Shirine Boukli (-48 kg) won the Olympic bronze medal this Saturday, March 27 at the Arena Champ-de-Mars, after winning against the Spanish Laura Martinez Abelenda, beaten in the semi-finals by the Mongolian Baasankhuu Bavuudorj. Shirine Boukli is the first French medalist at these Olympic Games on home soil.
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The 25-year-old, who was eliminated in the first round of the Tokyo 2021 Olympic tournament, beat Spain’s Laura Martinez in overtime in the match for one of the two bronze medals.
Having brilliantly reached the quarter-finals, Shirine Boukli was beaten by ippon by the big Japanese favourite Tatsumi Tsunoda, triple world champion (2021, 2022, 2023) and undefeated since 2021. But this defeat gave her the right to a repechage fight, against the world number one Scutto, also beaten in the quarter-finals. It was then necessary to dismiss the Spaniard Laura Martinez to obtain this bronze medal. In the extension of a bitter fight, Shirine Boukli obtained the decisive advantage on a decision of the video referee.
” It is the culmination of a long work, at home we needed a medal. The public pushed me, it was magnificent “, commented the Frenchwoman on France 2. She, who comes from a family passionate about judo, has shown the way to all her compatriots who are involved in these 2024 Olympic Games.
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