Selected to represent France in the -48 kg category at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer, Shirine Boukli was eliminated in the semi-final before recovering to leave with bronze from the Astana Grand Slam.
La Gardoise was one of the four selected for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to line up at the Astana Grand Slam in Kazakhstan, in order to collect valuable points in order to have seeded status during the Olympic tournament.
While she had qualified without difficulty until the semi-final, Boukli came across a bone in the person of the local of the stage, the Kazakhstani Galiya Tynbayeva.
Everything in control to get bronze
In order not to leave Astana empty-handed, the Frenchwoman put up a controlled fight against the young Spaniard Gemma Maria Gomez Antona (22 years old). To finally collect bronze thanks to the penalty game and score valuable points for the Olympic Games.
Aligned in -57 kg, Sarah-Léonie Cysique also lost in the semi-final and will fight Turkmen Maysa Pardayeva to secure a third place. Among the men, Walide Khyar was eliminated from the start in the – 66 kg category.