Japan’s Tsugumi Sakurai recorded a dominant 10-0 technical fall win over Germany’s Nina Hemmer within the girls’s 55-kilogram remaining on Tuesday, capturing a gold medal in her freestyle wrestling senior world championships debut.
The 20-year-old Ikuei College scholar, who gained the 55-kg title ultimately yr’s nationwide championships and this yr’s nationwide invitational, wanted simply 2 minutes and eight seconds to safe Japan’s first victory on the Jordal Amfi area in Oslo.
“I used to be in a position to get on the mat with confidence, because of all of the assist I acquired that allowed me to do effectively right here,” Sakurai stated.
“There have been wrestlers who appeared within the Olympics and people who have good outcomes, and I used to be in a position to go head-to-head towards them and beat them. It provides me confidence,” she stated.
Within the girls’s 62-kg, 18-year-old Nonoka Ozaki defeated Ukrainian Ilona Prokopevniuk 12-0 for bronze.
No wrestlers who represented Japan on the Tokyo Olympics are competing within the Oct. 2-10 occasion held in Norway’s capital.
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