VIDEO. Judo: Shirine Boukli wins bronze at the Astana Grand Slam just two months before the Paris 2024 Olympics

La Gardoise finished in third place at the Astana Grand Slam. MAXPPP – Laurent Lairys

Selected to represent France among the – 48 kg during the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer, Shirine Boukli was eliminated in the semi-final before recovering to leave with the bronze of the Grand Slam in Astana.

La Gardoise was one of the four selected for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to line up during the Grand Slam in Astana in Kazakhstan, in order to collect valuable points in order to have seeded status in the Olympic tournament.

While she had qualified without difficulty until the semi-final, Boukli came across a bone in the person of the local of the stage, the Kazakhstani Galiya Tynbayeva.

Everything in control to get bronze

In order not to leave Astana empty-handed, the Frenchwoman put up a very controlled fight against the young Spaniard Gemma Maria Gomez Antona (22 years old). To finally collect bronze thanks to the penalty game and score valuable points for the Olympic Games.

Une belle médaille de bronze pour @ShirineBoukli 🇫🇷 à Astana ! Prochain rendez-vous pour elle : #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/ChOTGyTcWa

— Eurosport France (@Eurosport_FR) May 10, 2024

Aligned – 57 kg, Sarah-Léonie Cysique also lost in the semi-final and will fight Turkmen Maysa Pardayeva to secure a third place. Among the men, Walide Khyar was eliminated from the start among the – 66 kg.