{"id":6244,"date":"2021-04-02T00:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2021-04-02T00:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T00:15:48","slug":"christa-deguchi-wins-all-canadian-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/christa-deguchi-wins-all-canadian-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Christa Deguchi Wins All-Canadian Final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After more than four minutes of overtime,\u00a0Christa Deguchi<\/strong>\u00a0beat\u00a0Jessica Klimkait<\/strong>\u00a0in what turned out to be an all-Canadian Under-57 kg final on Thursday at the Antalya Grand Slam in Turkey. Deguchi was awarded the gold medal, while Klimkait will go home with silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because Klimkait and Deguchi hold first and third place respectively in the world rankings for their weight class, a tight battle was expected, and that is exactly what they delivered. After four minutes of regulation time, the judokas had received two penalties each, and it was a third penalty to Klimkait four minutes and 18 seconds into overtime that finally decided the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a tough fight for both of us,\u201d noted Deguchi. \u201cThe referee gave Jessica the penalty, but it could have been me, so I was lucky. I learned from last week\u2019s mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the first half of the bout, Klimkait had some difficulty getting a good grip on her opponent, but she remained firmly on the offensive. However, she was unable to break through Deguchi\u2019s tough defenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI felt prepared and conditioned for this match, but it came down to me making an unnecessary attack at the end, which led to my last penalty,\u201d Klimkait analyzed. \u201cMy intention was to deneutralize the situation and attack, to turn it in my favour. I believe Christa predicted this, and was able to defend against it, ultimately leading to the penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her earlier rounds, Deguchi clinched two of her three victories by ippon, including her semi-final against Poland\u2019s Julia Kowalczyk, bronze medallist at the 2019 World Championships, where Deguchi was crowned world champion. Last weekend, Deguchi earned third place at the Tbilisi Grand Slam in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast week, I had done too much, so I got tired and made a big mistake in the semi-finals. This time, I was more focused and careful,\u201d said the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klimkait, of Whitby, Ontario, won all her earlier bouts on Thursday by ippon, the last of which was against China\u2019s Lu Tongjuan in the semi-final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m satisfied with some of the things I was able to accomplish in each fight. There are some things I can take away to work on at home, but at the end of the day, I wanted the result to be different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quebec\u2019s Julien Frascadore<\/strong>, the only male competing for Canada today, concluded his day with a 1-1 record. After defeating Cuba\u2019s Orlando Polanco by ippon, he was eliminated in the same fashion in the next round by Gregg Varey of the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard<\/strong> (-63 kg), Isabelle Harris<\/strong> (-63 kg), Arthur Margelidon<\/strong> (-73 kg), Antoine Bouchard<\/strong> (-73 kg) and \u00c9tienne Briand<\/strong> (-81 kg) will hit the tatamis in Antalya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After more than four minutes of overtime,\u00a0Christa Deguchi\u00a0beat\u00a0Jessica Klimkait\u00a0in what turned out to be an all-Canadian Under-57 kg final on Thursday at the Antalya Grand Slam in Turkey. Deguchi was awarded the gold medal, while Klimkait will go home with silver. Because Klimkait and Deguchi hold first and third place respectively in the world rankings(…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}