Yuri Fazi

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Juri Fazi (born July 3, 1961 in Pesaro ) is a former Italian judoka .

Athletic career

The 1.82 m tall Fazi competed internationally mostly in the light heavyweight division, the weight class up to 95 kilograms. At Italian championships he won the middleweight division in 1979, 1983, 1984 and 1985, and in 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990 he won the light heavyweight division.

In 1979 and 1980 he won bronze in the light heavyweight division at the European Junior Championships. In 1983 he won the Mediterranean Games in Casablanca with a final victory over the Tunisian Abdel Denoussi . At the World Championships in Moscow in 1983 Fazi was eliminated in his first fight against the Romanian Costel Naftica .

The following year at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Fazi won his first fight against the Austrian Robert Köstenberger after 3:29 minutes, in the quarterfinals he was defeated by the Brazilian Douglas Vieira with a small score (Yuko). In the hope round he defeated the Senegalese Abdul Daffé after 24 seconds, but lost in the battle for bronze against the Ippon Bjarni Friðriksson by Ippon after 4:45 minutes. Fazi was fifth in the Olympics.

1985 Fazi retired at the World Championships in Seoul in the quarter-finals against the Dutchman Ben Spijkers . In 1987 Fazi won bronze at the Mediterranean Games, at the World Championships in Essen he lost to Koba Kurtanidze from the Soviet Union in his opening match .

At his second Olympic participation in 1988 in Seoul he won against the Bulgarian Marko Walew in a full-time fight with Waza-Ari, in the round of 16 he defeated the Canadian Joseph Meli with a small score (Koka). Then he was defeated by the Brazilian Aurélio Miguel with a small penalty (Chui). In the hope round he was eliminated against the Briton Dennis Stewart with a Yuko rating and finished seventh.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Career overview at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ 1983 Mediterranean Games at judoinside.com
  3. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 955
  5. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 108
personal data
SURNAME Fazi, Juri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian judoka
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Pesaro