Shohei Yabiku, a 77-kilometer-class wrestling men's Greco-Roman style player at the Tokyo Olympics, won the bronze medal by winning the bronze medal in the 3rd place playoff held on the 3rd.

In the men's Greco-Roman style, it became the heaviest medal among Japanese players.


The characteristic is "muddy wrestling", and at first glance, it is a belief that even if it is sober, it should be the last to win, but what I showed at the last minute of the Tokyo Games was a flashy wrestling that was reversed with a big skill.

It can be muddy

"Unlike Kenichiro (Fumita), I'm not the type who can really cut the throwing technique. In any form, I should be one point higher at the end." As



he said, Yahihisa is never flashy. I don't wrestle.

Unlike Kenichiro Fumita, who both participated in the Olympics and won the silver medal, he does not get points more and more by throwing techniques, but he applies pressure to scrape the opponent's stamina and accumulate points little by little, so to speak, "professional preference" "is.



Yahihisa has been refining this way of fighting in order to fight in the world.



"I've been digging into the wrestling that comes forward. I want to stick to my wrestling because it can be muddy."

My father's teaching is "go ahead"

For Yahihisa, the Olympics were also a dream for two generations of parents and children.


His father, Yasushi, was a Greco-Roman style all-Japan champion, but he missed the Olympics one step further.

It is said that he grew up being told by the people around him that he would go instead of his father, and that he naturally began to aim for the Olympics.

What I learned from such a father was "muddy wrestling."



"Go ahead for the time being. Go ahead about the second, go ahead and say it all the time."



Wrestling that goes forward and puts pressure requires stamina.

Yahihisa has strengthened his physical strength in order to stick to this way of fighting.


The most eye-catching are the two log-like thighs.


The weight that can be lifted by squats is as much as 200 kg, and the thick lower body inherited from his father is the driving force of the pressure that comes forward.


Yahihisa showed solid confidence for the Olympics.



"I think that the stamina that keeps coming forward is the best in this class, so I will beat the opponent until the last 1 second and I will win."

Because the big skill came out before

Wrestling that goes forward as declared on the stage of the Olympic Games.


He was temporarily led in the first match, but in the second half, he scored points from an opponent who clearly lost stamina and won his first Olympic victory in a reversal.

In the second round, he continued to play against Hungarian players, and although he lost in a close battle, he suffered until the end.

This opponent won a gold medal.



And the 3rd place playoff.


This match was also led by 0-3 in the first half, but it was a highlight from here.


In the second half, the opponent who got sick in the second half took a negative posture, and the posture of the advantageous sleeping technique called "parte position".

When he lifted the opponent from there, he daringly knocked him off his back.

It turned around with a big skill that took 5 points at a stretch and decided the game.


Yahihisa won the bronze medal by showing "flashy wrestling" at the very end.

However, this was also because, as my father taught me, I patiently continued to move forward and reduced the stamina of my opponent.


In the men's Greco-Roman style, in 1968, he surpassed Muneji Munemura, who won the gold medal in the 70 kg class of the Mexico tournament, and added the feat of being the heaviest medal.

The dream is not over yet

After winning the medal, Yahihisa's face was radiant.



"I really want to be a big skill like Kenichiro, and I want to show the charm of wrestling, so I'm really glad that I was able to put it out at the end," he said.



When I asked my father what to report, he replied:



"I took it for the time being. I want to tell you that I want to do my best to aim for the gold medal next time."



Yahihisa who pierced the wrestling of his "muddy" father on the big stage.



The dream of two generations of parents and children is not over yet.