We have the second award at the World Judo Championships in Baku! George Zantaraya won the bronze medal in the weight category up to 66 kg.
In the "comforting" encounters the Ukrainian defeated the silver medalist of the last year's world championship of Russian Mikhail Pulyaev and the bronze medalist of the 2017 World Cup, the European Championship-2018 Tala Flicker from Israel.
For Zantarai this is the sixth medal of the world championships. In 2009, the Ukrainian won the gold medal in Rotterdam, a year later in Tokyo - "silver", in Paris 2011, Rio de Janeiro 2013, Chelyabinsk-2014 and now Baku-2018 - "bronze".
Recall, a day earlier, Daria Bilodid won a historic gold medal. She also became the youngest world champion - at 17 years old.