Brazil Closes the Individual Competition of the World Junior Championship with Three Medals

On Sunday, there were four Brazilians who represented the country in the half-heavyweight and heavyweight categories.

Brazil ended its participation in the individual competition of this year’s World Junior Championship held in Fort Lauderdale with three medals: gold in the half-middleweight category won by Rafael Macedo; silver awarded to the extra-lightweight athlete Larissa Farias; and bronze to the half-lightweight Ricardo Santos Junior. On Sunday, there were four Brazilian representatives in the half-heavyweight and heavyweight categories but did not reach the contention for medals.

The first Brazilian to fight was the half-heavyweight Gabriel Souza and he was defeated by the Japanese Aaron Wolf by ippon. The young João Marcos Cesarino, only 17 years old, felt the weight of the first fight and was thrown for ippon by the South-Korean Minyoung Choi.

Brazil was represented by two female athletes in the heavyweight category. Camila Gebara Nogueira  from  South Mato Grosso had to face a quarry in her first fight and did not resist to the Japanese Sarah Asahina, being defeated by ippon in the first minute of fighting. The same happened to Sibilla Faccholli. The athlete from São Paulo, bronze medalist at the last World Junior Championship, had a very tough opponent in the first fight as well, the Cuban Gusmary Garcia Savigne, the current junior world champion, and ended up by being defeated by an ippon with just over a minute of fight.

On Sunday schedules are the same. The qualifiers begin at noon and the final block at 7 pm.