Ukrainian Marina Chernyak continues to collect medals at stages of the elite Grand Prix series. After "silver" in Tbilisi Chernyak again became the second. This time the stage passed in the Turkish Samsun, on the bank of the Black Sea. In weight category to 48 kg Chernyak held four meetings and I won three of them. Russian Irina Dolgova stopped the Ukrainian only, in the final it celebrated a victory the ippony.

Also Stanislav Bondarenko in category over 100 kg got an award in Samsun. He won bronze. Vladimir Soroka (-73 kg) and Vadim Sinyavsky (-90 kg) were close to awards. Both of them to a medal still had a step, but unfortunately they couldn't make it and as a result the fifth.

As a whole in Samsun Ukraine was presented by 15 athletes.