May 25, 2018 Grand Prix Hohhot

Day 1

In the first day of the Hohhot Grand Prix, 12^th ranked Angelica Delgado (-52kg) won her first two matches against 34^th ranked Tinka Easton of Australia and 19^th ranked Betina Temelkova of Israel. After losing her third fight by ippon to 5^th ranked and 17 year old, Uta Abe from Japan, Delgado faced 37^th ranked Da Sol Park of Korea who submitted her with a juji-gatame to earn a 5^th place finish.

Ashlyn White (-48kg) lost her first fight to 73^rd ranked Sephora Corcher of France.

Leilani Akiyama (-57kg) lost her first fight to Christa Deguchi of Canada who would go on to win the Gold medal in the category.

Day 2

Lauren De Smidt (-63kg) lost her first fight to 46^th ranked Yasmine Horlaville of France.

In her first fight of the day, Hannah Martin (-63kg) lost to Han Liu of China.

Chantal Wright (-70kg) lost her first fight to 31^st ranked Aoife Coughlan of Australia.

Nicholas Delpopolo (-73kg) fought and lost his first match against number 1 ranked judoka Soichi Hashimoto of Japan.

Alexander Turner (-73kg) won his first fight against 27^th ranked Ahmed El Meziati of Morocco, but then lost his second match to 14^th ranked Tsogthbaatar Tsend-Ochir of Mongolia.

Jack Hatton (-81kg) lost his first match to Alexios Ntanatsidis of Greece.

Ruben Martin (-81kg) lost his first match to 34^th ranked Takeshi Sasaki of Japan who would go on to win the Gold medal in the category.

Day 3

24^th ranked Colton Brown (-90kg) won his first two matches against Xuewen Wang of China and 21^st ranked Zachary Burt of Canada. After losing his third round to35th ranked Jesper Smink of the Netherland, Colton would be defeated once again by Theodoros Tselidis of Greece to earn 7^th place in the category.

L.A. Smith III (-100kg) won his first fight of day three against 54^th ranked Saidzhalol Saidov of Tajikistan, but then fell in his second match to 72^nd ranked Daiki Nishiyama of Japan.