The World Judo Championships kicked off in Hungary on the 6th, and Natsumi Tsunoda won the first gold medal in the women's 48-kilometer class by winning the final between Japanese players with Wakana Koga.
The World Judo Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary, at an unusual time, more than a month before the opening of the Tokyo Games, due to the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics.
Japanese national team players do not participate, but young players are on the table.
On the 6th, the first day of the tournament, two classes were held for both men and women, and in the women's 48 kg class, Tsunoda, who won the silver medal in the 52 kg class of the 2017 World Championship, changed the class and participated in three games from the first match. In each case, I won one with my favorite sleeping technique, "Ude hishigi cross compaction".
In the semi-final, Kosovo's Krasnichi, who ranked first in the world ranking, took two waza-ari with a tomoe nage and won with "one combined waza-ari".
On the other hand, Koga, a 19-year-old second-year college student, won the world championship for the first time, winning five games from the first round with his ground fighting and Osotogari, which he is good at, and advanced to the final.
In the final, which was a match between Japanese players, Tsunoda attacked from the beginning and took away the waza-ari by tomoe nage.
After that, Kakuda continued to attack by throwing his back, and when he had less than one minute left, he took away the waza-ari again.
Tsunoda won the "one match technique" and won the first gold medal in the world championship.
On the other hand, in the men's 60 kg class, Ryuju Nagayama, who won the bronze medal at the world championship in Otoshi (19), was eliminated in the third round, and Koga, the second son of Toshihiko Koga, who died in March, participated for the first time. Genki lost in the second round of the first round.