given my best in every training since I lost the World Championship from 2011. I am very focused and concentrated on my goal. I\'m sure this time it will be all right, \"said Aine, who participated in the World competition from 2011, only 15 years old; she was defeated in the first fight by the Kazakh opponent, Mariya Cherniyenko.
Among the summoned athletes, eight of them will be head-keys in the tournament. Kainan Pires, Rodrigo Lopes, Hugo Praxedes, Juliana Rodrigues, Thais Kondo, Layana Colman, Gabriela Bittencourt and Ellen Furtado were last month the Pan-American champions in Buenos Aires and they consequently granted a less difficult path to the podium.
\"This period intends to isolate them from the daily problems and make them even more focused on the competition. I believe we are leading a team which is very strong, homogeneous, and I have no doubt that we come back from the United States with medals, \"said Kenji Saito, the Performance Director of Cadet and Junior Teams.
Brazil has eight medals in World Cadet and Junior Championships. In Budapest in 2009, Flávia Gomes (57kg) won the gold; Matheus Machado (60kg) and Henry Silva (90kg) the silver, and Taina Nery (70kg) and Samantha Soares (+70 kg) the bronze. In the last edition of the tournament in Kiev in 2011, Tawany Silva (40kg) became the champion, whereas Nathália Mercadante (44kg) and Felipe Almeida (50kg) got the bronze.
