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Georgia's Lasha Bekauri defended his men's under 90kg judo title by beating Japan's Sanshiro Murao at the Champ-de-Mars Arena.

Bekauri, who is now a double Olympic champion, won gold in a controversial final that saw him awarded a decisive second waza-ari after a video review just four seconds before the end of the bout.

Murao was denied a similar decision on an attack of his own seconds earlier, leaving his coach in disbelief.

France's Maxime-Gael Ngayap Hambou and Theodoros Tselidis of Greece claimed bronze.

In the women's under 70kg category, Barbara Matic won Croatia their first gold medal of the Games by beating Germany's Olympic debutant Miriam Butkereit.

Austria's Michaela Polleres and Belgium's Gabriella Willems won the women's bronze medals.

Britain's Jemima Yeats-Brown lost out to Tokyo silver medallist Michaela Polleres of Austria in their round of 16 bout in the women's -70kg event in Paris.

The 29-year-old from Kent had beaten her opponent from Madagascar in her opening bout.

Yeats-Brown battled through almost two minutes of extra time against Polleres, who is a two-time European bronze medallist.

Both fighters were on two penalties but the Austrian came through with a Waza-ari.

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Japan's Nagase Takanori comfortably beat Georgia's Tato Grigalashvili 11-0 to win his second Olympic gold medal in men’s judo -81kg.

Following his Tokyo 2020 success, Takanori becomes the first person to win back-to-back golds in the -81kg weight class.

Lee Joon-hwan, of the Republic of Korea, beat Belgium's Matthias Casse to claim bronze in match A, while Tajikistan's Somon Makhmadbekov beat Italy's Antonio Esposito to take bronze in match B.

In the women's -63g, Slovenia's Andreja Leski fought back to win gold at her debut Games against Mexico’s Prisca Awiti Alcaraz.

France's Clarisse Agbegnenou, who won gold in Tokyo, secured bronze in match A by overcoming Austria's Lubjana Piovesana 10-0, before Laura Fazliu clinched bronze to secure Kosovo's second medal of the Games in match B.

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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.