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Great Britain's Lucy Renshall has been eliminated in the women's Judo - 63kg event in the second round.

The 28-year-old was up against Austria's Lubjana Piovesana, who until 2021 was a GB athlete.

Renshall suffered a 1-0 defeat in golden score, after Piovesana landed a Waza-Ari takedown.

Renshall had earlier needed golden time to progress through round one, beating Australia's Katharina Haecker 11-1 via golden score, with Haecker disqualified after receiving three warnings.

An extraordinary final in the men's under-73kg judo, where Hidayat Heydarov of Azerbaijan has won gold after nine minutes and 24 seconds of intense action.

Heydarov is the world number one, world and European champion, but was pushed all the way by France's Joan-Benjamin Gaba.

Gaba is ranked 35th in the world, but got a deafening support from the Parisian crowd as he pushed the experienced Heydarov all the way to a golden score period after the regulation four minutes passed without points.

Eventually Heydarov found the throw for a winning ippon to seal the title, and leave France looking for their first judo gold of these Games in one of their flagship sports.

Moldova's Adil Osmanov and Soichi Hashimoto of Japan won the two bronze medals which are available in every judo category.

Christa Deguchi has won Canada's first ever judo gold, after the world number one in the women's under-57kg category beat South Korea's Huh Mimi.

Both fighters had received two shido penalties for various infringements - three means disqualification and victory for the other judoka.

Mimi was the one to get the third shido, leading to two-time world champion Deguchi adding an Olympic gold to her title roster.

Japan's Haruka Funakubo and Sarah Leonie Cysique of France took the bronze medals.

Earlier in this weight category, British judoka Lele Nairne was knocked out in the first round by Georgia’s Eteri Liparteliani who won by ippon in less than two minutes.