-63kg Gold: Narumi Tanioka (JPN)
Narumi Tanioka (JPN) threw Friederike Stolze (GER) for waza-ari with osoto-otoshi. Then she threw Iva Oberan (CRO) with uchimata for yuko. She pinned Gili Sharir (ISR) in Golden Score. In the semifinal, she once again used newaza to in, first pinning Joanne Van Lieshout (NED) for waza-ari, then when she turned out, Tanioka proceeded to strangle her for a submission ippon. In the final, she threw Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard with osoto-gari for yuko, then pinned her with uki-gatame for ippon.
-73kg Gold: Orif Abdulloi (TJK)
Every competition has big upsets and in Tashkent, the biggest surprise here was when a complete unknown won the gold in the -73kg division. Orif Abdulloi, who was un-ranked going into this competition, won his first match, against Joshua Green (IRL) through penalties. Against Khojiakbar Toshev (UZB), Abdulloi scored first with a counter for yuko. Then Toshev struck back with osoto-gari for yuko. In Golden Score, Abdulloi threw Toshev with a massive ogoshi that score waza-ari though it could have easily been an ippon. He threw his next opponent, Arun Kumar (IND) three times: Osoto-gari for yuko, ouchi-gaeshi for waza-ari and followed up immediately with a pin for waza-ari-awasete-ippon. In his semifinal, he did really well, throwing Giovanni Esposito (ITA) first with seoi-nage for yuko, then ouchi-gari for ippon. The gold-medal match was a nail-biter. There was no score in regular time but Abdulloi was down two shidos to one against Shakhram Ahadov (UZB), who piled on the pressure to try to get him to incur his third penalty. But around two minutes into Golden Score, Abdulloi managed to throw Ahadov off the ground with uchimata for yuko, to win the match.
-70kg Gold: Miriam Butkereit (GER)
Miriam Butkereit threw made short work of her first opponent, Maya Kogan (ISR), throwing her with osoto-gari for ippon. Against Kamila Badurova (RUS), Butkereit used a hold-down known as Shiba Lock to secure the ippon. She also used a hold-down – this time tate-shiho-gatame – to score ippon against Clemence Eme (FRA) in the semifinal. In the final, against Melkia Auchecorne, Butkereit once again relied on the Shiba Lock.
-81kg Gold: Omar Rajabli (AZE)
Omar Rajabli (AZE) proved to be quite an osaekomi specialist, winning four out of his five matches with hold-downs. First to fall victim to his newaza prowess was Adrian Sulca (ROU) who got pinned with yoko-shiho-gatame. Somon Makhmadbekov (TJK) was countered with a hand technique for waza-ari. He survived a subsequent osaekomi attempt by Rajabli but lost the match. Sotaro Fujiwara (JPN) tried to do a typical Japanese turnover on Rajabli but got countered and pinned with kami-shiho-gatame instead. He countered Arslonbek Tojiev for yuko, then before time was over, used Shiba Lock to pin him for ippon. Rajabli won the final, against Abdul-Kerim Tasuev (RUS) just like he did with most of his other matches, with a hold-down.
