With three medals finished the Grand Prix in the Turkish city of Samsun the Ukrainian judoists. In the second day of prestigious tournament with a prize fund in $100 000 silver was won by Vitaly Dudchik (81 kg, Dnepropetrovsk regional), and bronze Dmitry Luchin (Kiev-Kirovograd regional).

Dudchik began tournament with a victory an assessment a vase-ari over Frenchman Alain Schmidt, then finished ahead of schedule fights with Italian Massimiliano Karollo and the Austrian of Marseille of Ott. Vitaly thanks to an assessment a vase-ari passed Russian Ivan Vorobev in a semi-final. And here in a decisive duel conceded to purely young Frenchman Luis Pyetri.



Luchin in the two first rounds without problems dealt with the Turk Erdalem Bagachem. Having got advantage in two юко and one vase-ari, our wrestler passed Georgian Levan Zhorzholiani. However in the third meeting the Ukrainian could oppose nothing to the Egyptian to Ramadan Darvisha and continued wrestling in "uteshilovka". There Dmitry with an assessment a vase-ari finished a meeting against Italian Domenico di Gvid. In bronze fight Vitaly Dubrova's ward left out of work the double bronze prize-winner of Olympic Games of Dutch Henk Grolla.



Let's remind that on Saturday in the first day of the Grand Prix Samsun the owner of gold became George Zantaraya (66 kg, Kiev – Zaporozhye regional). Thus, the national team of Ukraine collected a complete set of awards in Turkey.



A female half of team didn't manage to cause a stir on this start. The second day in a row of the Ukrainian remain with the fifth result. On Saturday Maria Buyek (52 kg) wasn't lucky, and today I missed chance to rise by a podium Donetsk judoist Victoria Turks (78 kg).



Following the results of the Grand Prix Samsun Ukraine was included into a quartet of the best in medal offset (1-1-1-2-2). Germany (1-4-1-1-1), France (2-0-4-2-4) and Russia (4-1-6-5-5) outstripped us only.



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