Among the three Dutch victors was former world number one Guusje Steenhuis, who became an IJF Grand Prix champion for the first time by beating compatriot Marhinde Verkerk in the women’s under 78 kilograms final.

There was nothing to separate the arch-rivals in regulation time and golden score was required at the Sportcampus Zuiderpark.

A shido for dropping against Verkerk, the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam silver medallist, settled the final.

The first bronze medal contest was won by Germany’s Luise Malzahn, who beat Russia’s Anastasiya Dmitrieva.

The second went the way of The Netherlands’ Karen Stevenson after she defeated Germany’s Anna Maria Wagner.

Another judoka winning gold for the home nation today was Tessie Savelkouls, who lived up to her billing as the women's over 78kg top seed by overcoming Lithuania’s Sandra Jablonskyte in the final.

Savelkouls, who last time out finished fifth at the Openweight World Championships in Marrakesh, came into the final with a superior 2-1 head-to-head record against Jablonskyte and extended that with a defiant display

The Abu Dhabi Grand Slam winner went ahead with a waza-ari score and applied a kami-shiho-gatame hold for the full 20 seconds to win by ippon.

The first bronze medal was awarded to Great Britain’s Sarah Adlington at the expense of Russia’s Daria Karpova.

Joining her on the third step of the podium was Germany’s Kristin Buessow, who beat fellow countrywoman Samira Bouizgarne.

Completing The Netherlands’ gold medal hat-trick was World Judo Masters bronze medallist Roy Meyer, who showed his power to defeat Poland’s Maciej Sarnacki in the men’s over 100kg final.

Meyer took the lead with a ko-uchi-gari for a waza-ari score and despite having two shidos against his name in the closing moments, he was able to stay active in the last contest of the Grand Prix.

The first bronze medal match was an all-Russian affair that saw Soslan Bostanov overcome Musa Tumenov.  Musa.

Iran’s Javad Mahjoub won the second to the disappointment of Austria’s Daniel Allerstorfer.

One of today’s two other winners was world number one and European champion Aleksandar Kukolj, who went unbeaten to win the men’s under 90kg title.

The Serbian went ahead in the final against Russia’s Magomed Magomedov, registering a ko-uchi-gari with 30 seconds left on the clock, and had no trouble staying busy to see out the contest for his first Grand Prix win.

Rounding out the podium was The Netherlands Jesper Smink and Poland’s Rafal Kozlowski after they came through their bronze medal matches against Germany’s Eduard Trippel and Spain’s Nikoloz Sherazadishvili respectively.

Also tasting victory today was world number eight Kazbek Zankishiev of Russia in the men’s under 100kg category.

He saw off surprise finalist Joakim Dvarby of Sweden to become a two-time Grand Prix winner.

Zankishiev is a notorious slow starter and both his scores in the final came in the last 45 seconds with Dvarby more than holding his own up to that point.

An osoto-gari started the scoring and was worth a waza-ari.

A sode-tsurikomi-goshi then added a second waza-ari.

Dutch athletes dominated the bronze medal contests as Jelle Snippe beat the United Arab Emirates’ Ivan Remarenco and Michael Korrel defeated compatriot Ferdinand Ansah.

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