Judoka Sanne van Dijke to European Championship final, Hilde Jager does not make it | Other sports

When Van Dijke, who already qualified for the final of the European Championship for the fifth time, decided the match, a loud cry of joy sounded through the hall in Bulgaria. At the Tokyo Olympics last summer, she lost in the semifinals to Polleres, who eventually won Olympic silver. Van Dijke took bronze in Tokyo.

The 26-year-old Van Dijke could have competed against Hilde Jager in the final, but she lost in the semi-final to Marie-Ève ​​Gahié from France. Jager now only has a chance at bronze. In the rematch, the Dutch will compete against Slovenian Anka Pogacnik, who lost to Van Dijke in the quarterfinals.

In the class up to 63 kilograms, Geke van den Berg lost in the rematch against the Israeli Gili Sharir. Joanne van Lieshout already lost in the first round in the same class. In the men’s class, Frank de Wit was eliminated early in the class up to 81 kilograms.

For judoka Frank de Wit, the European Judo Championships were over after just one match. The number 7 in the world lost in the class up to 81 kilograms in the golden score, the extension, from the Italian Giacomo Gamba, the global number 230. The low-ranked Gamba threw De Wit on his side after one and a half minutes in the golden score and that immediately marked the end of the game.

In the women’s class, debutante Joanne van Lieshout lost in the first round to the Romanian Florentina Ivanescu in the class up to 63 kilograms. Geke van den Berg won in the same class in her first match against Anastasiia Antipina from Ukraine. In the class up to 70 kilograms, reigning European champion Sanne van Dijke won in her first match against the Belgian Gabriella Willems. Hilde Jager defeated Jovana Buncic from Serbia in her first game in that class.

The European Judo Championships last until Sunday.