By Daniel Etchells

Hungary's Krisztian Toth narrowly got the better of The Netherlands' Noël Van 't End in the men's under 90kg category ©IJFHungary's Krisztian Toth followed up his Junior World Championships victory in style as the Abu Dhabi International Judo Federation (IJF) Grand Slam drew to a close at the FGB Arena today.

Toth, a silver medallist at this year's World Championships, defeated The Netherlands' Noël Van 't End in the men's under 90 kilogram final, beginning well by launching a first drop-seoi-nage after less than 30 seconds.

This was counter attacked by Van 't End for no score, but the Hungarian continued with a wave of attacks, with his Dutch opponent, who was penalised with two shidos, having no chance to hit back.

That said, only a penalty separated the pair at the end of an intriguing encounter, as Toth won the gold medal. 

Switzerland's Ciril Grossklaus was victorious against Azerbaijan's Mammadali Mehdiyev in the second bronze medal match after Russia's Kirill Voprosov had defeated Lithuania's Karolis Bauza.

The men's under 100kg final saw Germany's Olympic bronze medallist Dimitri Peters beat compatriot and World Championship bronze medallist Karl-Richard Frey.

In a tight contest, Peters produced his deciding effort with a tremendous ippon-o-soto-gari combination, which totally penetrated Frey's defence for a waza-ari, followed by a juji-gatame for ippon.

Algeria's Lyes Bouyakoub overcame Azerbaijan's Elmar Gasimov in the first bronze medal match before France's Cyrille Maret secured his place on the podium with victory over Belgium's Toma Nikiforov.

Dimitri Peters (centre, left) claimed the gold medal in the men's under 100kg category ©IJFDimitri Peters (centre, left) claimed the gold medal in the men's under 100kg category ©IJF



There was an all-Romanian final in the men's 100kg category as Daniel Natea immobilised Vladut Simionescu for ippon after a cagey opening.

Poland's Maciej Sarnacki and The Netherlands' Roy Meyer claimed the bronze medals at the expense of respective opponents Daniel Allerstorfer of Austria and Renat Saidov of Russia.

Germany's Luise Malzahn met Ukraine's Victoriia Turks in the women's under 78kg final with the former coming out on top.

Malzahn, winner of this year's Samsun Grand Prix and Dusseldorf Grand Prix, scored a first yuko with a huge o-soto-gari initiated inside the fighting area, and concluded just outside.

Less than a minute later, the German scored again in exactly the same place with an aerial koshi-waza technique, which projected Turks over her for waza-ari, and immediately followed on the ground for osea-komi for ippon.

Hungary's Abigel Joo overcame The Netherlands' Guusje Steenhuis in the first bronze medal match before North Korea's Kyong Sol got the better of the United States' London 2012 Olympic champion Kayla Harrison.

Germany's Luise Malzahn (near) overcame Ukraine's Victoriia Turks in the women's under 78kg final ©IJFGermany's Luise Malzahn (near) overcame Ukraine's Victoriia Turks in the women's under 78kg final ©IJF



In the women's over 78kg category, China's Yu Song condemned the top seeded Franziska Konitz of Germany to defeat with a massive left-handed o-soto-gari for ippon

Ukraine's Svitlana Iaromka triumphed against Great Britain's Sarah Adlington in the first bronze medal match, but compatriot Iryna Kindzerska lost out to Russia's Ksenia Chibisova in the second.

The next IJF World Judo Tour event is due to be held in Qingdao, China from November 19 to 21.

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