Germany's Belgrade European Cup winner Sappho Coban of Germany took the first gold of the day, beating Brazil's Junior European Cup bronze medallist Jessica Pereira in the final of the under 52 kilogram division in front of a crowd of 5,000.

Coban went ahead early in the contest when her opponent was penalised for passivity.

It was Pereira who took the first score of the contest, however, after scoring a yuko off of a ko-soto-gari.

Coban did well to keep her composure after this and her patience paid off when she managed to throw Pereira with a sumi-gaeshi for a yuko.

Germany's Sappho Coban won the first gold medal of day two beating Jessica Pereira of Brazil



The first bronze medal contest was over within the first minute when Junior European Championships bronze medallist Larisa Florian of Romania toppled Israel's Shira Hayat for an ippon on the 55 second mark.

Poland's Karolina Pienkowska took the second bronze medal of the division, submitting Italian judoka Odette Giuffrida with Shime-waza.

Junior European Championships bronze medallist Arleta Podolak of Poland won gold in the under 7kg weight category beating Canada's Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard in the final.

It was the Polish athlete's last ever Junior World Championships and she made the moment count, throwing her Canadian opponent with an uchi-mata to win by waza-ari.

Japan's 17-year-old Christa Deguchi captured the first bronze medal of the category, defeating Britain's Bekky Livesey with a single yuko score.

The second bronze went to Switzerland's Fabienne Kocher, who edged past Venezuela's Anriquelis Barrios by scoring fewer penalties than her South American opponent.

Arleta Podolak of Poland won gold in the women's -57kg division at her last ever Junior World Championships



The final of the men's under 66kg weight category was an all Japanese affair, with reigning world champion Tateyama Sho up against team mate Hashiguchi Yuuki.

Sho was unable to defend his title and had to settle for silver as Yuuki scored an early wazi-ari to steal the gold.

The first bronze medal was won by France's Lyon Junior European Cup bronze medallist Jeremy Moreira.

The Frenchman ensured two successive defeats for Algeria's Houd Zourdani, who was penalised three times, one time than Moreira.

Slovenia's judoka Adrian Gomboc delighted the crowd by winning the second of the bronze medals, beating Serbia's Llija Ciganovic in another contest sealed by penalty scores.

Defending World Champion Tateyama Sho lost his title to teammate Hashiguchi Yuuki in the men's -66kg category



Italian champion Antonio Esposita won the final gold of the day defeating Uzbekistan's Sarvar Shomurodov in the under 73kg category.

Esposita won Italy's first ever Junior World title by throwing Shomurodov with an uchi-mata for ippon in the second minute of the match.

The first bronze medal was won by Brazil's Gabriel Mendes, who defeated Russia's Imranbek Gabasov by osaekomi-waza.

The second bronze medal was clinched by Greece's Roman Moustopoulos, who ended the hopes of Canada's Arthur Margelido by ippon after 80 seconds.

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