LINTHOI Chanambam (left) with medal and during her match in Lima on Monday (credits – IIS media/ijf) With most of his home country, Linthoi Chanambam smashed history on Monday evening when she grabbed the bronze medal at the JUDO junior championships in Judo, Lima, Peru.She defeated Joni Geilen of the Netherlands in the Repechage round to wrap the first medal in junior worlds. This is her second world event medal after she packed gold at the World Cup in Kadet in 2022 and donated it to her long -term coach Mamuku Kizilashvilili.“I donate this medal to my best coach Mamuka Kizilashvilili.This is quite a success from manipuri Judok, who trains at the Inspire Institute of Sport, given where she was back after surgery in 2023, to repair the torn ACL on her left knee.“I’ve been out for two years. I felt demotivated and lacked confidence. I had locked in my room and cried,” Linthoi said before traveling to Lima.But she had the support of her coach Kizilashvili, the supporting staff and her friends when she finally returned to the mat. But it was not easy.“I came back at the beginning of this year, but I lost.Her perseverance finally paid off when she grabbed the gold medal at the Berlin Junior Cup in June and followed her bronze at Asian junior championships last month.Speaking of her victory in Berlin, she said: “I previously won a medal in the world in the category of cadets, but this victory in Europe mentally meant much more.However, he understands that he must constantly improve if he wants to question the best in the coming days. “There are still many technical aspects I have to work on and my coach leads me through them. But I have already improved a lot in terms of thinking.
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And to make sure that she has trained in Akhmet in Georgia since August. “It was part of the long -term Judosk program that imagined IIS, where I train with five other top athletes under coach Mamuka. We regularly compete in the European circuit, helping us adapt to the physicality and pace of elite competitions at the level of elite levels we always face in the home circuit.Certainly it had a huge impact on her performance, defeating Nour El Faqri of Morocco in the first round and followed by a victory against Brazil Eduarda Bastos in round 16. But then she grabbed her back winning against Ilaria Tsurkan and Geilen to wrap the medal.
