Gibbons has suffered from several injuries since earning silver at the London 2012 Olympics and was recently beaten in the early rounds of the inaugural European Games in Baku, which doubled as the European Championship.

She showed no signs of that disappointment affecting her in Mongolia as she produced a confident performance to come from behind in her semi-final against Japan’s Akari Ogata, winning the contest with a waza-ari.

The 28-year-old was able to build on her performance in the final against the top seed Sarah Myriam Mazouz as, despite trailing in the early stages, Gibbons was able to counter and attack by her Gabonese opponent to secure the match winning ippon.

Ogata bounced back from her semi-final defeat to the Britain to claim one of the two bronze medals available, with her Japanese compatriot Rika Takayama securing the second, defeating South Korea’s Hyunji Yoon with an ippon.

The women’s over 78kg heavyweight division was won by China’s Qian Qin following a cagey final with Germany’s Carolin Weiss, in which neither judoka was able to score a point throughout the duration of the bout.

It left the officials to award the contest to the Chinese heavyweight as she had not been penalised throughout the encounter, while 22-year-old Weiss had received two penalties.

Sisi Ma added to Qin’s gold for China by claiming bronze and was joined on the podium by France’s Marine Erb, who was successful in her bronze medal bout with Kazakhstan’s Gulzhan Issanova.

The final day of the Grand Prix also saw the hosts claim further success as Otgonbaatar Lkhagvasuren earned their fifth gold medal of the weekend with an ippon in the final minute of his men’s under 90kg final against China’s Xunzhao Cheng.

Uzbekistan’s Erkin Doniyorov defeated Germany’s Aaron Hilderbrand with a wazaa-ari, while Sweden’s Joakim Dvarby also won bronze due after winning via an ippon against Samat Yessen.

There was double gold medal success for Japan as they secured both the men’s under and over 100kg divisions, including a triumph for Aaron Wolf in only his second appearance at a senior international competition.

The 19-year-old defeated Sweden’s Martin Pacek with a kami-shiho-gatame in the under 100kg final.

Britain’s Benjamin Fletcher and Iran’s Javad Mahjoub finished on the podium after respective victories over Mongolia’s Janchivdorj Bunddorj and Ambaselmaa Bayarsaikhan.

Kenta Nishigata clinched the second Japanese gold with an ippon in the over 100kg final on Germany’s Sven Heinle.

The host nation secured both bronze medals, Temuulen Battulga and Duurenbayar Ulziibayar defeating France’s Jean-Sebastien Bonovoisin and Kazakhstan’s Iurii Krakovetskii in their respective bouts.

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