Paris Olympic Qualification to get underway in Mongolia

With these magical Tokyo recollections now 10 months previous, judo now turns its consideration to the 2024 Video games in Paris as qualification for the XXXIII (33^rd) Olympiad commences this weekend because the IJF World Tour heads to Mongolia for the Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam.

6 GB Judoka will compete; trying to get their Paris Olympic qualification marketing campaign off to a powerful begin within the Mongolian capital metropolis.

Friday 24^th

Lele Nairne would be the sole GB Judo competitor on the opening day. The -57kg judoka and 2018 European U23 Championship silver medallist will face 4^th seed Enkhriilen Lkhagvatogoo (MGL), who gained bronze on the Paris Grand Slam earlier this 12 months, in her opening spherical contest.

Saturday 25^th

Abu Dhabi Grand Slam bronze medallist Lachlan Moorhead competes for the primary time because the European Championships in Sofia. Moorhead has been drawn in opposition to Bekadil Shaimerdenov (KAZ) in Spherical 1.

Competing within the -73kg class is Daniel Powell who will face Ylham Kemalov (TKM) within the opening spherical.

Sunday 26^th

Rhys Thompson makes his second profession Grand Slam look alongside Harry Lovell-Hewitt, who competes for the primary time since March, within the -100kg class.

Thompson, who just lately joined the British Judo Nationwide Coaching Centre as a full-time athlete, will face 3x Grand Slam gold medallist, Kentaro Iida (JPN) in Spherical 2, following an opening-round bye.

Lovell-Hewitt will face Nyamkhuu Darikhuu (MGL) within the opening spherical.

Dubrovnik European Cup gold medallist, Jamal Petgrave has been drawn in opposition to Puntsagtseren Ganbaatar (MGL) within the opening spherical of the -90kg class.

Elsewhere this weekend, a small group from Bradley Stoke Judo Membership have travelled to Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Banja Luka Junior European Cup. Ethan Nairne will compete within the -73kg class, while Ryan Rijksen-Salman fights within the -90kg class. Nairne, who competes on Saturday, enters at 5^thseed while Rijksen-Salman, who fights on Sunday, is seeded 7^th.

Preliminary spherical motion in Mongolia will begin at 5:30 am (BST) on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Last Block is scheduled to begin at 10:00 (BST) on every day.

Motion in Bosnia will begin at 8:00 am (BST) on each Saturday and Sunday.

You possibly can watch all of the motion from the European Judo Cadet Championships LIVE on the British Judo Competitors Hub web page every day.