Soichi Hashimoto won a bronze medal in the men's 73-kilogram class with a victory over Akil Gjakova of Kosovo while compatriot Haruka Funakubo also took third after outlasting Brazilian Rafaela Silva in the women's 57-kg class at the Paris Olympics on Monday.On a day in which both Japanese judoka were knocked out of gold medal contention early on, two finalists who were both born and raised in Japan -- Canadian Christa Deguchi and South Korean Huh Mi Mi -- battled it out in the final with Deguchi taking the women's 57 kg title.The 32-year-old Hashimoto scored a decisive waza-ari using a "se…READ FULL ARTICLE
