Dominic Ressel

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Dominic Ressel (born October 5, 1993 ) is a German judoka . He was runner-up at the European Championships in 2017.

Athletic career

Dominic Ressel has been fighting in the light middleweight division, the weight class up to 81 kilograms , since 2010 . In October 2013 he won a bronze medal at the U21 World Championships in Ljubljana. In 2014 a bronze medal followed at the U23 European Championships. After Ressel had finished third at the German championships from 2012 to 2014, he reached the finals for the first time in 2015 and finished second behind Alexander Wieczerzak . In May 2015 he was third at the Grand Slam tournament in Baku .

In 2016 Ressel won his first German championship title, and three more should follow by 2019. At the end of 2016 he reached the final at the Tokyo tournament and finished second behind the Japanese Takanori Nagase . At the 2017 European Championships in Warsaw, Ressel defeated the Bulgarian Iwajlo Iwanow in the quarter-finals and the Georgian Zebeda Rekhviashvili in the semi-finals , and in the final he was defeated by the Russian Alan Khubetsov . In 2018, Ressel won a bronze medal at the Grand Slam tournament in Düsseldorf . In July he won the Grand Prix tournament in Zagreb. At the 2018 World Championships in Baku, he defeated the Israeli Sagi Muki in the round of 16 and the Russian Khassan Chalmursajew in the quarter-finals . In the semifinals he was defeated by the Japanese Sōtarō Fujiwara , he lost the battle for bronze to Alexander Wieczerzak.

In February 2019, Ressel won the semifinals of the Grand Slam tournament in Paris against Chassan Chalmursajew and in the final against Sagi Muki. He was the first German winner in Paris since Ole Bischof 2012. Two weeks later, he finished third at the tournament in Dusseldorf after losing to Sōtarō Fujiwara in the semifinals. At the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo he was defeated by Belgian Matthias Casse in the quarter-finals and by Canadian Antoine Valois-Fortier in the round of hope , and Ressel finished seventh in the final.

Dominic Ressel's home club is TSV Kronshagen .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Championships 2015 at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Dominic Ressel books historic German victory news from February 10, 2019 at judoinside.com (accessed on September 25, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Ressel, Dominic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judoka
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1993