The highlight however was her victory over Meltem DINDAR from Turkey in Golden Score. Four successful games led Theodorakis, the athlete that competed under her recently adopted Austrian flag in U23, to the gold medal. Three years after the 7th place in the European Cadet Championships U18, that was also held in Ano Liosia, Asimina THEODORAKIS won the first place in the -57kg category. Bilal CILOGLU ranked first in the Cadet European Judo Championships 2015, third in the Junior European Judo Championships 2015 and fifth in the World Championships Cadets 2015. Irem KORKMAZ on the other hand won the bronze medal in World Championships Cadets 2015 and silver in Junior European Championships 2016. Melisa CAKMAKLI, who also ranked first in the respective 2015 event in category -44kg has also won 3 medals in great tournaments since she won the third place in Juniors World Championships 2014, second in European Junior Championships 2015 and European Junior Championships 2014. We are glad to participate in this important event under the name of Ilias Iliadis, an athlete that not only we as coaches but our athletes as well admire”. Our aim is to hit the top in all categories by the end of the tournament. Our country also offers us favourable preparation conditions which enables us to have a strong presence in world judo. Winning medals in all categories shows that we do a great job and the secret is nothing more than hard work and training. “We are very satisfied with the performance of our athletes, both men and women, and results prove that. National coaches Mustafa KALAYCI (women) and Oktay AYAZ (men) stated: More specifically Turkish athletes won 7 gold medals, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals while it also had presence in the fourth and fifth places. Turkey did secure its first place to the 9th Iliadis Cup even from the first day of the tournament. It is worth mentioning that only 6 countries had a presence in today’s 7 finals (-44kg category was played as ”Round Robin”) and Turkey was present in all with one or even two athletes.
Indeed, the superiority and ascendancy of athletes from the neighboring country was such that Turkey’s national anthem was played in seven out of the eight ceremonies of the first date of the 9th Iliadis Cup.
The final of the premiere of the Junior European Judo Cup Athens 2017 was marked by the playing - for the first time- of the National Anthem of Turkey at the -44kg women category medal ceremony.
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