To Our Friends in Wrestling Around the world
By William May
（Japan Amateur Wrestling Federation, Public
Information Committee
：wmay52@hotmail.com）
INABA, HASEGAWA TAKE SILVER AT DAVE SCHULTZ INT’L
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (February 3-4) - Yasuhiro Inaba and Kohei
Hasegawa grabbed a pair of silver medals at 55 kg in freestyle and greco-roman
respectively at the Dave Schultz Memorial International wrestling tournament.
Inaba of Senshu University and Hasegawa of Aoyama Gakuin University led
a squad of Japanese collegiate champions and all-stars to the meet commemorating
one of the United States’ most successful and popular international competitors.
Also for the Japanese select squad, former Chuo University standout Takumu
Otsu and Ryutaro Matsumoto of Nippon Sports Science University (NSSU) won
bronze medals at 55 kg and 60kg in greco-roman.
Takashi Adachi of Yamanashi Gakuin (FS, 55) and Kazuma Kuramoto (GR, 55)
each took fourth place. Meanwhile, Noriyuki Takatsuka (FS, 60) and Shinya
Matsumoto of Nihon University (FS, 84), Waseda’s Tsukasa Sato (FS, 66),
Yoshitsugu Yoneyama of NSSU (FS, 96) and Noritomo Eto of Takushoku (GR,
66) finished in fifth.
Apart from the Japanese select squad, Ayako Murashima, formerly of Chukyo Women’s University and now studying in Canada, took a fifth place in women’s freestyle at 72 kg.
Individual results:
Men’s freestyle
55 kg - ADACHI, Takashi (YGU; 4th, 16 entries)
1R - bye
2R - df. Roger Stewart (USA), 2-0 (6-0,7-0)
3R - df. Svetoslav Neychev Neychev (BUL), 2-0 (1-0,3-1)
SF - lost to Matt Azevedo (USA), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
rs - df. Mark McKnight (USA), 2-0 (5-0, 4-2)
F3 - lost to Luke Eustice (USA), 1-2 (0-1, 5-2, 0-3)
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55 kg - INABA, Yasuhiro (Senshu; 2nd, 16 entries)
1R - bye
2R - df. Luke Eustice (USA), 2-1 (3-2, 0-3, 5-0)
3R - df. Michael Martinez (USA), 2-0 (6-0, 6-0)
SF - df. Dzhamal Otarsultanov (RUS), 2-1 (1-0, 4-5, 5-1)
F1 - lost to Matt Azevedo (USA), 1-2 (1-7, 3-2, 0-3)
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60 kg - TAKATSUKA, Noriyuki (Nihon; 5th, 16 entries)
1R - bye
2R - df. Michael Dunkum (USA) by fall, 1P=1:48
3R - df. Josh Moore (USA), 2-1 (0-1, 1-0, 3-0)
SF - lost to Mike Lightner (USA), 0-2 (0-2, 0-4)
rs - lost to Travis Lee (USA), 1-2 (3-0, 3-3, 0-2)
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60 kg - YUMOTO, Kenichi (NSSU; dnp, 16 entries)
1R - bye
2R - df. Drew Headlee (USA), 2-0 (8-5, 3-0)
3R - lost to Mike Zadick (USA) by fall, 3P=0:58
r2 - lost to Vagif Kaziev (RUS) by fall, 1P=1:20
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66 kg - SATO, Tsukasa (Waseda; 5th, 22 entries)
1R - bye
2R - df. Jeff Ratliff (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 3-0)
3R - df. Bill Zadick (USA), 2-1 (2-1 (1-1, 1-1, 3-0)
SF - lost to Eric Larkin (USA), 1-2 (1-0, 3-4, 0-6)
rs - lost to Arsen Shakhrutdinob (RUS), 0-2 (1-3, 0-1)
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66 kg - FUJIMOTO, Kohei (Takushoku; dnp, 22 entries)
1R - lost to W.R. Groves (USA), 1-2 (1-3, 3-0, 0-1)
r1 - lost to JaMarr Billman (USA), 0-2 (0-1, 1-5)
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74 kg - SAKURAI, Koji (Takushoku; dnp, 22 entries)
1R - bye
2R - lost to Denis Tsargush (RUS), 0-2 (0-7, 0-4)
r2 - lost to Roger Alves (CAN), 0-2 (0-1, 0-2)
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84 kg - MATSUMOTO, Shinya (Nihon; 5th, 14 entries)
1R - lost to Bryce Hasseman (USA), 1-2 (3-0, 1-1, 0-1)
r1 - bye
r2 - df. Ryan Lange (USA), 2-0 (2-2, 1-1)
r3 - df. Tony Gansen (USA), 2-0 (6-0, 6-2)
rs - lost to Gregory Parker (USA), 0-2 (8-9, 3-8)
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96 kg - YONEYAMA, Yoshitsugu (NSSU; 5th, 9 entries)
1R - lost to Josh Pearce (USA), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
r2 - df. Nikoloz Begashivili (GEO) by injury default
r3 - df. William Serrano Morales (ELS), 2-0 (6-0, 7-0)
rs - lost to Nik Fekete (USA), 0-2 (0-2, 0-2)
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120 kg - KITAMURA, Katsuya (Senshu; dnp, 10 entries)
1R - df. Diego da Silva Rodrigues (BRA), 2-1 (0-1, 4-0, 2-0)
2R - lost to Michael Irving (USA), 0-2 (0-7, 0-6)
r1 - lost to Brian Keck (USA), 0-2 (0-1, 0-2)
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Men’s greco-roman
55 kg - KURAMOTO, Kazuma (Takushoku; 4th, 16 entries)
1R - df. Juan Cortes Lazcano (MEX), 2-0 (4-0, 7-0)
2R - lost to Joseph Betterman (USA), 0-2 (0-6, 0-6)
r2 - df. Alptekin Ozkilic (USA), 2-0 (3-0, 4-0)
r3 - df. Im Dae-Won (KOR), 2-1 (6-3, 0-2, 5-3)
rs - df. Yun Young-Min (KOR) by disq.
F3 - lost to Takumu Otsu (JPN), 1-2 (0-2, 6-0, 0-2)
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55 kg - HASEGAWA, Kohei (AGU; 2nd, 16 entries)
1R - df. Sherali Shodmanov (UZB), 2-1 (2-1, 0-5, 4-0)
2R - df. Im Dae-Won (KOR), 2-1 (4-3, 1-3, 3-1)
SF - df. Joseph Betterman (USA) by fall, 2P=1:50
F1 - lost to Lindsey Durlacher (USA), 0-2 (1-6, 1-2)
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55 kg - OTSU, Takumu (Suta-tsu; 3rd, 16 entries)
1R - df. Alptekin Ozkilic (USA), 2-0 (4-0, 5-1)
2R - lost to Lindsey Durlacher (USA) by disq.
r2 - df. Jan Hocko (CZE), 2-0 (3-0, 2-0)
r3 - df. Venelin Petkov Venkov (BUL), 2-0 (5-4, 2-2)
rs - df. Joseph Betterman (USA) by injury default
F3 - df. Kazuma Kuramoto (JPN), 2-1 (2-0, 0-6, 2-0)
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60 kg - MATSUMOTO, Ryutaro (NSSU; 3rd, 17 entries)
1R - bye
2R - df. Dallas Seavy (USA), 2-0 (8-0, 6-0)
3R - lost to Dilshod Aripov (UZB), 0-2 (2-4, 0-4)
r3 - df. Kenta Iwasaki (JPN), 2-0 (2-0, 4-0)
r4 - df. Jeremiah Davis (USA), 2-0 (6-0, 6-0)
rs - df. Joe Warren (USA) by injury default
F3 - df. Dallas Seavy (USA), 2-0 (6-0, 6-0)
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60 kg - IWASAKI, Kenta (Senshu; dnp, 17 entries)
1R - bye
2R - lost to Joe Warren (USA) by fall, 2P=0:45
r1 - df. Milton Bailey (GUA), 2-0 (4-2, 4-0)
r2 - df. Chaz Tillman (USA), 2-0 (3-2, 6-0)
r3 - lost to Ryutaro Matsumoto (JPN), 0-2 (0-2, 0-4)
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66 kg - ETO, Noritomo (Takushoku; 5th, 23 entries)
1R - df. Mark Rial (USA), 2-0 (1-1, 5-3)
2R - df. Bryson Vasquez (USA), 2-0 (2-1, 4-1)
3R - lost to James Shillow (USA) by disq.
r3 - df. John Dibala (USA), 2-0 (8-0, 4-0)
r4 - df. Glenn Garrison (USA) by fall, 2P=1:28
rs - lost to Marcel Cooper (USA), 0-2 (1-2, 0-4)
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74 kg - OKAMOTO, Teppei (Takushoku; dnp, 13 entries)
1R - df. Joseph Zinkan (USA), 2-0 (6-0, 6-0)
2R - lost to Jess Hargrave (USA) by fall, 1P=1:34
r2 - lost to Yavor Dimitrov Yanakiev (BUL), 0-2 (1-5, 0-6)
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96 kg - YAMAGUCHI, Ryuji (Takushoku; dnp, 14 entries)
1R - lost to Justin Ruiz (USA), 0-2 (0-6, 0-5)
r1 - lost to Jiri Matysek (CZE), 1-2 (0-7, 4-0, 0-6)
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120 kg - SHATO, Tetsuya (NSSU; dnp, 11 entries)
1R - lost to Dremiel Byers (USA), 0-2 (0-7, 0-4)
r1 - lost to Jacob Marquardt (USA), 0-2 (0-3, 0-4)
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Women’s freestyle
72 kg - MURASHIMA, Ayako (CWU club; 5th, 7 entries)
1R - Rosangela Conceico (BRA), 2-0 (3-0, 3-0)
SF - lost to Pam Wilson (CAN), 1-2 (0-4, 1-0, 0-4)
rs - lost to Nina Sklenkova (CZE) by fall, 1P=0: