Teenage judoka Kentaro Iida earned his first career Grand Slam title on Sunday when he won the men's 100-kg division on the final day of competition in Paris.
Japan picked up five gold medals in men's competition and two on the women's side in the two-day event that was contested under new rules, including shortened matches and scrapping of yuko points as well as ippon through "awase waze," or two successive waza-ari.
In the final, 18-year-old Iida, a senior at Tokyo's Kokushikan High School, overcame pressure from the home crowd to beat Rio bronze medalist Cyrille Maret of France for his sixth win in as many bouts at the French capital's AccorHotels Arena.