OLYMPICS/ Golds from Higuchi and Sakurai fuel Japan's dominance on mat_cl決勝
时间:2024-09-20 06:51:59 出处:探検する阅读(143)
OLYMPICS/ Golds from Higuchi and Sakurai fuel Japan's dominance on mat
REUTERS
August 10,cl決勝 2024 at 14:29 JST
- Share
- Tweet list
Tsugumi Sakurai of Japan celebrates winning gold in the match against Anastasia Nichita of Moldova in women's freestyle 57kg final at Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Aug. 9. (REUTERS)
PARIS--Powerhouse Japan claimed two of Friday's three freestyle wrestling gold medals at the Paris Olympics through Rei Higuchi and Tsugumi Sakurai to maintain their dominance on the mat at the Champ de Mars Arena.
Bulgaria's Magomed Ramazanov won the men's 86kg gold against an injured Hassan Yazdani of Iran, who settled for silver.
Higuchi won the 57kg freestyle gold with a 4-2 win against American Spencer Lee to banish memories of missing the home Olympics in Tokyo three years ago after he was found to be overweight in a qualifying tournament.
The Rio Olympics silver medalist began slowly as Lee scored a couple of step-outs for a 2-0 lead in the first period.
Higuchi began the second period with a wild scramble and levelled it 2-2 before scoring two more points in the dying seconds to land the gold.
"I knew Spencer for many years," Higuchi said of his opponent.
"I knew that he was very strong. But I studied his movements, so I was able to win."
India's Aman Sehrawat and Gulomjon Abdullaev of Uzbekistan took bronze.
The men's 86kg final was robbed of a proper contest despite a strong cast.
Yazdani, who won the 74kg gold in Rio and the 86kg silver in Tokyo, went into the bout as the favorite. But an arm injury made it nearly impossible for him to carry on and the Iranian needed a couple of injury timeouts before conceding defeat with 25 seconds left.
Ramazanov had picked up two turns for a 7-1 lead in the second period when his opponent surrendered in pain.
"It was hard for him, but he was a great fighter with his other arm," Ramazanov said of his opponent.
Three-time world champion Sakurai won the 57kg gold with a 6-0 win against Anastasia Nichita of Moldova, who settled for silver.
The 22-year-old Japanese led 4-0 after two take-downs in the first period and landed another in the second to seal her victory.
"It was very tough for all of us, and for me as well," the Japanese said.
"But I was thinking only about the gold medal, and that's what I fought for."
Helen Maroulis, who won a gold at the Rio Olympics, claimed her second Olympics bronze.
Japan now have five gold medals - Iran, Bulgaria and the U.S. are next on two each - along with two bronze.
猜你喜欢
- 【元大関・琴風の目】大の里に感じた少しの異変 それでもV確率は100%に限りなく近い90%だ
- 斎藤元彦兵庫県知事“身内”から辞職を迫られるも改めて続投表明…元上司・吉村大阪府知事は“激変”に戸惑い
- 川島海荷が「ラヴィット!」初登場で「がち?」衝撃事実にネット沸く「びびり倒している」
- 日テレドラマ「侵入者達の晩餐」がアジアの映像作品で最優秀賞…バラエティー「バレたら―」も
- 「紅しょうが」熊元プロレス、コロナ禍でラブホテルデートを提案も返ってきた衝撃の一言明かす
- 「まだもっと強くなれる」車いすテニス女子単複2冠・上地結衣が帰国 28年ロスへ「何をしたいのか考えたい」
- 【愛チャンピオンS】エイダン・オブライエン調教師、ディープインパクト産駒オーギュストロダンなど強力布陣で6連覇狙う
- 田中碧、10日バーレーン戦で26歳バースデー弾狙う「勝って点を取れれば」 昨年9月ドイツ戦も得点
- ラグビー日本代表、PNC決勝フィジー戦へ 準決勝から先発変更なし、ジョーンズHC「我々から戦いに挑みにいく」