Kenichiro Fumita won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics, wrestling men's Greco-Roman style 60 kg class.

Kenichiro Fumita, who has won while being wary of his favorite "sledding". Although he lost at the end, he showed great growth.



"The ideal is to win by throwing a sledge, but I think I'm very cautious,"



said Fumita before the tournament. So far, I have consistently stuck to "sledding". The belief is that "throwing" is the true value of Greco-Roman style.



In particular, "sledding", which bends the back greatly and throws backwards, is said to be "the sharpest in the world" and has been beaten by wrestling leader Toshiro since he was a junior high school student. On the other hand, his specialty is widely known to foreigners, and it is no longer common sense to take "sliding measures" when fighting Fumita.



If you inadvertently move forward in a match against Fumita, the probability of being thrown increases, so many players went into a strategy to block the throw by pulling their hips wide and taking intervals.


From around 2017, Fumita said, "I felt the limits of my style." In order to break the shell, I began to polish the attack methods other than throwing.



One is to work on weight training and gain "power to move forward." If you push it in with more power than the opponent, you can get the opponent out of the field, and if you push it back against it, you can stop it by sledging.



We also put a lot of effort into ground fighting. If you keep pushing the opponent, it is highly likely that the opponent will be judged to be in a negative posture and will be able to enter a ground fighting posture called "parte position". The ground fighting "rolling" that rotates the opponent only for Fumita, who has a strong attraction, is very intense, and has been refined to the point where it can be said to be the "second special move" after the sledge throw.



"I want to put out all of myself and win a gold medal," this tournament. As expected, most of the opponents took their arms and pulled their hips to prevent them from throwing a sled, but Fumita did not panic and brought it to a ground fight and scored points by rolling and won. It went up.



Because of the image of "throwing", even if I didn't use the technique, it put a lot of pressure on the opponent and I didn't let him actively wrestle.


Although he lost in the final and couldn't get a gold medal, he showed great growth at the first Olympics.