INABA WINS FS 55KG TITLE, NAMED OW AT MEIJI CUP INVITATIONAL
TOKYO (June 16-17) – Yasuhiro Inaba racked up three wins for the 55kg crown in men’s freestyle and was named the outstanding wrestler of the Meiji Cup national invitational tournament.
In addition to 2010 world bronze medal winner Inaba, six collegiate champions made their mark by winning their first invitational titles in greco-roman and men’s freestyle at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo.
Masaru Ikeda, a second-year student at Nihon University, stopped NU grad and 2006 world bronze medalist Noriyuki Takazuka for the 60kg crown and was named the outstanding wrestler of the men’s freestyle competition.
In greco-roman, Tsubasa Ogata, who was a bronze medalist in the All-Japan meet in December, won at 55kg in greco-roman and earned OW honors for the classic style.
Asia bronze medal winner Eri Tosaka of Shigakkan University won the 48kg title and the women’s outstanding wrestler award.
Risako Kawai won the 51kg title and edged closer to joining the women’s national team for the world championships this fall in Canada and becoming the first daughter of a former world team member to also go to the world meet.
Kawai’s mother, formerly Hatsue Kotaki, wrestled at 53kg in the 1989 world championships in Martigny, Switerzerland.
Greco-roman
55kg – Tsubasa Ogata df. Shota Tanokura, 2-1 (0-2, 1-0), 3-0)
60kg – Ryo Minemura df. Yoshitaka Kido, 2-1 (1-1x, 2-0, 5-0)
66kg – Hideyuki Otoizumi df. Takuya Tomizuka by fall, 3=0:36 (0-2, 3-0, F5-1)
74kg – Hiroyuki Shimizu df. Noritomo Eto, 2-1 (0-2, 2-0, 2-0)
84kg – Masayuki Amano df. Taichi Oka by fall, 2P=1:58 (0-1, F4-0)
96kg – Ko Osaka df. Takuma Arizono, 2-1 (4-0, 0-1, 1-0)
120kg – Atsushi Nakamura df. Katsutoshi Kanazawa, 2-0 (2-1, 1-0)
Men’ freestyle
55kg – Yasuhiro Inaba df. Yasuhiro Morita, 2-0 (3-0, 6-0=1:09)
60kg – Masaru Ikeda df. Noriyuki Takazuka, 2-1 (1-3, 3-0, 1-0=2:02)
66kg – Kotaro Tanaka df. Tomotsugu Ishida, 2-1 (0-1, 1-0=2:02, 1-0=2:03)
74kg – Takafumi Kojima df. Futoshi Yokoyama, 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
84kg – Shinya Matsumoto df. Takeshi Yamaguchi, 2-0 (1-0=2:02, 1x-1)
96kg – Koki Yamamoto df. Shinichi Nakai, 2-0 (2-1, 3-0)
120kg – Tomoyuki Oka df. Yutaro Baba, 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
Women’s freestyle
48kg – Eri Tosaka df. Yuka Yago, 2-0 (3-1, 2-0)
51kg – Risako Kawai df. Nanami Irie, 2-0 (1-0, 3-0)
55kg – Chiho Hamada df. Katsuki Sakagami, 2-1 (1-0, 0-1, 1-0=2:09)
59kg – Kayoko Shimada df. Ayaka Ito by fall, 3P=1:07 (0-3=2:18, 1-0, F4-0)
63kg – Kayoko Kudo df. Rio Watari, 2-0, (1x-1, 4-2)
67kg – Yoshiko Inoue df. Sara Dosho, 2-1 (1-0=2:02, 0-1=2:02, 1-0=2:06)
72kg – Hiroe Suzuki df. Mami Shinkai, 2-1 (0-1=2:03, 1-0=2:03, 1-0=2:04)
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