Canada's Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard wins silver medal at judo world championships

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 7:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Canada's Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard took the metallic medal successful the under-63-kilogram value people astatine the satellite judo championships Monday aft losing the last bout successful other time.

Japan's Haruka Kaju, unbeaten since her World Judo Tour debut past year, withstood Beauchemin-Pinard's crushed crippled and scored a pin for ippon — oregon afloat constituent — successful "golden score" abrupt death.

It was the 2nd satellite title metallic for Beauchemin-Pinard, who besides finished runner-up successful 2022.

The 30-year-old from Montreal besides won bronze successful the value people astatine the Tokyo Olympics successful 2021 and golden astatine the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2019 and 2020 Pan American championships.

Three of her 4 wins came by ippon, but she couldn't proceed her dominance against the Japanese rising star.

"It's inactive truly caller and I deliberation it's going to instrumentality maine a fewer much days to digest this defeat, due to the fact that I felt I could person beaten [Kaju]," Beauchemin-Pinard said.

Still, Beauchemin-Pinard said she was arrogant to scope the podium.

"I'm thrilled with my result," she said. "Obviously, instantly aft the fight, I was disappointed due to the fact that the golden medal was good wrong reach. I felt similar I'd mislaid the golden alternatively than won silver, but arsenic the time went on, I realized that I had enactment successful a large day's fighting."

In different action, Francois Gauthier-Drapeau of Alma, Que., mislaid his archetypal bout successful the under-81 kg class to Zaur Dvalashvili of Georgia.