Nyman defeated Krisztian Toth of Hungary to take gold in the men’s under-90 kilograms category thanks to a waza-ari during golden score.

The first bronze medal contest saw Li Kochman of Israel beat Mihael Zgank of Turkey through a waza-ari, earned after a o-soto-gari was combined with a powerful change of direction.

The second bronze medal went to David Klammert of the Czech Republic who earned his first Grand Slam medal by beating Komronshokh Ustopiriyon of Tajikistan thanks to a waza-ari during golden score.

The category was also responsible for what was the biggest upset of the day when Japan’s Tokyo 2020 representative Shoichiro Mukai was beaten by Abderrahmane Benamadi of Algeria in the first round.

In the women’s under-78kg category, the favourite in the field was Japan’s Shori Hamada, who is second on the world ranking list, and progressed to the final where she met Poland’s Beata Pacut.

Hamada was a comfortable winner in the gold medal match thanks to a osae-komi-waza, which scored her an ippon.

The first of the bronze medals on offer went to Antonina Shmeleva of Russia who defeated Zhenzhao Ma of China, when Ma received a third penalty during the golden score period.

The second bronze medal went to 2020 Pan American Championships winner Vanessa Chala of Ecuador who produced a controlled performance to defeat 2015 junior world champion Karla Prodan of Croatia.

In the men’s under-100kg category there was a surprise gold for Zelym Kotsoiev of Azerbaijan who edged out Aaron Wolf of Japan in the final by virtue of getting one less penalty.

In the first bronze medal contest, Russia’s Arman Adamian defeated triple Grand Slam gold medallist Aleksandar Kukolj of Serbia thanks to an impressive ippon score that featured a ko-soto-gari and tani-otoshi.

The second was over almost as quickly as it started, as Grigori Minaskin of Estonia needed only nine seconds to defeat Kyle Reyes of Canada thanks to a kata-guruma.

There was a surprise winner in the women’s over +78kg category, with Raz Hershko of Israel triumphing against Shiyan Xu of China thanks to a sode-tsuri-komi-goshi which gave her a second waza-ari during the golden score period.

The first bronze medal contest went to Hortence Vanessa Mballa Atangana of Cameroon who beat Sonia Asselah of Algeria in a rematch from the previous African Championships, which also went Atangana’s way.

The second of the bronze medals went to Nihel Cheikh Rouhou of Tunisia who overcame Yan Wang of China thanks to a reverse ippon-seoi-nage which gave her a waza-ari.

The final category of the tournament to be decided was the men’s over +100kg category, with the gold going to Tamerlan Bashaev of Russia who beat Hisayoshi Harasawa of Japan thanks to an ippon-ko-soto-gari.

The first of the bronze medals went to Stephan Hegyi of Austria who was victorious against Ushangi Kokauri when the fighter from Azerbaijan was penalised three times.

The second bronze on offer went to Lukas Krpalek of the Czech Republic who scored two waza-aris courtesy of sumi-gaeshis to secure victory.

In the overall medal table, Italy and Japan both finished with two golds and two silvers, but it was the Italians who topped the standings after also earning one fifth and two seventh placed finishes.