Kokushikan University vs. Tokai University Saito, Kokushikan University, who wins the vice-captain match (photographed by Masato Suzuki)
◇25th ◇Final day ◇Tokyo/Nippon Budokan ◇Men
Ritsu Saito (4 years), who was the All Japan Championship champion in 2010 and has represented the world championship over 100 kg class for the second consecutive year, has fulfilled his long-cherished wish. Contributed to Kokushikan University’s first victory in 16 years in the traditional weight-free 7-person team competition. Last year, he got revenge in the final 3-0 against Tokai University, who lost in the national team, and prevented the tournament from winning the tournament for the 7th consecutive time. The heaviest star, aiming for the 2024 Paris Olympics, won the highest student title. Since 2007, when Satoshi Ishii and others were at the top, he led him to the top for the seventh time, and he cried with joy after resolving the trauma of “hell”. Meidai and Tenri University came in third.
Saito drew the best in Japan with his own points. The final appeared as a vice-captain (6th person) with a one-point lead. “Today’s correct answer is spirit,” with his fighting spirit at the forefront, he took the lead in the first 27 seconds. With 1 minute remaining, I strengthened the pressure with Musou’s kumite, and my opponent involuntarily performed a move and escaped. After winning by foul and confirming V, he clenched his right fist and shouted, “I’m really happy. If I didn’t win, I would have been cursed for the rest of my life.”
Last year when I was 3 years old, I was covered in humiliation. “I’m the sickest I’ve ever been in my life.” In the final, they played against Tokai University, the same team, and the main match was 1-1, so they went to the national team. Although he himself was out, Sanshiro Murao (23rd World Championship 90kg class 2nd place, current JES group), who is 65kg lighter than him and is one year older than him, after a deadly fight of 16 minutes and 18 seconds in extra time, in a ground fight. I lost one.
Two months before that, the man who had won the all-Japan all-Japan championship at the age of 20 at the age of 20 and achieved the first-ever parent-child V with his father, a two-time Olympic champion, was two classes lower than him, even though he was the same senior on the national team. I lost to Murao. “From heaven, the bottom. Days of hell. Under heavy pressure, I was helped by my friends, and the things that had accumulated disappeared in an instant,” he said, freeing himself from the curse.
It was a real wish. After a year of tears, I cried tears of joy when I got revenge on Tokai University, who had won six consecutive victories in my final year. In the meantime, he made use of his experience of competing with the monster Liner, and contributed to the team’s first victory in 16 years with 3 wins and 1 draw as an individual. “I want to make a leap to Paris,” said Saito, who was overwhelmed with emotion. At the center of the sacred place, Nippon Budokan, the body with a registered weight of 165 kg slightly floated in the air three times.[Jun Kinoshita]
2023-06-26 13:10:38
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