Gardoise Shirine Boukli won her third continental crown at the European Championships held in Montpellier, this Friday, November 3.
Shirine Boukli wins her third European crown. La Gardoise won in the final of the continental competition against the Portuguese Catarina Costa.
A welcome title after the silver medal at the World Championships in Doha last May and nine months before the Olympic Games in Paris.
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From the start of the fight, the Frenchwoman managed to push past the Portuguese. A waza-ari quickly allowed her to take the advantage but the Portuguese responded blow for blow.
Then, after 1’26” passed in the golden score, the Gardoise managed a second waza-ari to overthrow Costa. And win a third European coronation!
“It’s wonderful to do this in front of my audience, my family. I want to go and give them a hug,” she declared on the microphone of La Chaîne L’Equipe following her exit from the tatami mats. .
The Frenchwoman, originally from Aramon, a few dozen kilometers from Montpellier, won her four fights of the day with great mastery and confirms her status as French number one in the -48 kg category.