Brazil had a good participation in the Grand Slam in Budapest and finished the competition with three medals. Guilherme Schmidt (under 81kg) took the gold, Raffaella Silva (under 57kg) won the silver, and Mayra Aguiar (under 78kg) won the bronze. Thus, the Brazilian national team finished third in the overall picture of the weekend.
This Sunday, at the Grand Slam finale, Mayra Aguiar secured her place on the podium by defeating Britain’s Emma Reed. Previously, the Brazilian had overtaken Venezuelan Karen Leon in the quarter-finals, but lost to Italian Alice Belandi in the semi-finals.
It’s BroOOOOOOONZE! 🥉🥋
It’s by Mayra Aguiar, at the Grand Slam in Budapest ðŸ‡ðŸ‡º
Beat Emma Reed 🇬🇧 in a medal dispute and another podium in the competition! pic.twitter.com/u4xLkqF2bf
– Team Brazil (timebrasil) 10 July 2022
On Saturday, there were two medals for Brazil. Guilherme Schmidt’s golden campaign began with Eppon’s victory over German Tim Gramkow. Then he passed by Askerby Gerbekov from Bahrain, François Gauthier Drapeau from Canada, Fidat Albayrak from Turkey, and in the decision, Saeed Mollaei from Azerbaijan, the current Olympic runner-up.
previously Rafaela Silva won her 13th Grand Slam medal. Also on Saturday, the Olympic judo champion made his Rio 2016 debut by defeating Czech Vera Zimanova. Then she beat Serbian Marika Perisic, Britain’s Lily Nairn and Cuban Arnez Odilin Garcia. In the decision, defeating the Japanese Haruka Funakobo.
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