ECh Preview: U70kg

Avtor: Hans van Essen
Datum: 19. 05. 2005

ECh Preview: U70kg

By Hans van Essen, 19 May 2005

ROTTERDAM - Under 70 kilograms there’s only one big favourites. Homeplayer Edith Bosch is by far the best, the tallest and the most strong. She’s also the most experienced and packed with medals throughout her whole career. Bosch became second at the Olympic Games losing to Masae Ueno, who she beat at the Tournoi de Paris this year. The tall Bosch (1.82m) however will fear French Gévrise Emane who’s hard to topple. The small French of 1.62m is able to show a fighting spirit hardly no one can. Although Bosch beat her at the Tournoi de Paris, Emane is a tough rival this year. Emane won the Dutch Open and the French title.
Rasa Sraka from Slovenia is also a favourite. She has won the European title already in 2003. Sraka – Bosch is always a match with history since Bosch was disqualified at the Euros in 2003 in Düsseldorf. Sraka won the European title, last year Bosch was the best in Bucharest.
Sraka won the World Cup in Sofia and became second in Hamburg losing to Heide Wollert (GER).
Wollert won in Hamburg, became second in Rotterdam and is the german answer to the absence of Anett Böhm who has chosen to prepare for the worlds in Cairo, later this year. Wollert has developed well this year and is an outsider.

Italian Ylenia Scapin is always good for a medal. She’s won five so far, and won medals at the World Championships as well as an Olympic medal in Atlanta 1996, which says everything about her experience.

But Scapin never wins the gold and she is therefore an outsider who will for sure surprise someone, but is not considered to surprise Bosch. If Spanish Leire Iglesias, Romanian Croitoru or Catherine Jacques from Belgium have a good day, it can be an interesting fight for the medals.

Last five years winners:
2000 Ursula Martin ESP
2001 Ulla Werbrouck BEL
2002 Adriana Dadci POL
2003 Rasa Sraka SVN
2004 Edith Bosch NED





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