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\n By Euronews with IJF\n<\/p>\n
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\n 14\/10\/2025 – 7:02 GMT+2\n <\/p>\n
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It\u2019s the third and final day of the Lima 2025 Grand Prix in Peru, and the heavyweights were to deliver a spectacular finale to an unforgettable event.<\/p>\n
In -90kg Rafael MACEDO of Brazil met Murad FATIYEV of Azerbaijan. <\/p>\n
In a tightly contested battle, MACEDO found the armlock he needed to secure his victory, and gold medal.<\/p>\n
His medal was awarded by IJF Ambassador & IJF Medical Commission Chair, Dr Antonio CASTRO.<\/p>\n
Already a Grand Prix silver and bronze medalist, Metka LOBNIK of Slovenia had her sights set firmly on gold in the -78kg category. <\/p>\n
She completed her collection in style with some superb ground work, pinning her opponent for ippon.<\/p>\n
She was awarded her medal by IJF Sport Commission Member & 3 time World Champion, Ms Yuri ALVEAR.<\/p>\n
Leonardo Goncalves faced teammate Giovani Ferreira in the all Brazilian showdown at -100kg. With mutual respect but fierce determination, it was Ferreira who would take home the gold!<\/p>\n
The medals were awarded by IJF Vice President, Mr Carlos ZEGARRA.<\/p>\n
A +78kg final is familiar territory for Raz HERSHKO. With an early yuko score, HERSHKO held on throughout the contest to claim her gold medal.<\/p>\n
Israel Ambassador in Peru, His Excellency Mr Eran YUVAN was on hand to award the medals.<\/p>\n
In the +100kg final, Brazil\u2019s Rafael Buzacarini took on two-time Olympic champion Lukas Krpalek of Czechia. With the fight into golden score, Krpalek demonstrated why he is so dominant on the ground with a trademark transition into a hold down. <\/p>\n
Krpalek adding yet another gold to his impressive collection.<\/p>\n
He was awarded his medal by Peruvian Olympic Committee Vice President, Mr Manuel DEL CASTILLO.<\/p>\n
The third and final day of the Peru Grand Prix wrapped up an incredible first-ever Grand Prix event for the country. The heavyweights put on an incredible performance that brought the competition to a spectacular close. Thank you Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Euronews with IJF Published on 14\/10\/2025 – 7:02 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT It\u2019s the third and final day of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,52177,52179,52178,43,31991,2224,40,38,41,39,24697],"class_list":["post-73378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-judo","tag-lima","tag-martial-arts","tag-news","tag-peru","tag-sport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}