Tokyo Olympics last time gold soil Shara is nominated wrestling girls March 8 13:35

The wrestling Tokyo Olympics final match was held, and a gold medalist of the Rio de Janeiro Championships, Sara Tochi Shara, was selected as the national team at the women's 68 kg class. Keisuke Otoguro has been nominated for the men's freestyle 74kg class.

Wrestling's final match for the Tokyo Olympics was held on August 8 at the National Training Center in Kita-ku, Tokyo, with no audience or press to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.

In the women's 68kg class, gold medalist and Tochi players from the Rio de Janeiro tournament and Miwa Morikawa, who won the All Japan Championship last December to win the title.

In the latter half of the year, Dochi got a 1-0 lead, and while he was pushed by his opponent, he turned back well and took points, widening his lead to 3: 0.

Tsuchiya managed to escape the opponent's counterattack and escaped 3-1.
He is aiming for consecutive victories in his second participation in the two Olympic Games.

Overcoming injuries

The soil athlete decided to be the representative is 25 years old from Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture.
I was instructed in the wrestling class of Saori Yoshida's father since elementary school and honed a powerful tackle.

He progressed to Shigakkan University, a powerful player in Aichi Prefecture with Yoshida-san, and developed his skills even further. In the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, he won the gold medal by deciding a reversal near the end of the race.

He won the world championship the following year, but suffered injuries such as dislocation of the left shoulder, and continued to rehabilitate in April with a bone transplant operation.

After the surgery, there was a time when the original aggressive wrestling was hiding due to fear of injury, but it was overcome by steady training such as increasing strength training and tackle patterns, and there is momentum in the national final battle He beat his opponent and grabbed his second Olympic entry.

Men's Keisuke Otoguro is appointed as representative

In the men's freestyle 74kg class, last year's All Japan Champion Otoguro and last year's World Championship fifth place Mao Okui played against each other.

In the second half of Otoguro's lead with a one-point lead, he extended his lead by turning to the opponent's back and winning the Olympics for the first time by winning 5: 2.

Otoguro was a younger brother and a 65-kilometer classmate Takuto was appointed as a brother.

Brothers go to the Tokyo Olympics

Keisuke Otoguro was a 23-year-old from Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture. With his speed and good kumite, he wrestled with his younger brother Takuto from an early age and left the hometown to join the JOC Elite Academy when he was a sophomore in junior high school.

During college, he won the All Japan Championship twice and made his first appearance in the World Championships in 2018, and has been one of the top players in medium-weight Japan.

In December of last year, he won his third championship at the All-Japan Championship, and in the Olympics' final match, he beat Mao Okui, who finished 5th in the World Championships last year, and his brother Takuto, his brother, won the Olympics. I decided.