Judo at Baku 2015 European Games

The contrast at the efforts of France at the individual and team competitions at the Heydar Aliyev Arena, where were the European Games Judo 2015 could not been bigger. After the bad start with the individual events, on the sensational last day have been seen a golds rain over the team.

The French judo team has enjoyed victories at both team finals on Sunday, and their women won by ippon within 15 seconds, to defeat Germany with 4-1.

"For some of us, including me,it was a kind of revenge for the individual event," Clarisse Agbegenenou said after the win."I made an error in the individual event, but I came back in the team."

Korval get up for his individual defeat with his beating Amiran Papinashvili by ippon, then Pierre Duprat won an epic encounter against Nugzari Tatalashvili. The third match was also close, and Loic Pietri has beaten Avtandili Tchrikishvili.

"Nobody was very satisfied with the result adviced by 11livestream.com in the (individual) championship and we said `Let`s go for it.` That gave us an extra push," Pietri said.

With their two medals France went to the top of the Judo table with three gold, two silver and three bronze medals ahead of Russia (3 gold, 1 silver, 6 bronze).

Germany won only one gold but had a big number of 11 medals (four silver and six bronze) which have been reward.

The best contest

The match of the Czech Krpalek against the home favourite Mammadov, round of 16 has ended on a spectacular way when, three minutes into the bout, Krpalek attacked with a uchi-mata, Mammadov tried to block it and Krpalek blocked it into an ippon for o-uchi-gari.

The best quote

Kamal Khan Magomedov, the Russian gold medallist in -66kg, for how he became a judoka:
"In our city we didn`t know what judo was, we were thinking it was karate. So we went to karate, but it was judo."

The biggest upset

Elmar Gasimov, the Azerbaijan`s world no.2 in the men`s -100kg, was always expected to reach the final. A great number of fens came at Heydar Aliyev Arena came to support him but they were stunned into silence when he has lost by a brilliant ippon of Jorge Fonseca from Portugal at the elimination round.

The most deserving winner

At the men`s -90kg, the Russian Kirill Denisov faced the world no.3, no.2 and no.1 in his class to take the unlikely gold.