Women’s 48 kilogram 18th Asian Games Jakarta Palembang 2018

18th  Asian Games Jakarta

Palembang 2018

Korean judoka Wins gold In 

Women’s 48 kilogram

In

Asian Games 2018

Antara/Palembang/ Jakarta

Korean (KOR) judoka Bokyeong Jeong won the gold medal in the 2018 Asian Games women’s judo 48 kilogram held at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Jakarta, on Wednesday.

A 2014 Asian Games bronze medalist in Incheon, South Korea, Jeong defeated Ami Kondo from Japan with a waza-ari. Ami, a 2016 Rio Olimpiad bronze medalist had to settle for second place, while 2014 Asian Games gold medalist Urantsetseg Munkhbat (Mongolia) came third place along with Galbadrakh Otgontsetseg (Kazakhstan).

Indonesia’s judoka Shinta Dewi did not qualify for the round of 16 after she was defeated by Chinese judoka Junying Gao.

Meanwhile, in the final match of the women’s -52 kg class, Natsumi Tsunoda (Japan) won the gold medal after defeating Korean judoka Dasol Park.

The bronze medals fell to the hands of Thai judoka Kachakorn Warasiha and the DPR Korea’s Song Sim Rim, who defeated Gantsetseg Ganbold (Mongolia) and Gulnoza Ziyaeva (Uzbekistan) respectively.

In the women’s -52 kg class, Indonesian athlete Amanah Nur Istiqomah failed to qualify for the round of 16 after being eliminated by Dasol Park.