In order to encourage teamwork, the athletes from Junior TC take part in a friendly competition
The mixed teams were composed of men and women athletes from Brazil, Japan, France, Italy, Puerto Rico and the United States.
A great judo party. So can be defined the friendly event held on Friday afternoon, May 23rd, in the dojo set in Eco Hotel da Lagoa, 25km from Campo Grande. Most of the athletes who participated in the training camp - those who were feeling some kind of injury were spared - participated in a competition between mixed teams, both in gender and in nationality. Each team was composed of judokas from Brazil, Japan, France, Italy and Puerto Rico - the United States had only one athlete training. Unusual things happened, such as an Italian athlete giving instructions to a Brazilian one, a Brazilian encouraging an Italian when fighting against a Brazilian, a French singing songs in support for a Japanese and many celebrations, especially with the cries of war that had to be understood in six different languages.
"The aim of the competition was really having a party, encouraging teamwork without the pressure of a common competition. So we decided to put athletes of all countries in all teams, composing 15 member- teams of men and women, "said Kenji Saito, the manager of Junior and Cadet Teams.
It took nearly three hours of fifteen high-level fights by teams. The first team was composed of Jonathan Freitas (55kg), Larissa Farias (44kg), Gabriel Pinheiro (66kg), Astride Gneto (52kg), Matteo Piras (66kg), Sarah Harachi (57kg), Tamires Crude (57kg), Yuji Yamamoto (73kg), Erika Ferreira (63kg), Eduardo Santos (81kg), Aine Schmidt (70kg), Gustavo Assis (81kg), Thiago Chiodi (90kg), Samah Camara (78kg), Matheus Rocha (+100 kg), Rebecca Lopes (+78 kg) and Genta Tanaka (+100 kg).
The second team was composed of Yuri Lourenço (55kg), Carmine Di Loreto (60kg), Nathália Mercadante (44kg), José Basile (73kg), Jessica Pereira (52kg), Milena Pachi (52kg), Marcelo Fuzita (66kg), Flavia Gomes (57kg), Caio Brígida (73kg), Ana Paula Prates (63kg), Toshimasa Ogata (81kg), Marie-Eve Gahie (70kg), Tomoko Kinoshita (90kg), Gabriel Rusca (90kg), Mariana Braga (70kg), Dario Alves (100kg), Sibilla Faccholli (+78 kg) and João Marcos Cesarino (+100 kg).
The third team featured Elios Manzi (60kg), Eloise Combeau (48kg), Thelma Gomes (66kg), Layana Colman (52kg), Ana Paula Moraes (52kg), Luiz Miguel Rivera (73kg), Manoela Costa (57kg) Laury Posvite (57kg), Jun Toba (73kg), Danielle Karla Oliveira (63kg), José Basile (73kg), Melissa Heleine (70kg), Julian Linkoski (90kg), Carlos Carvalho (90kg), Karol Gimenes (78kg), Leonardo Robeiro (90kg), Tainã Nery (+78 kg) and Hugo Praxedes (+100 kg).
Finally, the fourth team was formed by Rodrigo Lopes (60kg), Maria Eduarda Gonçalves (48kg), Nathália Brigida (48kg), Norihito Isoda (66kg), Ana Paula Morais (52kg), Ashlyn White (52kg), Nicolas Santos (66kg), Amelie Guihur (52kg), Lincoln Neves (73kg), Aline Neves (63kg), Rafael Macedo (90kg), Mariana Veiga (70kg), Davide Pozzi (90kg), Julie Pierret (78kg), Gabriel Gouveia (100kg ), Camila Nogueira (+78 kg) and Adrian Gines (+100 kg).
