Yiannis Antoniou wins Cyprus’ first Commonwealth Games gold in judo

Cyprus. Yiannis Antoniou won Cyprus’ first gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday, taking the men’s over-100kg judo title. His victory brought the island’s total medal count at the Games to 12.

Judo medals

Antoniou defeated Australia’s Kayhan Ozcicek-Takagi in the men’s over-100kg category.

In the men’s under-100kg event, Georgos Kroussaniotakis won bronze after defeating fellow Cypriot Aristos Michael.

Zanet Michaelidou secured bronze in the women’s under-78kg category, sharing the position with Canada’s Coralie Godbout.

Earlier results

Odysseas Georgakis won bronze in the men’s under-81kg category on Saturday.

On Friday, Sofia Asvesta took silver in the women’s under-52kg category, while Giorgi Balartashvili won silver and Petros Christodoulides bronze in the men’s under-66kg event.

Earlier in the competition, gymnast Marios Georgiou won silver medals in the parallel bars and horizontal bars, while Neofytos Kyriacou took bronze in the vault.

Hurdler Milan Trajkovic won bronze in the 110m event, and hammer thrower Iosif Kesidis also won silver.