To Our Friends in Wrestling Around the world
By William May
（Japan Amateur Wrestling Federation, Public
Information Committee
Kyodo World Services, senior sports writer：wmay52@hotmail.com）
COLLATED RESULTS FROM 46TH GR WORLD C'SHIPS
PATRAS (Greece) - Results of the Japanese wrestlers at the
46th greco-roman wrestling world championships
at Dimitrios Tofalos Stadium in Patras, Greece,
on December 6-9:
54 kg - MURATA, Tomoya
(Hino Club), 9th place (27 entries)
1R - won overtime decision over Bayram Ozdemir,
Turkey, 3-1 (6:26)
2R - bye
3R - won decision over Anders Nyblom, Denmark,
3-0
C1 - lost decision to Khatri Mukesh, India,
7-1
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58 kg - SASAMOTO, Makoto
(Sogo Keibi, employee), 5th place (37 entries)
1R - bye
2R - won decision over Hugo Passos, Portugal,
11-2
3R - won by fall over Ravinder Singh, India,
3:22 (10−0)
QF - lost decision to Armen Nazarian, Bulgaria,
8-2
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63 kg - IMURA, Masaki
(Self Defense Forces), 32nd place (33 entries)
1R - lost decision to Dmytro Monastyrsky,
Ukraine, 6-0
2R - bye
3R - lost technical fall to Kim In-Sub, Korea,
11-0 (2:13)
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69 kg - NAGATA, Katsuhiko
(New Japan Pro Wrestling, employee), 13th
place (28 entries)
1R - bye
2R - lost decision to Moises Sanchez, Spain,
9-2
3R - won decision over Endrix Arteaga, Venezuela
4-1
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76 kg - SUGA, Taichi (Nihon
University), 22nd place (34 entries)
1R - won decision over Tano Proshenski, Bulgaria
2R - bye
3R - lost technical fall to Marko Yli-Hannuksela,
Finland, 11-0 (2:04)
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85 kg - MATSUMOTO, Shingo
(Ichimiya Unyu, employee), 13th (29) entries
1R - won technical fall over Jerry Van De
Pool, Netherlands, 13-0 (2:52)
2R - lost overtime decision to Sandor Bardosi,
Hungary, 3-2 (8:06)
3R - bye
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97 kg - MORIKAKU, Yusuke
(Nippon Sports Science University, student),
26th place (31 entries)
1R - bye
2R - lost by technical fall to Alexandre
Bezroutchkine, Russia, 11-0 (4:20)
3R - lost overtime decision to Cedric Theval,
France, 4-2 (7:51)
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130 kg - HAMAUE, Minoru
(Miyazaki Nogyo high school, teacher), dnp,
24 entries
Hamaue did not compete
in the championships
