TANAKA 3RD DAN KOLOV INT’L IN BULGARIA

BOURGAS, Bulgaria (February 25-27) – Japanese student champion Kotaro Tanaka rebounded from a loss in the 66kg semifinals to win a bronze medal in Dan Kolov International men's freestyle tournament.

Tanaka of Waseda University dropped a 1-2 decision to Leonid Bazan (BUL), formerly a world student bronze medalist for Ukraine, in the semifinals but eased past Polish veteran Adam Blok in the consolation final for Japan's only medal in the three-day competition.

Meanwhile, in the Nikola Petrov International greco-roman tourney, Yuji Okamoto lost to Georgian Carpen (ROU) in his opening match, but came back with a pair of wins to advance to the bronze medal match. The Takushoku ace, however, fell to Antoni Mamageishvili (GEO), 1-2, and had to settle for fifth place.

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Men's freestyle (Dan Kolov)
55kg – HANDA, Mamoru (8th, 23 entries)
R1 – df. Hakan Parlar (TUR) by fall, 3P=1:37 (0-1, 1-1, F)
R2 – lost to Ziya Daylak (TUR), 1-2 (1-3, 7-2, 3-4)

60kg – ISHIDA, Tomotsugu (14th, 18 entries)
R1 – lost to Ismail Redzhep (BUL), 0-3 (0-2, 0-1)

66kg – TANAKA, Kotaro (3rd, 11 entries)
R1 – df. Servet Coskun (TUR), 2-1 (2-3, 1-0, 1-0)
R2 – df. Raiko Trujillo (ESP), 2-0 (2-0, 2-0)
SF – lost to Leonid Bazan (BUL), 1-2 (0-1, 2-0, 0-2)
F3 – df. Adam Blok (POL), 2-0 (2-0, 2-0)

74kg – KARAMUSHIZAWA, Ken (20th, 27 entries)
R1 – lost to Miroslav Kirov (BUL), 0-2 (1-2, 0-3)

74kg – TAKATANI, Sosuke (10th, 27 entries)
R1 – df. Eljan Usubzade (AZE), 2-1 (0-6, 3-0, 3-1)
R2 – lost to Milan Blagoev (BUL), 1-2 (2-2, 2-0, 2-7)

84kg – SUZUKI, Seiji (14th, 23 entries)
R1 – lost to Maciej Balawender (POL), 1-2 (0-1, 1-1, 0-3)
c1 – lost to Stefan Cantu (MDA) by fall, 3P=0:30 (0-2, 7-5, F0-2)

84kg – YAMAGUCHI, Takeshi (23rd, 23 entries)
R1 – lost to Ilya Khamikoyev (AZE) by TF, 0-2 (0-6, 0-7)

96kg – WAKIMOTO, Kyohei (8th, 14 entries)
R1 – lost to Nicolai Ceban (MDA) by TF, 0-2 (0-9, 0-7)
c1 – lost to Multu Muren (TUR), 0-2 (0-6,0-3)

120kg – OKA, Tomoyuki (5th, 10 entries)
R1 – lost to Petro Ralchev (UKR), 0-2 (0-6, 2-7)
F3 – lost to Jose Cuba (ESP), 0-2 (0-2, 0-6)

Greco-roman (Nikola Petrov)
55kg – KAJI, Masaharu (8th, 12 entries)
R1 – los tot Victor Ciobanu (MDA), 1-2 (0-1, 2-0, 0-2)

60kg – UCHIMURA, Yuta (13th, 16 entries)
R1 – lost to Patrick Stadelmann (SUI), 1-2 (0-3, 2-2, 0-1)

66kg – OKAMOTO, Yuji (5th, 24 entries)
R1 – lost to Georgian Carpen (ROU), 1-2 (0-5, 2-0, 2-3)
c1 – df. Serir Mohamed (ALG), 2-0 (3-0, 1-0)
c2 – df. Pascal Strebel (SUI)m 2-1 (1-2, 4-0, 5-1)
F3 – lost to Anton Mamageishvili (GEO), 1-2 (0-1, 2-0, 0-2)

74kg – NAKAI, Shinichi (17th, 24 entries)
R1 – lost to Ilaylo Saykov (BUL), 1-2 (0-1, 2-1, 0-1)

84kg – AMANO, Masayuki (16th, 16 entries)
R1 – lost to Hristo Marinov (BUL), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
c1 – lost to Nikolay Bayriakov (BUL), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)

96kg – ARIZONO, Takuma (13th, 15 entries)
R1 – lost to Alexuc Alin (ROU), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)