Otokuro is confident of winning the World Championship for Wrestling on August 26, 16:20
Men's freestyle Japan camp for the wrestling world championship to be held next month was unveiled, and last year's world champion, 20-year-old Takuto Otoguro said, “I'm getting better. "I was confident of winning the championship."
Wrestling, men's freestyle 65km class Otoguro, who won the world championship last year at the age of 19 years and 10 months, became the youngest world champion in Japan, and is expected to win a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
If Otoguro wins a medal at the World Championship in Kazakhstan next month, he will be selected as the Tokyo Olympics representative.
Otoguro participated in a representative training camp held in Tokyo, attacked one after another from the tackle that was riding at the speed of sparring, or quickly fouled the opponent's tackle and returned points to gain points I was showing a certain movement.
Otoguro had been in a state of insufficiency, such as hurting his legs around March, but now that he is recovering, he seems to be in good condition with occasional smiles. It was.
Otoguro said, “I feel better and I can move. I feel that it is fun to do wrestling and I feel that there is momentum myself.”
For the world championship: “I want to have fun because I think that if you concentrate carefully one game at a time, you can win as a result. I think that it has been researched, but I only wrestling myself. "I was confident of winning the championship."