DeSanto & Buchanan win GOLD

[IRON HAWK]

DeSanto & Buchanan both win gold

at the 52nd annual Henri Deglane Grand Prix in Nice, France.
DeSanto won five matches at 61kg by technical fall, outscoring his opponents by a combined 53-2 mark. He opened with a 10-0 victory over fellow American Nathan Tomasello, and closed by topping Moldova’s Leomid Colesnic,12-2, in the gold medal match. Austin has hit his stride early this season with two international gold medals under his belt in the past three months.
Fellow HWC athlete Buchanan, a 2025 NCAA champion for Iowa, notched a gold medal at 97kg in his first international appearance with three solid wins. He capped it off with an 11-0 technical fall over 2024 Olympian and two-time U23 World medalist Radu Lefter of Moldova.

 

[sdvike]

Desanto is on a roll.

 

[ChicagoHawk2020]

This happened almost 2 weeks ago

 

[sdvike]

This happened almost 2 weeks ago

Was Buchanan in France? Zagrib is next week.

 

[Corby2]

Was Buchanan in France? Zagrib is next week.

Yes

 

[namenoonechose]

Sounds like the HWC is back!!

 

[Hawkapottomos Rex]

Anywhere to watch the matches?

 

[heldyhawk606]

Anywhere to watch the matches?

 

[InTheCircle]

This happened almost 2 weeks ago

Yet nobody posted the success?

 

[ChicagoHawk2020]

Yet nobody posted the success?

They did it was just when all hell broke loose on this board and no one saw it

 

[AndreTheHawk]

Yet nobody posted the success?

I posted it last Friday in the Zagreb thread. (wasn't sure if it had been posted so didn't start a new thread)

 

[HerkHawl]

DeSanto is on the upswing, and should be in the mix with Davino, Jax, Blaze at 61kg, but he is a victim of Olympic weight classes, won't be much of a factor at 57 (if he can make it, though RBY did) or 65 (too small)...but rooting for him all the way!

 

[IRON HAWK]

DESERVES its own thread!!! EXTREMELY important for the HAWKS that HWC does well/ has something going on!!! A kid like DeSanto, doing what he is doing, shows very well, what OUR COACHES can do ARE DOING!!! Kid was never even a POS ncaa Finalist, yet is taking them out TWOOOO the woodshed and more!!!

It is a GR8 sign a GR8 showing for IOWA!!! Not sure where SUPERMAN LEE is? But maybe all of a sudden HWC has 2/3 world , Olympic reps!!!