Beaten in the semi-finals of the Worlds this Thursday in Budapest, Romane Dicko consoled himself by later winning the bronze medal among the +78kg. This is the second medal in the competition for the French champion.
Romane Dicko (25) was able to re -mobilize. Stopped a little earlier at the gates of the Budapest judo World’s final final, by Kim Hayun, she who dreamed of climbing again on the highest step of the planetary podium, three years after her coronation in Tashkent (Ouzbékistan), her only world title before the start of these world championships, individually as in teams, but also her unique medal in competition, the French champion Nevertheless managed to get back into his tournament.
And it is with great seriousness that the Ile-de-France, beaten in the semi-finals by the South Korean when she had taken off in the fight (Editor’s note: she had led 3-1 before being overturned) was able to be dominating again to dictate her law in the match for third place in the 17-year-old Emma-Melis Aktas and thus win the bronze medal at the price of her young opponent Yoko then a waza-ari.
And four for the French team…
A nice share of consolation for Dicko, who finished this day which had everything to be catastrophic for her with her second career medal at the Worlds. The fourth for the French team after the gold medal obtained by Joan-Benjamin Gaba, the new phenomenon of French judo, among -73kg, who had never known a tricolor world champion, the one in the first in the history of the category there too) for Romain Valadier-Picard in 60kg and the bronze, already won by Sarah-Léonie Cysics (-57kg).
A podium that should not make us forget the bronze medalist of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games last summer, when she already had only one objective at the time: being Olympic champion, this new disappointment, this time at the Worlds.
