Rafaela Silva beat French Priscila Gneto, eighth in the world rankings and is now closer than ever to a spot in the World Championship
Rafela Silva is a bronze medalist at the Grand Slam of Judo in Tbilisi, Georgia! The Brazilian won the feat this Friday, 3, after beating the French Priscila Gnetoeighth in the world ranking, applying a nice blow to the golden score, a kind of extra time, after the fight ended in a tie in regulation time.
It is worth noting that this achievement was the most important in Rafaela Silva’s career since she returned to fight at the end of last year, after being punished for doping. In this Friday’s dispute, Rafaela made her debut with a victory against Leyla Omidovafrom Turkmenistan, but ended up losing in the sequence to the Korean Mimi Hu.
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Playing the repechage, defeated Sevara Nishanbayeva, from Kazakhstan, to reach the bronze medal dispute and defeat Frenchwoman Priscilla Gneto, eighth in the world ranking. Before the event, Rafaela was occupying the 18th place in the ranking, and now with this victory she should approach the Top 10 of the classification.
It is worth remembering that the Georgian Grand Slam distributes 1000 points for the champion in the world rankings, plus 700 for the second place and finally 500 for the two bronze medalists. After that, the most important event of the year for her will be in October, in Uzbekistan, with the World Championships.
In addition to giving confidence and the bronze medal, this Friday’s victory meant that Rafaela Silva could get even closer to the spot to be in the main competition of the modality. The call-up will only be made in September, and until then the judoka still has time to improve to reach an even better level.
the doping case
Taking the Olympic medal in 2016, Rafaela Silva was caught in the anti-doping test in 2019, having to stay away from the mats for two years. The judoka returned at the end of last year after serving all the punishment, and since then she has competed in seven World Tour tournaments, winning a gold in Grand Prix and a bronze in the Pan-American Championship.
Source: sportbuzz
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