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February 27, 2006

Williams-Murray Drops First Match at Hamburg Super World Cup

Athens Olympian Taraje Williams-Murray (Bronx, N.Y./NYAC/Jamie Towers/Spartak Judo/66kg), the lone American competing in the Hamburg Super World Cup, Feb. 25-26 in Hamburg, Germany, drew a bye for his first round of competition, but lost his first match to Ahmed Ould Said by ippon.

Ould Said lost his next match, eliminating both himself and Williams-Murray from the repechage rounds.

Complete results are as follows:

Men’s 60kg

1. Tatsuaki Egusa (JPN)

2. Miguel Albarracin (ARG)

3. Dimitri Dragin (FRA)

3. Gal Yekutiel (ISR)

5. Cemal Oguz (TUR)

5. Nam-Suk Cho (KOR)

7. Lasha Tvildiani (GE)

7. Tengis Tsagaanbaatar (MGL)

Men’s 66kg

1. Yordanis Arencibia (CUB)

2. Masato Uchishiba (JPN)

3. Armen Nazaryan (ARM)

3. Miklos Ungvari (HUN)

5. Leandro Cunha (BRA)

5. Oscar Penas (ESP)

7. Milos Mijalkovic (SCG)

7. Dex Elmont (NED)

Also Competed: Taraje Williams-Murray (Brooklyn, N.Y./NYAC/Jamie Towers/Spartak Sports Club), 0-1.

Men’s 73kg

1. Bryan van Dijk (NED)

2. Rasul Bokiev (TJK)

3. Henry Schoeman (NED)

3. Kioshi Uematsu (ESP)

5. Yusuke Kanamaru (JPN)

5. Dirk van Tichelt (BEL)

7. Jae-Bum Kim (KOR)

7. Claudiu Bastea (ROM)

Men’s 81kg

1. Flavio Canto (BRA)

2. Shinya Yoshinaga (JPN)

3. Borroto Cardenas (CUB)

3. Robert Krawczyk (POL)

5. Antonio Ciano (ITA)

5. Saba Gavashelishvili (GEO)

7. Tijke van de Loo (NED)

7. Vincent Massimino (FRA)

Men’s 90kg

1. Roberto Meloni (ITA)

2. Yuta Yazaki (JPN)

3. David Alarza (ESP)

3. Maxim Rakov (KAZ)

5. Eduardo Costa (ARG)

5. Robert Dumke (GER)

7. Alon Sason (ISR)

7. Robert Zimmerman (GER)

Men’s 100kg

1. Kwang-Sun Yoo (KOR)

2. Dimitri Beline (RUS)

3. Benjamin Behrla (GER)

3. Franz Birkfellner (AUT)

5. Oreidis Despaigne (CUB)

5. Askhab Korstoev (RUS)

7. Marcel Jamet (GER)

7. Benjamin van Leeuwaarde (NED)

Men’s +100kg

1. Yasuyuki Muneta (JPN)

2. Alexander Mikhaylin (RUS)

3. Janusz Wojnarowicz (POL)

3. Andreas Toelzer (GER)

5. Gregorz Eitel (POL)

5. Oscar Bryson (CUB)

7. Adiljian Tulendibaev (UZB)

7. Paolo Bianchessi (ITA)

Women’s 48kg

1. Young-Ran Kim (KOR)

2. Yanet Bermoy (CUB)

3. Michaela Baschin (GER)

3. Kayo Kitada (JPN)

5. Laetitia Payet (FRA)

5. Julia Kriesten (GER)

7. Severine Pesch (GER)

7. Isabel Latulippe (CAN)

Women’s 52kg

1. Yuka Nishida (JPN)

2. Kyung Ok Kim (KOR)

3. Ramirez Calderon (CUB)

3. Melanie Lierka (GER)

5. Junjie Shi (SHN)

5. Marine Richard (FRA)

7. Sanna Askeloef (SWE)

7. Marie Muller (GER)

Women’s 57kg

1. Sabrina Filzmoser (AUT)

2. Barbara Harel (FRA)

3. Yvonne Boenisch (GER)

3. Nae Udaka (JPN)

5. Marien Hein (GER)

5. Karoline Kubatzki (GER)

7. Valentina Aloisi (ITA)

7. Sin Young Kang (KOR)

Women’s 63kg

1. Ayumi Tanimoto (JPN)

2. Urska Zolnir (SLO)

3. Danielle Vriezema (NED)

3. Ylenia Scapin (ITA)

5. E. Willeboordse (NED)

5. Ja Young Kong (KOR)

7. Christina Marzok (GER)

7. Faith Pitman (GBR)

Women’s 70kg

1. Heidi Wollert (GER)

2. Asuka Oka (JPN)

3. Annett Boehm (GER)

3. Catherine Roberge (CAN)

5. Anne Laure Poli (FRA)

5. Gemma Gibbons (GBR)

7. Yelennis Castillo (CUB)

7. Natalia Pichuzhkina (RUS)

Women’s 78kg

1. Vera Moskalyuk (RUS)

2. Jenny Karl (GER)

3. So-Yeon Lee (KOR)

3. Kumiko Horie (JPN)

5. Michelle Rogers

5. Claudia Zwiers (NED)

7. Yurisel Labourde (CUB)

7. Yanchun Zhang (CHN)

Women’s +78kg

1. Lucija Polauder (SLO)

2. Tea Donguzashvili (RUS)

3. Sandra Koeppen (GER)

3. Maki Tsukada (JPN)

5. Rebecca Ramanich (FRA)

5. Katrin Beinroth (GER)

7. Verena Birndorfer (GER)

7. Simone Callendar (GBR)