Wrestling All Japan Championship Women's 53kg class Akari Fujinami wins for the second time in a row

The All Japan Championship, which decides the best wrestling in Japan, was held in Tokyo, and Akari Fujinami, an 18-year-old third-year high school student who won the World Championship in October, won the championship for the second time in a row.

The All Japan Wrestling Championship was held at the Komazawa Gymnasium in Tokyo for four days until the 19th.

The athletes who won the medals at the Tokyo Olympics did not participate in the tournament, but on the 19th, a ceremony was held in which the medalists participated, and the sisters of Risako Kawai and Yukako who all won the gold medal will support. I said thank you words.

In the competition, six classes for men and women were held on the 19th, of which the women's 53 kg class was ranked second in the world championships with Fujinami, an 18-year-old third-year high school student who won the world championship for the first time in October. Nanami Irie who became a match.

Fujinami accumulated points with quick tackles that made use of his long limbs and attacks that broke with kumite and took the back of the opponent, winning 8 to 2 and achieving the second straight victory.

In the women's 50 kg class, 21-year-old Remina Yoshimoto, who won the world championship, also achieved the second straight victory.

In the men's freestyle 92 kg class, Sosuke Takatani, who was the only representative of the Tokyo Olympics to participate in this tournament, won the championship for 11 consecutive years across four classes.

Fujinami "I'm excited about what will happen in Paris three years from now."

Akari Fujinami, who won the women's 53 kg class for the second time in a row, said, "I'm glad I was able to win the championship, but there were some miscellaneous parts in the content of the match, such as missing points and conceding points. I have to do it. "

And for the Paris Olympics three years later, "I have longed for the Olympics since I was little, and when I saw the Tokyo Olympics, I strongly wanted to be that. I want to do my best to be active in Paris, three years later. I'm excited about what's going on after that. "