Timo Cavelius and Dominic Ressel are not fighting for placements at the Judo World Championships in Doha.
In the class up to 81 kg, Cavelius failed in the third round at the Japanese Olympic champion Takanori Nagase, for Ressel it was already over after the first fight against Victor Sterpu (Macedonia).
Cavelius first won against Adam Kopecky from the Czech Republic and ensured the first victory of a German World Cup starter in the men’s field. The 26-year-old also defeated the Brazilian Guilherme Schmidt before losing to Nagase.