Havana, December 4 (JIT).- Five Cubans bid farewell this weekend without medals at the Tokyo 2023 Judo Grand Slam.

Orlando Polanco (66 kg) defeated the Canadian Julien Frascadore by ippon in the second round, but in his second fight, at the height of the third round, he lost to the Brazilian Willian Lima, in the golden rule by hansoku- make after seven action reports.

Iván Felipe Silva (90 kg) unexpectedly lost to German Eduard Tripper by waza-ari in his first fight, but he could not drag him and was excluded from the medal table.

The same thing happened with world champion Andy Granda (+100 kg), who defeated Taipei representative Chen Guan-Heng by hansoku-make, but succumbed in the third round to Georgian Levanto Matiashvili by ippon, who failed to do so. train him to fight for medals.

Maylín del Toro (63 kg) fell in her first performance, by ippon against young local Mizuki Takaki, after a fight that lasted more than seven minutes.

A waza-ari from the local team deprived her of the continuation of the competition after her fall against the Brazilian Katleyn Quadros.

The young Lianet Cardona (78 kg) faced the experienced Japanese Mami Umeki, world champion in Astana 2015, in the first round. She suffered a defeat by ippon, thus abandoning the competition, as Umeki later failed against the Italian Giorgia Stangherlin.

Cuba found itself without a place on the medal table in a competition that hosted 506 competitors from 84 countries. Japan won with seven gold, five silver and four bronze medals.

Five other countries have won at least one title: the Republic of Korea, Brazil, Azerbaijan, the Netherlands and Canada. In total, 19 won a medal.