(BEIJING, August 14) -- Chinese judoka Yang Xiuli defeated Cuba's Yalennis Castillo to claim gold in the Women's -78kg weightclass, and Tuvshinbayar Naidan from Mongolia claimed a waza-ari win over Askhat Zhitkeyev of Kazakhstan to take the gold in the Men's -100kg on the second-to-last day of the Judo competition in Beijing.

　　Women's -78kg

　　Yang Xiuli, the top Chinese judoka and bronze medalist at the 2006 Doha Asian Games, won the gold with a hantei after overtime failed to decide a winner. Yang was declared the winner by the referees after she and Castillo failed to score a point in ten minutes of competition, including five minutes of "golden score" extra time. Yang finished fifth at the 2007 World Championships and first at the 2008 Super World Cup in the same weight division.

　　"This is my first Olympic Games so I was really excited. I think during the competition, the most important part is my perseverance," said Yang Xiuli after the contest. "The achievement is attributed to my coach. In the past, I have called him my coach, but today I want to call him my master worker, he made great efforts to help my career."

　　In the first bronze medal match, Jeong Gyeong-mi of the Republic of Korea, the bronze medalist at the 2007 World Championships and silver medalist at the 2008 Asian Championships, held Edinanci Silva of Brazil down for 25 seconds to win with an ippon. In the second bronze medal match, Stephanie Possamai of France, the 2007 world champion, beat Esther San Miguel of Spain with a waza-ari in the final minute.

　　Men's -100kg

　　Tuvshinbayar Naidan, competing in his first Olympics, got a waza-ari win over Askhat Zhitkeyev of Kazakhstan and gave Mongolia its first gold medal of the Beijing Olympic Games. At the 2006 Doha Asian Games, Naidan finished in joint fifth place in both the Men's +100kg and the open weightclass division.

　　Azerbaijan's Movlud Miraliyev won the first bronze medal by defeating Przemyslaw Matyjaszek of Poland with a waza-ari and a yuko, while Henk Grol of Netherlands, the 2008 European champion, claimed the second by defeating Levan Zhorzholiani of Georgia with two yuko scores.