The Portuguese judoka Jorge Fonseca defends the 2019 and 2021 world titles on Tuesday with a “high risk” fight, against a former world champion and Olympic medalist.
In the star of Jorge Fonseca in the World, in Tashkent, or Portuguese, leader of the world ‘ranking’ of -100 kg, he will face a former champion of -90 kg, who in 2021 changed Cuba to Rome, going on to compete no more weight up.
Also for Cuba, Asley Gonzaléz was world champion in 2013 and bronze medal in 2011, still in the previous weight, and in the London 2012 Olympic Games he was runner-up, in the period in which he obtained the best results.
For Jorge Fonseca it is a very difficult fight to open his participation, taking into account that Gonzaléz has recently risen in category and is part of the 25th position in the ‘ranking’, despite having already been silver in 2021 at the Paris Grand Slam.
Fonseca has already recognized that the World Cups are one of the competitions that he likes to play the most, but he discards the pressure of defending a title and in his case two in a row, after in 2019 he became the first Portuguese judoka to be world champion .
In the Humo Arena, a pavilion with capacity for 12,500 people and that every day has more than half a full room, the judoka is the sixth to enter action on tatami 1, with eliminations scheduled for 10:00 local time (06: 00h). Lisbon).
In the World Championships, which are being held since Thursday, Portugal has already had six of the eight registered judokas in action, in a ‘campaign’ in which the bronze medal of Bárbara Timo stands out, in -63 kg.
Source: TSF
