ASAKURA, GOIZUKA WIN 8TH TITLES AT JAPAN MASTERS

TOKYO (January 16) – Former world champ Toshio Asakura and Satoru Goizuka each won their eighth titles at the 10th annual Japan Masters wrestling championships.

Asakura, competing in the 51- to 55-year-old division, took the 63kg title for his sixth straight masters win and eighth overall while Goizuka won at 69kg in the same division at the Olympic Memorial Youth Center in central Tokyo.

In the division for wrestlers 66 years old and older, Katsutoshi Yonemitsu renewed his record as the oldest competitor in the meet, stepping onto the mats at 85 years old and claiming the 69kg crown uncontested.