LIVE – Clarisse Agbegnenou at the Olympics: a failure in the semi-finals, the day live

Clarisse Agbegnenou will not win a new gold medal, beaten in the semi-finals in judo at the Paris Olympics in the -63kg category by Slovenian Andreja Leski. However, he still has the bronze medal to go for in the small final.

The essentials

• Dream shattered for Clarisse Agbegnenou beaten in the semi-finals at the Paris Olympics. The Frenchwoman will not retain her title in -63kg.
• The Frenchwoman was beaten 15 seconds from the end by the Slovenian Andreja Leski, winner on waza-ari.
• She will compete in the final for the bronze medal and will try to win her 4th Olympic medal after the silver in 2016 and the gold in 2021, completed by the team gold also in Tokyo.

Live

It's over, Andreja Leski goes to the final and eliminates Clarisse Agbegnenou. There will be no new gold medal for the Frenchwoman who will have to remobilize to go for the bronze medal.

17:04 – Video following a move by Leski

Ouch! Waza-ari for Leski 15 seconds from the goal who finds the opening. The referees award the point to the Slovenian.

17:03 – Nice attack by Agbegnenou one minute from the end

No point for Agbegnenou after this maneuver! Leski gets hit with a box (shido).

17:02 – Box on both sides

In a closed fight, Clarisse Agbegnenou and her opponent get hit with a box (shido).

17:01 – No opening after 1 minute and 30 seconds

Few openings for the hour on both sides, the guard holds are disputed. Clarisse Agbegnenou struggles to destabilize Andreja Leski.

17:00 – The tactic is clear

Movement judo for Agbegnenou against a more comfortable judo on the ground for the Slovenian. The deal seems simple. Easier said than done obviously…

4 minutes of combat to reach the -63kg final.

16:59 – Agbegnenou steps onto the tatami

Andreja Leski, 7th in the world, 27 years old, enters the first in a boiling room won over by the cause of Clarisse Agbegnenou.

16:56 – Fazliu wins in golden score, place à Agbegnenou

Laura Fazliu wins in golden score on waza-ari and joins the final for the bronze medal. It will be time for the big semi-final of Clarisse Agbegnenou against the Slovenian Andreja Leski.

16:51 – The repechage fight lasts

Big shock on the tatami in repechage between the Canadian Duchemin-Pinard and the Kosovar Fazliu, eliminated in the quarter by Clarisse Agbegnenou on a superb ippon. This is the last fight on the schedule before the semi-finals.

16:45 – There is one repêchage fight left before the semi-final in Agbégnenou

The program is progressing little by little. The men's semi-finals in -81kg ended with the qualifications of the Japanese Nagase and the Georgian Grigarashvili. The women's repechage fights began in -63kg and will be followed by the first semi-final between Clarisse Agbegnenou and Andreja Leski.

15:32 – At what time will Clarisse Agbegnenou compete in her semi-final ?

A little patience… After the midday break, the judokas will return to the tatami of the temporary Grand Palais on the Champ de Mars from 4 p.m. The men in the -81kg category (where the Frenchman Alpha Djalo was eliminated in the 8th final) will start. Clarisse Agbegnenou will therefore have to wait since she will enter after the repechage fights in her category, i.e. the 7th fight on the program.

14:16 – It's the midday break in judo, the final phases awaited

See you at 4 p.m. for the rest of the day in judo. Clarisse Agbegnenou is in the first women's semi-final on the program, against the Slovenian Andreja Leski. This fight will be preceded by the repechage table allowing to go for the bronze medal.

Magnificent, Clarisse Agbegnenou clears the Fazliu obstacle with style with a superb ippon after only 1 minute and 30 seconds of combat. The Frenchwoman is gaining momentum and earning herself a place in the semi-finals of the Olympic Games! This is what will impress her opponents, starting with the Slovenian Andreja Leski, whom she will face in the semi-finals.

Clarisse Agbegnenou enters the tatami for a major clash against the Kosovar Laura Fazliu.

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It's the big day for Clarisse Agbegnenou! Three years after her title in Tokyo, synonymous with the first Olympic gold medal and consecration for a judoka who had won all the other possible titles, the Frenchwoman is back in action this Tuesday, July 30 in the -63kg category. But things have changed. Maternity has come and gone and the return to training after the birth of her daughter Athena has been complicated. Although she won a new world title in 2023, the last few months have been more difficult with ups and downs like her 7th place at the European Championships followed by a 3rd place at the last World Championships. Far, very far from her stranglehold on the category for many years.

The express biography of Clarisse Agbegnenou

Clarisse Agbegnenou was born to parents of Togolese origin on October 25, 1992. She was therefore 31 years old when she competed in the Paris Olympics. Clarisse Agbegnenou's childhood was marked by illness and difficulties. Born very prematurely with her twin brother Aurélien, Clarisse spent the beginning of her life in an incubator for four weeks and had to undergo an operation due to a kidney malformation. She even fell into a coma for seven days. As a child, even though she was often sick and hospitalized, she fought and ended up tormenting the boys in the primary school playground. Encouraged to judo by her school principal and her parents while she was doing athletics and dancing, the French woman found her way and a way to channel her energy.

She joined the Asnières Martial Arts Club at the age of 9, then joined the French team center at the age of 14, in Orléans, where she continued to torment the boys, but this time on the tatamis. Crowned French junior champion -63 kg in 2009, she joined INSEP and the Judo Club Escales Argenteuil, at the age of 16 and a half. Clarisse Agbegnenou won her first international gold medal at the European Championships in 2013. The first in a long line. Crowned with her titles of world champion and European champion, she arrived at the Rio Games in 2016 with the firm intention of winning the gold medal, but lost in the final to Slovenian Tina Trstenjak. After the Games, she joined the Red Star Club (RSC) of Champigny-sur-Marne. Since then, the French judoka has reigned supreme in her -63kg category. She has collected four additional world champion titles, three European titles and was obviously the favourite for the Tokyo Olympics, where she was designated flag bearer for the French delegation alongside gymnast Samir Aït Saïd. Having left Tokyo with two gold medals (individual -63kg and team), she took a break from her career to give birth to a little girl Athéna in 2022. She made her return to the tatamis last year and gleaned a sixth title of world champion in 2023 before failing at the European championships (7th) and then taking 3rd place at the 2024 World Championships. Clarisse Agbegnenou is also very involved in the associative field and is notably the patron and ambassador of the association SOS Préma.