The All-Japan Judo Championship, which decides the best in Japan by weight indiscriminately, was held, and last year, the runner-up, Hyōga Ota, won the championship for the first time.
The All Japan Championship, which decides the best judo boys in Japan, is held in April every year, but due to the influence of the new coronavirus, it was postponed to December following last year and held at the Kodokan in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo without spectators. I did.
The representative athletes of the Tokyo Olympics did not participate in the tournament, and more than 40 athletes, including the athletes who ranked high in the preliminary rounds in each district and the athletes who participated in the recommendation, competed for the championship in the weight indiscriminate tournament.
Of these, last year, runner-up Ota won three games in a row from the second round of the first round to the quarter-finals, and in the semi-finals, the opponent received three instructions and lost the foul and won, continuing from last year. And advanced to the final.
The final was the same as last year, with the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, a 100-kilometer bronze medalist, and Ryunosuke Haga.
The match was a fierce battle for kumite, so it was a development where the techniques were set up, but the match time of 4 minutes could not be settled and it was extended.
Then, two minutes after the extension, Ota took away the waza-ari by Kosoto Gari and won the championship for the first time.
24-year-old Ota said, "I challenged the final with the feeling that I would definitely win. I have been frustrated for the past year, but I felt that it was rewarded. It was a momentum. "