Israel’s mixed judo team wins bronze at world championships in Uzbekistan

Israel’s combined workforce received a bronze medal Thursday within the 2022 World Judo Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The workforce narrowly beat the Dutch nationwide workforce to safe the prize, inserting third within the senior combined groups class.

Blended rounds encompass a number of particular person matchups.

Israeli judoka Man Gurevitch first misplaced to Frank de Wit, giving the Netherlands a 1:0 lead.

Raz Hershko then introduced Israel to 1:1, however fellow workforce member Peter Paltchik misplaced to Michal Korrel, giving the Dutch workforce a 2:1 lead.

Timna Nelson Levy then beat Pleuni Cornelisse, as soon as once more bringing the nations to a tie.

Israel’s Raz Hershko (white) and France’s Julia Tolofua compete of their girls’s over 78 kg class bronze medal bout in the course of the 2022 World Judo Championships on the Humo Enviornment in Tashkent on October 12, 2022. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)

Victories by Ido Levine and Maya Goshen introduced the Jewish state the bronze with a 4:2 total victory.

Earlier that day, the workforce had competed and beat the Uzbekistan workforce in a 4:2 match in Israel’s favor.

Israel then beat South Korea 4:3 after Hershko received a tiebreaking match.

The workforce then misplaced to France with a rating of solely 4:1, leaving them to vie with the Netherlands for the third-place place.

Crew Japan took residence the competitors’s gold medal whereas France received silver.

Three members of this 12 months’s worldwide workforce — Hershko, Paltchik and Nelson-Levy — additionally represented Israel within the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021. There, in addition they helped the nation win bronze within the mixed-team competitors, contributing to the Jewish state’s profitable 4 medals in a single Olympics, the best tally within the nation’s historical past.

The 2022 judo championships had been initially scheduled to coincide with Yom Kippur, however they had been pushed again after Moshe Ponte, president of the Israel Judo Affiliation, requested the Worldwide Judo Federation delay the competitors.

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