Iran’s Javad Mahjub, who had reached the third round of the tournament by three wins and one loss, fought against the world vice-champion Dimitri Peters from Germany.
During the match, the Iranian fighter was superior in terms of scores but the German rival, having scored a yuko with a counterattack on tani-otoshi, concluded with an armlock for ippon.
The loss led Iran's representative to finish 5th in the 2015 Grand Slam.
He had faced a break at the first round; later Mahjub won over the Swedish judoka Martin Pack, Macedonian fighter of UAE’s national team Ivan Remarenco as well as Azerbaijan’s Elkhan Mammadov, 2013 world champion, to reach semi-finals.
However, he was subdued by Lucas Krpalek, 2014 world champion from the Czech Republic to miss the finals.
The tournament was attended by 88 countries’ judo fighters from October 30 to November 1 while Iran’s national team failed to bag medals.
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