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November 30, 2007
Korea Cup Day 1 Results
The following are the results from the first day of competition at the Korea Cup on Friday in Jeju.
Travis Stevens (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo
National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center) won his first match
in the 81kg division against Chi-Hang Au
(HKG) by a pair of waza-aris (half-point each), but lost in the
quarter-finals to 2004 Junior World Champion Jae-Bum Kim (KOR). Stevens
and Kim went into Golden Score (overtime), but Kim won the match by a yuko
(quarter-point), throwing Stevens with an o uchi gari (major outer leg throw).
Kim
would go on to win the gold medal, but Stevens lost by a waza-ari in the
repechage to six-time World Cup medalist Antonio
Ciano (ITA) who would go on to win the bronze.
Four-time
Pan Am medalist Sayaka Matsumoto (El
Cerrito, Calif. / NYAC / East Bay Judo Institute) was thrown with an
uchimata (inner thigh throw) for a yuko score by 2006 Asian Games medalist Kelbet
Nurgazina (KAZ) in her first match of the 48kg division. Nurgazina lost in the next round, eliminating Matsumoto.
Derek Alef
(Santa
Barbara,
Calif.
/
Santa Ynez Judo / +100kg) lost both of his matches by ippon, dropping his first
to Youhei Takai (JPN), a 2005 World medalist in the open
division, and his second to Sung-Won Choi (KOR).
Complete
results are as follows:
Women’s 48kg
1. Yanet Bermoy (CUB)
2. U. Baasankhuu (MGL)
3. Ok-Ja Choi (KOR)
3. Young-Ran Kim (KOR)
5. Jung-Yeon Jung (KOR)
5. Yumi Asaka (JPN)
7. Kelbet Nurgazina (KAZ)
7. Yin Lui Wing (HKG)
Also Competed: Sayaka Matsumoto (El Cerrito, Calif. / NYAC / East Bay Judo Institute), 0-1
Women’s 52kg
1. Miki Tsumura (JPN)
2. Bundmaa Munkhbaatar (MGL)
3. Susel Castellanos (CUB)
3. Yu-Ra Kang (KOR)
5. Kyung-Ok Kim (KOR)
5. Dan-Bi Hong (KOR)
7. Kelly Fong (AUS)
7. Alina Ten (KAZ)
Women’s 57kg
1. Yurisleidys Lupetey (CUB)
2. Mi-Young Yang (KOR)
3. Hye-Mi Jung (KOR)
3. Mina Nonaka (JPN)
5. Gulzat Uralbayeva (KAZ)
5. Chen-Ling Lien (TPE)
7. Kate Bell (AUS)
7. Joliane Melancon (CAN)
Men’s 81kg
1. Jae-Bum Kim (KOR)
2. Shin Norikane (JPN)
3. Antonio Ciano (ITA)
3. Young-Woo Kwon (KOR)
5. Min-Sun Aea (KOR)
5. Giovanni Carollo (SMR)
7. H. Malekmohammadi (IRI)
7. Almas Atayev (KAZ)
Also Competed: Travis Stevens (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center), 1-2
Men’s 90kg
1. Tatsuki Masubuchi (JPN)
2. Maxim Rakov (KAZ)
3. Kyu-Won Lee (KOR)
3. Hee-Tae Hwang (KOR)
5. Enkhbat Erdenebileg (MGL)
5. Russell David Dill (NZL)
7. Daniel Kelly (AUS)
7. Chang-Dong Lee (KOR)
Men’s 100kg
1. Kwang-Sun Yoo (KOR)
2. Kwang-Woo Nam (KOR)
3. Oreidis Despaigne (CUB)
3. Ehsan Rajabi (IRI)
5. Keith Morgan (CAN)
5. Tuvshinbayar Naidan (MGL)
7. Tomoki Takeya (JPN)
7. Jung-Hoon Kim (KOR)
Men’s +100kg
1. Youhei Takai (JPN)
2. Soo-Hawn Kim (KOR)
3. Saeed Khosravinejad (IRI)
3. Oscar Braison (CUB)
5. Fei Wang (CHN)
5. Yerbulat Yussupov (KAZ)
7. Ricardo Blas Jr. (GUM)
7. Sung-Won Choi (KOR)
Also Competed: Derek Alef (Santa Barbara, Calif. / Santa Ynez Judo), 0-2
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