Pool A: Gasimov (AZE)
Gasimov did well to beat Khaibulaev (RUS) in his first fight. He threw the 2012 Olympic champion with a side takedown for waza-ari and then pinned him long enough for a yuko. Next up, Gasimov faced Lyes Bouyacoub (ALG). Gasimov scored first with a nice kosoto-gari for waza-ari. Then Bouyacoub struck back with a soto-makikomi for waza-ari. But as the Algerian had two shidos on the board, at the end of match time, he lost. That brought Gasimov up against Ramadan Darwish (EGY), whom he beat within the first minute with tani-otoshi for ippon.
Pool B: Bloshenko (UKR)
The top prospects here would be Martin Pacek (SWE), Cho Guham (KOR) and Karl-Richard Frey (GER). Nobody expected Artem Bloshenko (UKR) to emerge victor in this pool. His first match was against Soyib Kurbanov (UZB) whom he dispatched with a hugging kosoto-gake for ippon. Next, he threw Hussain Shah Shah (PAK) with sumi-gaeshi for ippon. After that, he threw Cho whom he threw with another sumi-gaeshi for ippon. This brought him up against Frey whom he threw twice, the first being a kosoto-gari and the second, a sasae-tsuri-komi-goshi for yuko.
Pool C: Maret (FRA)
The top prospects here were Maret, Grol and Gviniashvili. In the end, it was the Frenchman who got through. He had an easy first fight against Ayouba Traore (MLI), whom he threw with uchimata within the first 30 seconds. His next match would be against Grol, whom he narrowly beat with a yuko score from a side takedown. It was out of the frying pan and into the fire as he had to face Gviniashvili in the quarter-final. Theirs was a bruising battle but Maret got his chance when Gviniashvili came in for a hip throw. Maret rode it and tipped him over for a waza-ari.
Pool D: Krpalek (CZE)
Krpalek nearly lost against Jorge Fonseca (POR) who threw him with a osoto-gari for yuko. Krpalek struggled until the last 30 seconds when he was able to pull off a sumi-gaeshi for waza-ari. Krpalek's match against Rakov was scoreless but he won on penalties. Next, he wore out Haga with his heavy gripping, allowing him to win again on penalties.
Repecharge
The Darwish-Frey match featured very heavy grip fighting. Midway through the match, Darwish went for broke and lunged at Frey with a hugging kosoto-gake. Frey just whirled him over for a massive ippon. Haga's match against Gviniashvili also featured heavy gripping but it was punctuated with more attempts to to throw. After incurring a shido, Gviniashvili tried every which way he could to get a score on Haga but was unsuccessful. In the end, Haga went through on penalties. Not the way the Japanese like to win, but it's still a win.
Semi-Finals
Bloshenko had defied all expectations to get this far but he met his match when he went up against Gasimov who threw him with kosoto-gake for ippon. In the Krpalek-Maret match, it was the Czech player all the way as he attacked his French opponent non-stop until he finally caught him on the ground and pinned him for ippon.
Bronze
Perhaps to make up for his lacklustre semi-final performance Maret unleashed all his fury on Frey with a picture-perfect osoto-gari that slammed the German flat onto his back. Haga, who is well known of his uchimata, is actually quite good on the ground too, especially with sankaku and it was exactly that technique that he used to pin and strangle Bloshenko into submission.
Day 6: Men's -100kg
As we get into the second heaviest Men's weight class of -100kg, there were still many participants, with a total of 34 competing. There were many past world and Olympic champions in this division, including Tagir Khaibulaev (RUS), Tuvshinbayar Naidan (MGL), Lukas Krpalek (CZE), Maksim Rakov (KAZ) and Ryonosuke Haga (JPN).