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Judo World Championships: Olek fights for gold

In the final, the 22-year-old from Hanover will face Italy’s Olympic champion Alice Bellandi.

Anna Monta Olek has reached the final of the Judo World Championships in Budapest and will fight for gold this evening. The 22-year-old from Hanover defeated Portugal’s Olympic bronze medalist Patrícia Sampaio in the semifinals of the 78 kg class and will now face Italy’s Olympic champion Alice Bellandi in the fight for the title.

Olek, who finished second at the European Championships in April after losing to Sampaio in the final, has thus secured silver and the greatest success of her career. If she wins the final, Olek will follow in the footsteps of Anna-Maria Wagner, who became world champion in the second-highest weight class for the second time in 2024.

For the German Judo Federation (DJB), this is already the third medal in Hungary after bronze for Miriam Butkereit and Mascha Ballhaus.

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