Full card for the Blues during the para-judo world championships held in Baku. While Jason Grandy won bronze in the +90kg category, Cyril Jonard and Hélios Latchoumanaya were crowned world champions, the first in the J1 category (blind athletes) in -90kg and the second in the athlete category. visually impaired, also in -90kg.
At 46, Cyril Jonard enters a little more into the history of his discipline. Because by dominating the Briton Daniel Powell thanks to two waza-ari, the Limougeaud, who was making his comeback after a long injury, won his tenth world title. A performance all the more exceptional as his previous coronation dates back to 2012, in Venezuela. And this tenth world title comes especially 27 years after his first coronation, in Miami, in 1995.
On course for 2024
Thanks to this coronation, Cyril Jonard has become the equal of Teddy Riner, the most successful judoka in the history of the Worlds with ten planetary crowns spread between 2007 and 2017.
20 world titles in one photo ????#francejudo pic.twitter.com/Dutc1oqYWI
— France winning (@lfqgagne) November 9, 2022
A change in regulations now separating the visually impaired from the blind has completely revived his career and he now hopes to offer himself in Paris, during the 2024 Games, a new Olympic title, twenty years after his coronation in Athens. “He had a fantastic day. At the edge of the mat, people were saying: ‘The king is back'”enjoyed with the Popular center, Patrick Lacombe, his trainer in Limoges.
