The All Japan Championship, which will determine Japan's best wrestling team for the Paris Olympics in two years' time, began on the 22nd, and Sosuke Takatani, who has participated in the Olympics for three consecutive years, won the title for the 12th consecutive year in four categories. rice field.
The All Japan Wrestling Championships is one of the qualifying events for next year's World Championships, and is an important event that will affect the selection for the Paris Olympics two years from now.
The tournament started today at Komazawa Gymnasium in Tokyo with a schedule of 4 days, and on the 22nd of the first day, 12 weight classes were held for both men and women.
Of these, 33-year-old Takaya, who participated in three consecutive Olympics until last year's Tokyo Games, advanced to the final in the men's freestyle 92 kg class, which is not an Olympic class.
The final was against 18-year-old first-year college student Arashi Yoshida, and Takatani took the first point by spinning his opponent's body, then won the point battle to win the championship with a score of 12 to 8.
Takaya won this class for the third time in a row, and since 2010 has won 12 years in a row across four classes.
Her 12th straight victory tied Kyoko Hamaguchi, who won the bronze medal in two consecutive Olympics, for the second place in the all-time men's and women's history.
In the women's 68 kg class, 20-year-old Ami Ishii, who won the silver medal in this class at the World Championships this year, and Miwa Morikawa, who won the gold medal in the 65 kg class at the World Championships, won the final on the 23rd. play against
The competition will run until the 25th of this month.