Alvalade judoka with solid performance in Grand Slam

Sergiu Oleinic continued with his fine form so far this year, this time with a 7th place finish in the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam in the <66kg category.

The Alvalade judoka opened with a win against Munkhbayar Nergui, followed by a victory over Dzmitry Shershan (ranked 6th in the world). However, Oleinic slipped up in his final encounter of the qualification round, missing out to Sebastian Seidl.

Defeat to the Russian Kamal Khan-Magomedov followed to see Oleinic finish 7th overall, but there were plenty of positives to take away from the weekend's performance.

Meanwhile Joana Ramos, 12th in the world rankings, lost here first encounter of the afternoon, against Karolina Pienkowska.