After securing four gold medals yesterday, the Japanese were in rampant form again, led by Tachimoto and Nishiyamad.

They finished the tournament with a total of nine medals, six gold, a silver and two bronze. 

Three-time World Championship silver medallist Tachimoto threw a harai-goshi for ippon against Ukrainian Svitlana Iaromka to claim the win in the women's over 78 kilogram final.

European Championship silver medallist Larisa Ceric of Bosnia and Herzegovina took just 80 seconds to tie-up Belarusian Maryna Slutskaya with a koshi-jime to take bronze, while the other podium place went to Germany's Jasmin Kuelbs who overcame Iryna Kindzerska of Ukraine.

Kuelbs teammate Iljana Marzok reigned in the under 70kg class as she won her final against Croatia's Havana Grand Prix bronze medallist Barbara Matic.

The German judoka defeated teenage star Matic by ippon from an ouchi-gari after just 36 seconds.

France's Fanny Estelle Posvite and Japan's Karen Nunira secured the bronze medals with wins over China's Chen Fei and Germany's European Open silver medallist Szaundra Diedrich respectively.

The under 78kg title was won by The Netherlands' Marhinde Verkerk, who scored a victory over Slovenia's world number three Anamari Velensek.

Verkerk is ranked just one place higher than Velensek and their encounter was a close but scrappy affair with the Dutchwoman winning out by virtue of receiving fewer penalties for passivity.

Hungary's Abigel Joo was victorious in her bronze medal match by the same route as her opponent Louette Kanning, of France, incurred shido penalties for passivity much to the delight of the home crowd.

Awaza-ari from a harai-makikomi followed by a second from osaekomi-waza saw Britain's Natalie Powell defeat Coatia's Ivana Maranic for the other bronze.

Megumi Tachimoto (second from left) was the gold medal winner in the over 78kg category at the Papp Laszlo Sport Arena ©IJF



The second Japanese gold on the day was secured by a wazi-ari score as Nishiyamad proved the villain of the piece by defeating Hungary's rising young talent Krisztian Toth in the men's under 90kg final.

An injury to compatriot Guillaume Elmont handed bronze to The Netherlands' Noel Van 't End, while Slovakia's Milan Randl lost out to Russian Khusen Khalmurzaev, who secured the win by ippon from a harai-goshi with 17 seconds of the contest left.

The under 81kg final was an all-Russian affair with youngster Khasan Khalmurzaev coming out on top against the more experienced Sirazhudin Magomedov.

Both men traded shido penalties for passivity early on before Khalmurzaev forced his compatriot to tap out with a juji-gatame.

Paris Grand Slam bronze medallist Henk Grol of The Netherlands denied Japan a third gold on the day as he scored ippon with two minutes remaining from a tani-otoshi to overcome 23-year-old Ryunosuke  Haga in the under 100kg final.

Azerbaijan's Elmar Gasimov was victorious against Ukrainian Artem Bloshenko from yuko score, while Swede Martin Pacek denied Latvia's Jevgenijs Borodavko by scoring a yuko from a ouchi-gari in the bronze medal matches.

Dutchman Henk Grol (blue) halted the Japanese gold medal rush with victory over Ryunosuke Haga in the under 100kg final ©IJF



The men's over 100kg category was the last to be decided and the gold medal went to Georgian Adam Okruashvili who proved too strong for Marius Paskevicius of Lithuania, scoring a waza-ari from a yoko-shiho-gatame after five minutes to end the contest.

There was further Georgian success in the bronze medal matches as Levani Matiashvili denied the Hungarian crowd a last chance to salute a medal after defeating Barna Bor.

Russia's Andrey Volkov overcame Ukraine's European Open winner Stanislav Bondarenko to secure the other bronze.

Okruashvili  picked up the male judoka of the tournament award with Japan's Tachimoto awarded the female prize.

Georgia's Adam Okruashvili and Japan's Megumi Tachimoto awarded the best male and female awards at the Budapest Grand Prix ©IJF

Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar is due to be the next stop on the IJF World Judo Tour when it hosts the Grand Prix on from July 4 to 6.

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