Henrique Silva Fights for Bronze at the World Junior Championship

The half middle-weight and middle-weight categories went to the mats of the Sports Hall Stozice from Ljubljana this Friday (25/10 ) in order to compete in the World Junior Competition. Brazil’s representative in the up-to-90kg category, Henry Silva (EC Pinheiros/SP), won his first three fights by ippon, each of them lasting less than two minutes. The Kazakh Samat Yessen was his opponent from the semifinals, and after three minutes of an exciting fight, with a yuko on each side and one wazari for the Kazakh judoka, the fight ended with an ippon applied by Yessen on the Brazilian athlete. In the fight for bronze, the Brazilian judoka will face the Tajik Komronshoh Ustopiriyon.

The other two Brazilians of the day did not reach the fight for medals. Jessica Santos (63kg , EC Pinheiros / SP ) won her first fight - against the Austrian Magdalena Krssakova - by ippon, but she ended up being defeated in the next confrontation - by the Greek Elisavet Teltsidou - by yuko. Gustavo Assis ( 81kg , Minas Tenis Clube / MG ) could not resist the Korean Jooyong Lim, who won the fight by wazari .

The final block starts at 1 p.m., Brazilian Summer Time Zone.