Andy Granda
Cuban judoka (born 1992)
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Andy Granda (born 4 February 1992)[1] is a Cuban judoka. He won the gold medal in the men's +100 kg event at the 2022 World Judo Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is a two-time gold medalist in the men's +100 kg event at the Pan American Games.
Career
In 2014, Granda won the gold medal in the men's team event at the Central American and Caribbean Games held in Veracruz, Mexico.[2] Four years later, in 2018, he won the gold medal in both the men's +100 kg event and the men's team event at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Barranquilla, Colombia.
He won the gold medal in the men's +100 kg event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru.[3]
In 2020, Granda won one of the bronze medals in the men's +100 kg event at the Judo Grand Slam Paris held in Paris, France. In the same year, he won the gold medal in the men's +100 kg event at the 2020 Pan American Judo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.[4]
In 2021, Granda competed in the men's +100 kg event at the Judo World Masters held in Doha, Qatar.[5] He also competed in the men's +100 kg event at the 2021 World Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Granda represented Cuba at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[6] He competed in the men's +100 kg event where he was eliminated in his first match.[7]
Granda won one of the bronze medals in his event at the 2022 Judo Grand Slam Antalya held in Antalya, Turkey and the gold in the 2022 World Judo Championships, having won the final against Saito Tatsuro from Japan.
