Takato easy against Olympic Champion, Europe takes continental challenge

The ECCO Team Challenge in Tyumen was won by the team of Europe with 10:4 against Asia. 

Surprise already started in first fight when Russian Kuznetsova surprised current World Champion Munkhbat and brought first points for Europe.

"Wunderkid" Takato was just waiting to show his performance against Olympic Champion Arsen Galstian. I absolute domination against Russian he scored two times an yuko with smooth Ko-uchi-gari and it didn't took long time after to score an ippon. Nice smile on Takato's face as he was going out from the mat.

Chitu makes the difference against Hashimoto, while Zantaraia improved his head to head against Mukanov, now the score is 1-1.

In the U57kg clash, Monteiro of Portugal quickly caught Dorjsuren and ends the fight with shime-waza.

Elmont won against Khashbaataar, Abe was better than van Emden and Tchrikishvili was not good enough against extra motivated Imamov of Uzbekistan. Score is 5-3 for Europe.

Seong-Yeon Kim started to celebrate her victory against Vargas Koch too early, but the replay of the action showed that Kim threw German with "bear hug" which brings another shido for Kim of Korea. 

Liparteliani does it easy against Lee of Korea, Joo lost against Jeong. Grol won against Kurbonov (UZB), but it could cost him victory as he did begginer move during fight and trying to fix his bandage on his foot.

Polavder and Mikhaylin confirmed Europe's victory in the heavyweight's matches against their opponents. Nice uchi-mata by Mikhaylin.

The ECCO Challenge was broadcasted at the Eurosport as well. Great team event consisted of the Olympic and World medalists, the show that you definitely doesn't want to miss, unfortunately not even one French athlete in the team.