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By William May
（Japan Amateur Wrestling Federation, Public Information Committee：wmay52@hotmail.com）
TAKUSHOKU WINS COLLEGE FS CROWN WIN 4 CHAMPS
TOKYO (November 11-12) – Defending champion Takushoku University won at four categories and claimed its fourth overall collegiate freestyle national championship title at Komazawa Gymnasium in Tokyo.
Taichi Oka capped the Takushoku triumph by defeating collegiate open champion
Yuto Aizawa of Nihon University for the 120kg crown. Oka became the eighth
wrestler to win all four of college wrestling's major individual titles
in a single year, and the first to do it in three different weight categories.
Takushoku's other winners were Sosuke Takatani, who won for a third straight
year at 74kg, greco-roman specialist Yuji Okamoto (66kg) and first-time
winner Yasuhiro Suzuki (60kg).
Meanwhile, Manabu Sudo of Nihon won at 55kg after failing to make weight at the collegiate open in August, defeating open winner Mamoru Handa of Senshu in the semifinals.
Seiji Suzuki of Senshu won a repeat of the collegiate open final at 84kg and Waseda's Takashi Taketomi jumped two weight glasses to win the 96kg crown after taking the 74kg title in August.
The team title was Takushoku's third of the year after winning the national dual meet and the national greco-roman championships. Waseda, the East Japan university league champion, rebounded from a slow start on the first day to take the runner-up trophy, one-half point in front of Nihon.
Okamoto was named the tourney's outstanding wrestler.
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Results of individual medal matches:
55kg
F1 – Manabu Sudo (Nihon) df. Shinya Nagano (Ritsumeikan) by fall, 3P=1:58
F3 – Masaharu Kaji (Yamanashi Gakuin) df. Kosei Taguchi (Hosei) by fall, 2P=1:51
F3 – Kenichiro Okuda (NSSU) df. Mamoru Handa (Senshu) by fall, 2P=1:18
60kg
F1 – Yasuhiro Suzuki (Takushoku) df. Takahiro Inoue (NSSU), 2-1 (3-0, 6-8, 2-0)
F3 – Seiji Irie (Nihon) df. Kenjiro Nakasoe (Tokyo Agricultural), 2-0 (3-0, 1-0)
F3 – Kyosho Tsubaki (Chuo) df. Kazuhisa Irie (Toyo), 2-1 (4-0, 6-6x=last, 3-2)
66kg
F1 – Yuji Okamoto (Taku) df. Takuma Koishibara (NSSU), 2-0 (2-0, 2-0)
F3 – Kotaro Tanaka (Waseda) df. Kazuma Kamina (Ritsu), 2-1 (2-5, 6-1, 4-0)
F3 – Tatsuya Ando (Kokushikan) df. Ryu Aisawa (Meiji). 2-1 (7-2, 0-2, 2x-2=last)
74kg
F1 – Sosuke Takatani (Taku) df. Kohei Kitamura (Wa), 2-0 (4-0, 4-0)
F3 – Shotaro Hosoya (Nihon) df. Hiroyuki Uchida (Chukyo), 2-0 (6-0, 3-2)
F3 – Toshitaka Yamana (NSSU) df. Shinichi Nakai (Chuo), 2-0 (3-1, 7-1)
84kg
F1 – Seiji Suzuki (Sen) df. Takeshi Yamaguchi (Wa), 2-0 (1-0=2:05, 1-0)
F3 – Masayuki Amano (Chuo) df. Taishiro Kato (Meiji) by fall, 1P=0:27
F3 – Yuki Nagata (Nihon) df. Naoya Akakuma (Taku) by default
96kg
F1 – Takashi Taketomi (Wa) df. Kyohei Wakimoto (Ritsu), 2-1 (1-0, 0-3, 1-0)
F3 – Takahiro Baba (Sen) df. Yoshiki Sato (Koku) by fall, 1P=??
F3 – Tokuyama (Meiji) df. Yuji Fukui (Tenri), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
120kg
F1 – Taichi Oka (Taku) df. Yuto Aizawa (Nihon), 2-0 (5-0, 3x-3=big)
F3 – Koichi Tokinobu (NSSU) df. Ko Osaka (Wa), 2-0 (1-0, 4-0)
F3 – Takuya Masuda (YGU) df. Shogo Sakamoto (Toyo), 2-0 (4-0, 7-0)
Team scores
1. Takushoku, 53.5 points; 2. Waseda, 40.5; 3. Nihon, 40; 4. NSSU, 36; 5. Ritsumeikan, 23.5; 6. Senshu, 21.5
FILA SEMINAR FOR FEMALE WRESTLING COACHES HELD IN TOKYO
TOKYO (November 11-14) – FILA's advanced school for coaches of women's wrestling was held at the Japanese Olympic Committee's national training center complex in Tokyo.
A total of 34 coaches from around the world took part in the seminars, listening to lectures on coaching methods and theory as well as some practical tips on techniques from Japanese national team coaches Kazuhito Sakae and Shoko Yoshimura, among others.
On the opening day of the seminar, FILA representatives honored Japanese women's coach Shigeo Kinase with the prize as 2010 FILA coach of the year, following Japan's win at the world championships in Moscow.
COLLEGIATE DUALS CANCELED FROM 2011
TOKYO (November 23) – The All-Japan Collegiate Wrestling Federation decided to cancel the annual collegiate dual-meet championship from next year, pointing to the crowded schedule of wrestling events between August and November each year.
Federation officials also noted that it is becoming more difficult each year to reserve Tokyo's Komazawa Gymnasium, which traditionally hosts the collegiate duals each September.
The collegiate duals got its start in 1952 as a dual meet between the champions of the East Japan and West Japan university leagues. The format was changed in 1960 to allow more schools to take part in the championship.
MIDDLE SCHOOL INVITATIONAL FEATURES FINAL NAT'L CHAMPS
TOKYO (November 27-28) – The inaugural national middle school invitational tournament was held at Komazawa Gymnasium with a total of 262 boys and 63 girls taking part.
The tournament featured a number of champions from June's national middle championships, including a match-up between national champs Shinto Mizuno (Kyoto, 59kg) and Shota Shirai (Tokyo, 66kg) in the 73kg final. Mizuno of Amino middle school in Kyoto edged Shirai 2-1.
Mizuno was named the meet's outstanding wrestler and took home the Tokyo Governor's Cup.
Other national champs to win invitational crowns in the boys competition were Taishi Narikuni (Tokyo, 38kg), Koji Takeda (Saitama, 85kg) and Taira Sonoda (Shiga, 100kg).
Five national champs in the girls division won invitational titles, including Ayano Hanada (Tokyo, 57kg) who was named the girls outstanding wrestler.
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Boys winners
35kg – Tateo Inoue, Osaka
38kg – Taishi Narikuni, Tokyo
42kg – Toshihiro Hasegawa, Tokyo
47kg – Tanomu Maeda, Fukui
53kg – Kyota Ogura, Toyama
59kg – Kaito Okuda, Kanagawa
66kg – Takenobu Suzuki, Ibaraki
73kg – Shinto Mizuno, Kyoto
85kg – Koji Takeda, Saitama
100kg – Taira Sonoda, Shiga
Girls winners
34kg – Kiko Kawamura, Ibaraki
37kg – Kinatsu Kagada, Tokyo
40kg – Miyu Nemoto, Tochigi
44kg – Fubuki Sakagami, Chiba
48kg – Keiko Okamoto, Fukuoka
52kg – Rumi Yokose, Shizuoka
57kg – Ayano Hanada, Tokyo
70kg – Masako Furuichi, Tokyo
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