Day 1 at the 2023 IBSA Judo Grand Prix Portugal brought the decisions for the first medals at the Complexo Municipal dos Desportos in the city of Almada.

Brazil led the light weight categories with five medals and had its national anthem played at the opening medal ceremony for Elielton de Oliveira’s (J1-60 kg) gold medal. His countryman Harlley Arruda could have gotten the second gold medal, but the German Lennart Sass won by ippon in the final.

The most balanced final of the day came in the men’s J2 -60kg category between Anuar Sariyev (KAZ) and Nukri Migrijanashvili (GEO). Only after 5′ 47″ in the golden score and on the third shido for the Georgian judoka was it decided. The second gold medal for Kazakhstan came in the next category (J2 -73kg) for Olzhas Orazalyuly, this time by ippon in regular time.

Check out all the results from the first day of competition:

Day 1
Men
J1 -60kg
1st – Elielton de Oliveira (BRA)
2nd – Miguel Vieira (POR)
3rd Marcos Blanco (VEN)
3rd – Roberto Nunes da Paixão (BRA)

J1 -73kg
1st – Lennart Sass (GER)
2nd – Harlley Arruda (BRA)
3rd – Mamatibraim Suranov (KGZ)
3rd – Dong Dong Camanni (ITA)

J2 -60kg
1st – Anuar Sariyev (KAZ)
2nd – Nukri Migrijanashvili (GEO)
3rd – Luis Gavilan (ESP)
3rd – Min Jae Lee (KOR)

J2 -73kg
1st – Olzhas Orazalyuly (KAZ)
2nd – Nathan Petit (FRA)
3rd – Recep Ciftci (TUR)
3rd – Osvaldas Bareikis (LTU)

Women
J1 -48kg
1st – Khaiitkhon Kyzy (KGZ)
2nd – Ecem Cavdar (TUR)
3rd – Rosicleide de Andrade (BRA)

J2 -48kg
1st – Sandirne Martinet (FRA)
2nd – Yuliia Ivanytska (UKR)

J2 -57kg
1st – Inna Sych (UKR)
2nd – Marta Arce (ESP)
3rd – Lucia Araújo (BRA)
3rd – Liudmila Yakymchuk (UKR)

January 31 – Tuesday
1 pm (CET, local time -1)
Women
J1 -57kg | J1 -70kg | J1 +70kg | J2 -70kg | J2 +70kg
Men
J1 -90 kg | J1 +90kg | J2 -90kg | J2 +90kg
5 pm (CET, local time -1)
Final block and medal ceremony

All the competition can be followed at the live webpage in the IBSA website here.

Photo: JCMyro – Jorge Caseiro/IBSA