To Our Friends in Wrestling Around the world
By William May
（Japan Amateur Wrestling Federation, Public
Information Committee
：wmay52@hotmail.com）
JAPAN WINS 4 GOLD IN UNIVERSIADE WRESTLING
IZMIR, Turkey (August 13-17) - Olympic champions Saori Yoshida and
Kaori Icho led the rush for gold at the Universiade as Japanese wrestlers
won four gold medals, silver and two bronze in the collegiate version of
the Olympic
Games. In the first Universiade to feature women's wrestling, Yoshida (55
kg) and Icho (63) were joined at the top of the medals podium by Ayako
Shoda (59) and Mami Shinkai (67).
Yoshida defeated Canada's Tonya Verbeek in a rematch of their gold
medal match a year ago at the Athens Olympics and ran her undefeated streak
against non-Japanese opponents to 88. Yuri Funatsu (48) added a silver
medal and Ayako Murashima (72) took home a bronze as Japan topped the overall
medal standings for wrestling ahead of Turkey's 3-5-2 count.
The Japanese men also got a bronze medal effort from Tsukasa Tsurumaki
(74) in the greco-roman competition.
In freestyle, Seshito Shimizu lost in the final for third place at 55 kg
and had to settle for fifth place.
Results of Japanese entries:
WOMEN
48 kg - FUNATSU, Yuri (2nd, 12 entries)
Q - df. Sara Fulp-Allen (USA), 2-0 (3-1, 3-0)
QF - df. Filiz Cikikci (TUR), 2-0 (2-0, 6-0)
SF - df. Kim Hyung-Joo (KOR) by fall, 3P=0:42
F1 - lost to Carol Huynh (CAN), 0-2 (0-7, 0-2)
----
51 kg - KAI, Yuri (9th, 13 entries)
Q - lost to Lyndsay Belisle (CAN) by fall, 2P=1:01
r1 - lost to Alena Kareisha (BLR), 0-2 (0-1, 1-2)
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55 kg - YOSHIDA, Saori (1st, 10 entries)
R1 - df. Ramona Scherer (GER) by fall, 1P=1:01
SF - df. Olga Levkovskaya (UKR) by fall, 2P=0:30
F1 - df. Tonya Verbeek (CAN), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
----
59 kg - SHODA, Ayako (1st, 10 entries)
Q - df. Maite Piva (FRA) by fall, 1P=1:10
QF - df. Breanne Graham (CAN), 2-0 (4-0, 5-3)
SF - df. Elena Komarova (UKR), 2-0 (2-0, 2-0)
F1 - df. Justyna Barciak (POL), 2-0 (4-0, 6-0)
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63 kg - ICHO, Kaori (1st, 14 entries)
Q - df. Tara Hedican (CAN), 2-0 (1-0, 4-1)
QF - df. Badrakh Oonchimeg (MGL), 2-0 (6-0, 6-0)
SF - df. Myriam Selloum (FRA) by fall, 2P=1:03
F1 - df. Olga Khilko (BLR), 2-1 (0-5, 1-0, 3-0)
----
67 kg - SHINKAI, Mami (1st, 11 entries)
QF - df. Valeria Zlatova (UKR), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
SF - df. Natalya Kysina (RUS) by fall, 2P=0:40
F1 - df. Hatun Muhcu (TUR) by fall
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72 kg - MURASHIMA, Ayako (3rd, 8 entries)
QF - df. Yesim Kilic (TUR), 2-0 (6-0, 6-0)
SF - lost to Ohenewa Akuffo (CAN) by fall, 1P=0:37
F3 - df. Kim Kyung-Mi (KOR) by fall
FREESTYLE
55 kg - SHIMIZU, Seshito (5th, 18 entries)
Q - df. Taqi Dadashi (IRI), 2-1 (2x-2, 1-2, 2-0)
R1 - df. Demir Ramazan (TUR), 2-0 (1-0, 1x-1)
QF - df. Daniel Neustroev (RUS), 2-0 (2-0, 3-0)
SF - lost to Bayaraa Naranbaatar (MGL), 1-2 (3-2, 1-2, 0-1)
F3 - lost to Namig Sevdimov (AZE), 0-2 (0-2, 0-2)
----
60 kg - TAKATSUKA, Noriyuki (dnp, 21 entries)
Q - df Lukasz Goral (POL), 2-0 (2x-2, 1-0)
R1 - lost to Oyunbold Tsagaanbaatar (MGL), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
----
66 kg - IKEMATSU, Kazuhiko (dnp, 23 entries)
Q - lost to Cakmak Abdullah (TUR), 1-2 (2-0, 0-1, 3-3x)
----
74 kg - TAKAHASHI, Ryuta (dnp, 20 entries)
R1 - df. Elnur Aslanov (AZE), 2-1 (0-1, 1-0, 1-0)
R2 - lost to Woo Kang-Sang (KOR), 0-2 (0-1, 2-2x)
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84 kg - ISOKAWA, Takao (8th, 20 entries)
Q - df. Rak Dongchol (PRK), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
R1 - lost to Oleg Kushnir (UKR), 0-2 (0-1, 0-2)
r1 - lost to Man An-Jae (KOR), 1-2 (0-2, 2-1, 1-3)
----
96 kg - YONEYAMA, Yoshitsugu (dnp, 21 entries)
Q - lost to Bold Sainbayar (MGL), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
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120 kg - TANAKA, Akihito (dnp, 16 entries)
R1 - lost to Ivan Ishchenko (UKR), 1-2 (3-0, 0-1, 0-1)
GRECO-ROMAN
55 kg - WADA, Munenori (dnp, 18 entries)
Q - lost to Goderdzi Davitadze (GEO), 0-2 (0-2, 0-6)
----
60 kg - FUKUMA, Michimoto (dnp, 20 entries)
R1 - df. Jaanek Lips (EST), 2-0 (2-1, 5-0)
QF - lost to Yerbol Konyratov (KAZ), 0-2 (0-3, 0-2)
----
66 kg - FUJIMURA, Tsutomu (dnp, 19 entries)
Q - lost to Artak Harutunyan (ARM), 0-2 (0-2, 1-1)
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74 kg - TSURUMAKI, Tsukasa (3rd, 22 entries)
R1 - df. Gusen Zharakov (RUS), 2-0 (3-0, 5-1)
QF - lost to Radoslaw Truszkowski (POL), 0-2 (0-6, 0-3)
r1 - df. Rene Zimmerman (GER), 2-0 (3x-3, 3-0)
F3 - df. Peter Bacsi (HUN), 2-1 (1x-1, 0-4, 6-0)
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84 kg - MATSUNAGA, Shuji (dnp, 21 entries)
R1 - lost to Vahram Galstyan (ARM), 1-2 (6-9, 2-0, 1-2)
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96 kg - ISHIZAWA, Kosuke (dnp, 22 entries)
R1 - lost to Hamdi Eraslankilic (TUR), 0-2 (0-5, 0-9)
r1 - lost to Jakub Cechel (CZE), 0-2 (0-3, 0-7)
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120 kg - SAWADA, Naoki (dnp, 14 entries)
R1 - lost to Alexander Ekimov (RUS), 0-2 (0-2, 0-3)