Smetov reached the final of Grand Prix!
Kazakhstan judoka Eldos Smetov (60 kg) reached the Grand Prix final, which started today in the Samsun City, Turkey (March 28-30).
Firstly one of the leaders of the national team won pool A, leaving behind Pavel Petrikov (Czech Republic), Denis Bilichenko (Ukraine) and Ganbold Munkhtur (Mongolia). In the semifinals he has beaten azerbaijani Ilgar Mushkiyev and in the final Smetov (on a photo in blue kimono) will face russian Beslan Mudranov.
As for the another lightweight Ashat Telmanov, the path to the semifinals of pool D was blocked by the austrian Ludwig Payshcher and he lost the chance to participate in small final by being defeated to russian Robert Mshvidobadze. In the group Ashat was better than Fabio Basile (Italy) and Yves Shemesh (Israel).
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