JAPAN NOTCHES ONLY 2 WINS ON OPENING DAY OF ASIA JR C’SHIPS

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JAKARTA (June 9) – Japanese wrestlers could only notch two wins and had to settle for a pair of fifth-place finishes in greco-roman on the opening day of the Asian junior wrestling championships.

Hiroki Kimura and Jun Saito, both of the Nippon Sports Sciences University, opened with wins at 55kg and 60kg, respectively but could advance no further. Meanwhile, Akira Osaka (96kg) of Waseda University and Shogo Sakamoto (120kg) of Toyo University finished in fifth place despite a pair of losses each.

Greco-roman
50kg – MIZUNO, Hayate (did not place, 9 entries)
R1 – lost to Navneet (IND), 0-2 (0-3, 0-6)

55kg – KIMURA, Hiroki (dnp, 13 entries)
R1 – df. Wang Qiaozhi (CHN), 2-0 (6-0, 3-0)
R2 – lost to Manoj (IND), 1-2 (1-1, 0-4, 0-3)

60kg – SAITO, Jun (dnp, 10 entries)
R1 – df. Muhammi Ahmadaliev (UZB), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
R2 – lost to Roman Tsarev (KGZ), 0-2 (0-1, 0-7)

66kg – TAKAI, Shinnosuke (dnp, 13 entries)
R1 – lost to Askhat Zhanbirov (KAZ), 0-2 (0-4, 0-7)

74kg – SHIRAGA, Ryo (dnp, 9 entries)
R1 – lost to Dilshodjon Turdiev (UZB), 0-2 (0-2, 0-2)
c1 – lost to Douran Yaylimov (TKM), 0-2 (0-2, 0-2)

84kg – OKUDA, Keisuke (dnp, 14 entries)
R1 – lost to Cui Chengzhi (CHN), 0-2 (0-2,, 0-3)

96kg – OSAKA, Akira (5th, 10 entries)
R1 – lost to Kim Bong-Soo (KOR), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
F3 – lost to Mehrdad Bayandor (IRI), 0-2 (0-1, 0-6)

120kg – SAKAMOTO, Shogo (5th, 9 entries)
R1 – lost to Yashare (IND), 0-2 (0-1, 0-3)
F3 – lost to Kambar Zhorobekov (KGZ), 0-2 (0-1, 0-3)