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By William May
（Japan Amateur Wrestling Federation, Public Information Committee：wmay52@hotmail.com）
JAPANESE BAG 3 GOLD AT WORLD STUDENT C'SHIPS
TORINO, Italy (October 26-30) – Tomotsugu Ishida and Yuta Uchimura won
gold medals in men's freestyle and Minoru Akeo added a third in women's
wrestling at the World University Wrestling Championships at Palazzetto
Ruffini in Torino.
Takumi Yokoyama earned a bronze medal in greco-roman style as the Japanese men slipped a bit from their performance in 2008 student championships, while the women marked a bit of an improvement.
Ishida of Waseda University, a fifth-place finisher in last year's junior world champinships, rolled to four wins without giving up a single period to win the 66kg crown while Takushoku's Uchimura defeated European bronze medalist Andrei Perpelita (MDA) for the 60kg crown.
Manabu Suto of Nihon University was the only other Japanese entry to advance to a medal match, but had to settle for for fifth place at 55kg. This left Japan well shy of its performance in 2008 when the men's freestyle squad took three gold and two bronze.
In women's freestyle, Akeo of International Pacific Rim University (IPU) led the charge with a gold medal at 48kg that kept alive Japan's streak, beginning in 2002, of at least one gold medal at the student championships.
Akeo's IPU teammate Yurika Ito advanced to the finals at 59kg but fell in a close match to 2009 world bronze medal winner Ganna Vasylenko (UKR). Hiroe Suzuki of Ritsumeikan edged Olympic bronze medalist Agnieszka Wieszczek (POL) in the quarterfinals at 72kg, but was pinned by Ali Bernard (USA) in the final.
The Japanese women finished with a gold, two silver and two bronze to improve on their 2008 haul of a gold and two bronze.
In greco-roman, Takumi Yokoyama, a graduate of the Nippon Sports Science University, notched three wins against a loss to win a bronze medal at 60kg – Japan's lone medal in the competition.
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Men's freestyle
55kg – SUTO, Manabu (5th, 12 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. David Tremblay (CAN), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
SF – lost to Muslim Gabibov (RUS). 0-2 (0-1, 0-2)
F3 – lost to F. Dezhamkhoyshahgoli (IRI), 0-2 (0-1, 0-3)
60kg – UCHIMURA, Yuta (1st, 15 entries)
R1 – df. Radoslaw Kisiel (POL), 2-0 (4-3, 7-0)
R2 – df. Artur Akhmedov (RUS), 2-1 (0-2, 1-0, 3-1)
SF – df. L. Symak (UKR), 2-0 (2-0, 1-0)
F1 – df. Andrei Perpelita (MDA), 2-1 (5-3, 0-1, 3-0)
66kg – ISHIDA, Tomotsugu (1st, 16 entries)
R1 – df. Yuri Poliak (ISR), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
R2 – df. Vladimir Gotsian (MDA), 2-0 (2-0, 4-2)
SF – df. Zaur Efendiev (RUS), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
F1 – df. Nikolai Kurtiev (BUL), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
74kg – TAKATANI, Sosuke (7th, 18 entries)
R1 – df. Daniel Oliver (CAN) by fall, 2P=1:21 (4-0, F3-0)
R2 – df. Jon Reader (USA), 2-0 (4-1, 3-0)
R3 – lost to Ivan Deliverski (BUL), 1-2 (0-1, 3-2, 0-1)
84kg – MATSUMOTO, Atsushi (9th, 17 entries)
R1 – df. Giorgi Chitashvili (BLR), 2-1 (0-2, 2-0, 3-0)
R2 – lost to Anton Vlasenkov (RUS) by fall, 2P=1:58 (2-6, F2-4)
96kg – KUROKAWA, Wataru (11th, 11 entries)
R1 – lost to Erinc Salih (TUR), 0-2 (0-3, 0-2)
r1 – lost to Dragomir Stoichev (BUL), 0-2 (0-4, 0-5)
120kg – AIZAWA, Yuto (12th, 12 entries)
R1 – lost to Andrei Podsevalnicov (MDA) by fall, 2P=1:59
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Women's freestyle
48kg – AKEO, Minori (1st, 11 entries)
R1 – df. Jasmine Mian (CAN) by fall, 3P=1:01 (6-2, 0-6, F4-0)
R2 – df. Erdenesukh Narangerel (MGL), 2-0 (5-1, 5-3)
SF – df. Suemeyye Sezer (TUR), 2-0 (6-0, 3-0)
F1 – df. Alina Moreva (RUS), 2-0 (3-1, 2-0)
51kg – SHIMIZU, Ai (3rd, 11 entries)
R1 – df. Aurelie Basset (FRA) by fall, 2P=1:57 (3-0, F2-0)
R2 – df. Henriette Slaatum (NOR), 2-1 (0-1, 7-6, 0-3)
SF – lost to Genevieve Haley (CAN), 1-2 (0-1, 7-6, 0-3)
F3 – df. Ganna Starygina (UKR), 2-1 (1-1x, 1-0, 2-0)
55kg – ARAI, Chiaki (9th, 10 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – lost to Trinity Plessinger (USA), 1-2 (1-0, 0-6, 0-3)
59kg – ITO, Yurika (2nd, 8 entries)
R1 – df. Katarzyna Krawczyk (POL) by fall, 3P=1:21 (1-0, 3-5, F3-0)
SF – df. Anna Maksimova (RUS) by fall, 3P=0:30 (2-6, 3-0, 3-0)
F1 – lost to Ganna Vasylenko (UKR), 1-2 (0-3, 1x-1, 1-2)
63kg – TAKAHASHI, Marina (3rd, 12 entries)
R1 – df. Hanna Savenia (BLR), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
R2 – df. Amberle Montgomery (USA), 2-1 (4-4b, 7-2, 3-2)
SF – lost to Yuliya Ostapchuk (UKR) by fall, 1P=0:45 (F0-6)
F3 – df. Gozal Zutova (AZE), 2-0 (1-0, 3-2)
67kg – IIJIMA, Chiaki (7th, 9 entries)
R1 – df. Maria Diana (ITA), 2-1 (0-1, 2-1, 5-2)
R2 – lost to Oksana Nagornykh (RUS) by fall, 1P=1:59 (F0-4)
72kg – SUZUKI, Hiroe (2nd, 10 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Agnieszka Wieszczek (POL), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
SF – df. Sheherazade Bentorki (FRA), 2-0 (1-0, 4-1)
F1 – lost to Ali Bernard (USA) by fall, 2P=1:44 (1-0, F4-2)
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Greco-roman
55kg – OGATA, Tsubasa (8th, 9 entries)
R1 – lost to Orkhan Ahmadov (AZE), 0-2 (0-3, 0-1)
60kg – YOKOYAMA, Takumi (3rd, 15 entries)
R1 – df. Fuat Seker (FRA), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
R2 – df. Joe Kemmerer (USA), 2-0 (4-3, 4-0)
SF – lost to Orkhan Pashayev (AZE), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
F3 – df. Alexandar Alexsandrov (BUL), 2-1 (0-1, 1-0, 1-0)
66kg – OKAMOTO, Yuji (10th, 18 entries)
R1 – lost to Yuri Denisov (RUS), 1-2 (0-2, 2-0, 0-2)
74kg – NAKAI, Shinichi (18th, 18 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – lost to Robert Rosengren (SWE), 0-2 (0-3, 0-6)
84kg – OKA, Taichi (5th, 16 entries)
R1 – df. Aliaksandr Hrabovik (BLR), 2-1 (0-1, 2-0, 1-0)
R2 – lost Ahmet Yildirim (TUR), 1-2 (1-0, 0-1, 0-1)
r1 – df. Endre Molnar (SRB), 2-0 (3-0, 1-0)
F3 – lost to Michal Joskowski (POL), 0-2 (0-1, 0-6)
96kg – TATSUTA, Taichi (9th, 16 entries)
R1 – lost to Haavard Hestdaren (NOR), 1-2 (1-0, 0-1, 0-1)
120kg – KONO, Ryuta (9th, 11 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – lost to Szreder Seweryn (POL), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
SHIMIZU, 4 OTHERS WIN AT SUNKIST OPEN
PHOENIX, Arizona (October 23-24) – Reigning national champ Hiroyuki Shimizu won a gold medal in greco-roman and four freestylers added to the Japanese haul at the Sunkist Open international wrestling tournament.
Shimizu rolled to four wins without surrendering a point to win the greco-roman crown at 66kg while fellow squad members Yoshitaka Kido and Kazuma Kuramoto added silver and bronze medals at 60kg, respectively.
In men's freestyle, Yasuhiro Morita (55kg) and Takafumi Kojima (66kg) won gold medals, with Kojima notching three falls in the early rounds before defeating Japanese teammate Kohei Fujimoto for the gold medal.
In women's freestyle, Chikako Matsukawa (55kg) and Kayoko Kudo (63kg) were golden while Kayoko Shimada had to settle for silver after falling to U.S. national team member Kelsey Campbell in the 59kg final.
Ken Sogabe, meanwhile, upended 1996 Olympic silver medalist Matt Ghaffari (USA), who is now 48 years old, in their opening greco-roman match at 120kg on his way to a fifth-place finish.
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Greco-Roman
55kg – HATANO, Teppei (5th, 8 entries)
R1 – lost to Matthew Chambers (USA) by fall, 2P=0:54
r1 – df. Roger Stewart (USA), 2-0 (7-0, 3-1)
r2 – lost to Jermaine Hodge (USA), 0-2 (0-6, 3-9)
F5 – df. Matthew Chambers (USA) by default
60kg – KIDO, Yoshitaka (2nd, 6 entries)
R1 – df. Donovan DePatto (USA), 2-0 (5-0, 2-0)
SF – df. Savriddin Navruzov (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 4-0)
F1 – lost to Joe Betterman (USA), 1-2 (0-5, 3-0, 1-0)
60kg – KURAMOTO, Kazuma (3rd, 6 entries)
R1 – bye
SF – lost to Joe Betterman (USA), 0-2 (0-2, 0-1)
r1 – Donovan DePatto (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 2-0)
F3 – df. Savriddin Navruzov (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 5-0)
66kg – SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki (1st, 12 entries)
R1 – df. John Cox (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 8-0)
R2 – df. Chris Hunt (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 6-0)
SF – df. Tanner Andrews (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 1-0)
F1 – df. Glenn Garrison (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
74kg – KAKU, Kosuke (did not place, 13 entries)
R1 – lost to Jordan Dewald (USA), 1-2 (1-0, 0-3, 0-3)
r1 – df. George Bancroft (USA) by injury default, 2P
r2 – df. Jamarii Tucker (USA), 2-1 (1-0, 0-1, 1-0)
r3 – lost to Jonathan Drendel (USA) by fall, 1P=1:43
96kg – FUKUDA, Hiroki (5th, 9 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Robert Barbour (USA) by fall, 1P=1:49
SF – lost to R.C. Johnson (USA), 0-2 (1-4, 0-8)
r1 – lost to K Walsh (USA) by fall, 2P=1:00
F5 – df. John Lorenz (USA) by default
120kg – SOGABE, Ken (4th, 6 entries)
R1 – df. Matt Ghaffari (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
SF – lost to Deon Hicks (USA), 1-2 (1-0, 0-1, 0-2)
r1 – df. Kenny Lester (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
F3 – lost to Brandon Rupp (USA) by fall, 3P
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Men's freestyle
55kg – MORITA, Yasuhiro (1st, 8 entries)
R1 – df. Jarrod Patterson (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 6-4)
SF – df. Carson Kuhn (USA), 2-1 (5-0, 1-4, 2-0)
F1 – df. Ryan Finch (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 6-0)
60kg – SHIMIZU, Seshito (4th, 14 entries)
R1 – df. David Prado (USA), 2-0 (5-0, 8-0)
R2 – df. Jordan Keller (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
SF – lost to Derek Moore (USA), 0-2 (0-6, 0-6)
r1 – df. Franklin Gomez (USA) by fall, 1P=1:57
F3 – lost to Drew Headlee (USA), 1-2 (1-0, 0-1, 1-2)
66kg – KOJIMA, Takafumi (1st, 25 entries)
R1 – df. Christ Hunt (USA) by fall, 2P
R2 – df. Taihei Fukumoto (USA) by fall, 1P=1:37
R3 – df. Sanjaa Ganbayar (USA) by fall, 1P=0:55
SF – df. Philip Simpson (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 1-1)
F1 – df. Kohei Fujimoto (JPN), 2-1 (2-3, 2-0, 4-0)
66kg – FUJIMOTO, Kohei (2nd, 25 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Kyle Borshoff (USA), 2-1 (4-0, 1-6, 1-0)
R3 – df. Angel Cejudo (USA), 2-1 (2-1, 2-3, 2-0)
SF – df. Justin Pearch (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
F1 – lost to Takafumi Kojima (JPN), 1-2 (3-2, 0-2, 0-4)
74kg – TAKAHASHI, Ryuta (dnp, 25 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Michael Mitchell (USA) by fall, 2P=1:20
R3 – lost to Cyler Sanderson (USA), 1-2 (1-1, 3-2, 1-2)
r1 – df. Evan Knight (USA), 2-0 (3-1, 6-0)
r2 – lost to Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (USA), 1-2 (4-3, 0-5, 0-3)
96kg – SHIMOYASHIKI, Yoshitaka (dnp, 11 entries)
R1 – lost to Luke Macchiaroli (USA), 1-2 (1-1, 1-1, 2-2)
r1 – lost to Tyler Lehmann (USA) by fall, 1P=1:21
120kg – SAKURAI, Norihiro (dnp, 9 entries)
R1 – lost to Matt Gibson (USA), 0-6, 6-8)
r1 – lost to Nate Fernandez (USA) by fall, 2P=0:58)
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Women's freestyle
48kg – SUZUKI, Ayano (5th, 9 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Brianna Rahall (USA), 2-0 (4-0, 7-0)
SF – lost to Clarissa Chun (USA), 0-2 (0-3, 0-3)
r1 – lost to Joey Miller (USA) by fall, 2P=0:32
F5 – df. Nicole Woody (USA), 2-1 (0-2, 4-1, 4-0)
55kg – MATSUKAWA, Chikako (1st, 9 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Tamara Tillman (USA) by fall, 2P=0:18
SF – df. Andrea Ross (CAN) by fall, 1P=1:49
F1 – df. Natasha Umemoto (USA) by fall, 1P=1:42
59kg – SHIMADA, Kayoko (2nd, 17 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Rachel Shannon (USA) by fall, 1P=1:45
R3 – df. Tianna Camous (USA) by TF, 2-0 (7-0, 7-0)
SF – df. Othella Lucas (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 4-0)
F1 – lost to Kelsey Campbell (USA), 1-2 (3-1, 0-1, 0-3)
59kg – NAKATA, Eriko (5th, 17 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Jenna Burkett (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
R2 – df. Cianah Hee (USA) by fall, 1P=1:19
SF – lost to Kelsey Campbell (USA), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
r1 – lost to Jenna Burkett (USA) by fall, 2P
F5 – df. Cianah Hee, 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
63kg – KUDO, Kayoko (1st, 8 entries)
R1 – df. Amanda Hendey (USA) by fall, 1P=1:26
SF – df. Sheila McCabe (USA), 2-0 (4-0, 9-2)
F1 – df. Vanessa Oswalt (USA), 2-1 (2-2, 6-0, 8-2)
OKAMOTO 3-PEAT IN GR COLLEGIATE C'SHIPS
TOKYO (October 14-15) – Yuji Okamoto won his third straight title collegiate greco-roman title and Takushoku University had four champions to hold onto the team title at the All-Japan Collegiate Greco-Roman Championships.
Okamoto outscored five opponents 48-0 on his way to the 66kg title at Komazawa Gymnasium and doubled up on the collegiate national championship and collegiate open crowns for a second straight year. Okamoto was also named the outstanding wrestler of the competition.
Meanwhile, Takushoku's Taichi Oka defeated defending champion Masayuki Oka at 84kg for his first collegiate national championship crown and his third title of the year winning in greco-roman and freestyle (96kg) at the collegiate open in August.
Takushoku repeated as team champion and won its eighth title overall in the competition with four champions and 63.5 points. Waseda trailed by more than 20 points in second place but claimed its highest finish in the meet with 42 points, surpassing its third-place finish in 2005.
Nippon Sports Science University, coming off a 13-month suspension, had a pair of runners-up without a champion and finished in third place overall with 31 points.
Championship finals
55kg – Masaharu Kaji (Yamanashi Gakuin) df. Shuhei Shibata (Kanagawa), 2-0 (3-0, 7-0)
60kg – Yuta Uchimura (Takushoku) df. Tatsuya Sonobe (NSSU), 2-0 (7-0, 3-0)
66kg – Yuji Okamoto (Taku) df. Yuki Makise (Toyo) by TF, 2-0 (6-0, 8-0)
74kg – Shinichi Nakai (Chuo) df. Tomoaki Watanabe (NSSU), 2-0 (2-1, 1-0)
84kg – Taichi Oka (Taku) df. Masayuki Amano (Chuo), 2-1 (0-4, 1-0, 6-0)
96kg – Takeshi Yamaguchi (Waseda) df. Yosuke Sato (Meiji) by disq., 3P=1:13
120kg – Masahiro Tanida (Taku) df. Yasuhisa Irie (Kana), 2-1 (0-1, 1-0, 1-0)
H. SAKAMOTO ANNOUNCES MARRIAGE AT TRAINING CAMP
TOKYO (October 22) – Seven-time world champion Hitomi Sakamoto, taking time at a national team training camp, announced that she and a former high school teammate had earlier in the month registered their marriage.
Sakamoto revealed at a training session open to the media that she and Koji Ohara, both currently in the Japan Self Defense Forces, registered their marriage on October 10, the anniversary of the opening of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Sakamoto said her goal was still to win the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London as “Hitomi Sakamoto,” but revealed that Ohara was part of the reason she decided to return to competition earlier this year after retiring in 2008.
“He encourages me and does everything he can for me,” Sakamoto, adding with a chuckle “With wrestling, he is strict and always tells me 'That's no good!'”
“Still, I feel that our two families are together and this gives me all the more reason to do my best,” the reigning 48kg world champ added.
Sakamoto and Ohara were childhood friends growing up in Hachinohe, in northern Japan. They also wrestled for the club at the high school affiliate of Hachinohe Industrial University.
Ohara had been a member of the SDF wrestling club and finished third in freestyle at 74kg in the 2008 national championships. Ohara won last year's Shakaijin Open for non-student senior-level wrestlers, was named the outstanding wrestler and hung up his shoes. In April, he became a regular member of the Japanese SDF.
T. SUZUKI WINS 2ND SPORTS FESTIVAL FS CROWN
SAKURA, Chiba (October 2) – Tokyo police officer Takayuki Suzuki edged collegiate champion Sosuke Takatani to repeat as 74kg champion in the freestyle competition at the National Sports Festival.
Takao Isokawa, who was a winner in greco-roman a year ago, won his third straight title at 96kg while 55kg national champ Shinichi Yumoto moved up to 60kg and pinned former world bronze medalist Noriyuki Takatsuka for his first festival crown in four years.
In the schoolboys division, Yuki Takahashi (55kg), Ken Hosaka (60kg) and Koki Yamamoto (96kg) all won to claim their third high school freestyle titles of the year. Takahashi also won the national cadet crown and the Youth Olympics in Singapore this year.
Men's freestyle results
Senior finals
55kg – Naoki Tomioka (Nagano) df. Yasuhiro Morita (Yamaguchi), 2-1 (2-2x, 1-0, 1x-1)
60kg – Shinichi Yumoto (Saitama) df. Noriyuki Takatsuka (Tokyo) by fall, 2P=1:51
66kg – Takafumi Kojima (Yamaguchi) df. Kiyofumi Kanabuchi (Aomori) by fall, 1P=1:22
74kg – Takayuki Suzuki (Tokyo) df. Sosuke Takatani (Kyoto), 2-0 (1-0, 4-1)
84kg – Junki Monma (Akita) df. Satoru Yamamoto (Okayama), 2-1 (0-3, 3-0, 3-0)
96kg – Takao Isokawa (Yamaguchi) df. Kenzo Sakamoto (Saitama), 2-0 (4-0, 5-0)
120kg – Tsutomu Takabayashi (Okayama) df. Norihiro Sakurai (Niigata), 2-0 (2-0, 1-0)
Schoolboy winners
50kg – Taichi Takatani, Kyoto
55kg – Yuki Takahashi, Mie
60kg – Ryo Kuwabara, Shizuoka
66kg – Ken Hosaka, Saitama
74kg – Taiiku Shimada, Aomori
84kg – Ryo Shiraichi, Chiba
96kg – Koki Yamamoto, Saitama
120kg – Nobuyuki Uno, Shimane
AMANO REPEATS AS GR CHAMP AT NAT'L SPORTS FESTIVAL
SAKURA, Chiba (October 4) – Masayuki Amano repeated as National Sports Festival champion by winning the greco-roman title at 84kg, while wrestlers from Shizuoka won four titles overall in the greco-roman competition.
Saitama, with three champions in freestyle, held on for the overall team title and Emperor's Cup with 67 points, followed by next year's sports festival host Yamaguchi (59 points) and last year's Cup winner Ibaraki (56 points).
Katsutoshi Maekawa of Kasumigaura high school repeated as 120kg champion in the schoolboys division for Ibaraki, claiming his fifth national-level title of the year.
Greco-Roman
Senior finals
55kg – Ryo Minemura (Kanagawa) df. Tsubasa Ogata (Yamagata), 2-0 (2-0, 7-0)
60kg – Kohei Hasegawa (Shizuoka) df. Kazuma Kuramoto (Shiga), 2-1 (1-0, 0-3, 2-0)
66kg – Yuki Okamoto (Shizuoka) df. Shingo Shibata (Miyazaki), 2-1 (0-1, 1-1, 5-0)
74kg – Tsutomu Fujimura (Yamaguchi) df. Hiroki Iwasaki (Kagawa), 2-0 (1-0, 4-0)
84kg – Masayuki Amano (Fukuoka) df. Ryo Ito (Saitama), 2-0 (2-0, 1-0)
96kg – Ken Sogabe (Tokushima) df. Yuji Yamamoto (Tokyo), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
120kg – Nobuyoshi Arakida (Aomori) df. Yutaro Baba (Nagasaki), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
Schoolboy winners
50kg – Takuma Yamazaki, Shizuoka
55kg – Minoru Ota, Yamaguchi
60kg – Seiyo Inoue, Hyogo
66kg – Kenta Kawamura, Shizuoka
74kg – Kentaro Takizawa, Niigata
84kg – Ryuta Yonaha, Okinawa
96kg – Masaaki Shikiya, Okinawa
120kg – Katsutoshi Maekawa, Ibaraki
RESULTS, ALL-JAPAN WOMEN'S OPEN
MISHIMA, Shizuoka (October 10) – Results in the junior-senior and cadet divisions at the All-Japan Women's Open wrestling championships at Mishima municipal gymnasium:
Senior-junior – division
48kg – Nodoka Nishi, Waseda University
51kg – Minori Akeo, Int'l Pacific Rim University
55kg – Chiaki Arai, Waseda
59kg – Takako Saito, Japan Self Defense Forces
63kg – Yurika Ito, IPU
67kg – Haruka Yoshimoto, IPU
72kg – Ai Takamura, Sakai Girls high school (Osaka)
Cadets
40kg – Minori Hasegawa, Tokyo
43kg – Ayaka Tsuji, Osaka
46kg – Hikaru Aono, Shizuoka
49kg – Yu Miyahara, Tokyo
52kg – Yawara Kaneko, Gunma
56kg – Yui Sakano, Tokyo
60kg – Kanako Murata, Tokyo
65kg – Kiwa Sakamoto, Aichi
70kg – Yoshino Abe, Tokyo
IWAMIYA SNARES GR, FS DOUBLE AT WEST JAPAN STUDENT MEET
NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo (October 9-11) – Akihiko Iwamiya of Tokuyama University won heavyweight titles in freestyle and greco-roman at the West Japan Collegiate Wrestling Championships in Nishinomiya.
Meanwhile, Kosei Sato of Nihon Bunri University won the 84kg crown in greco-roman and was named the style's outstanding wrestler and Rei Kuwaki took home the outstanding wrestler award in freestyle after winning the 55kg title.
The individual category champions were:
Greco-roman
55kg – Yusuke Fujikawa, Tokuyama University
60kg – Tsuyoshi Masutani, Kansai University
66kg – Yoshihiro Terada, Nihon Bunri University
74kg - Oriki Tan, Tokuyama
84kg – Kosei Sato, NBU
96kg – Kento Yokoi, Chukyo Gakuin University
120kg – Akihiko Iwamiya , Tokuyama
Men's freestyle
55kg – Rei Kuwaki, CGU
60kg – Yuryo Kakutani, Ritsumeikan University
66kg – Arashi Nagao, Kinki University
74kg – Takayuki Murakami, Kansai
84kg – Mitsuhiro Kitanomiya, Momoyama Gakuin University
96kg – Yuji Fukui, Tenri University
120kg – Akihiko Iwamiya, Toku
Women's freestyle (only 67kg)
67kg – Chinami Tokumitsu, Toku
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