Joan-Benjamin Gaba 's first appearance at the Olympic Games will certainly not be forgotten! On Monday July 29, the 23-year-old judoka won a silver medal in judo in the -73 kg category. Another medal for the French delegation, bringing the total to 14 gold, silver and bronze medals at the time of writing.
In judo alone, after just 3 days of competition, France already has 5 medals to its credit: silver for Luka Mkheidze (-60 kg), bronze for Amandine Buchard (-52 kg), bronze for Shirine Boukli (-48 kg)... and now silver for Joan-Benjamin Gaba as well as bronze for Sarah-Léonie Cysique, also won today in the -57kg category!
After a flawless day in which he beat Georgia's Lasha Shavdatuashvili, Japan's Soichi Hashimoto and Moldova's Adil Osmanov in the semi-finals, the young French athlete was finally beaten at the Champ-de-Mars Arena byAzerbaijan's Hidayet Heydarov, none other than the reigning world champion.
No regrets for Joan-Benjamin Gaba, quite the contrary: this was a magnificent first step in the French judoka's Olympic career.
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