OGATA, OTOIZUMI WIN BRONZE MEDALS IN DAVE SCHULTZ GRECO-ROMAN
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (January 31) – All-Japan runners-up Tsukasa Ogata and Hideyuki Otoizumi earned bronze medals in the greco-roman competition on the opening day of the Dave Schultz Memorial international wrestling tournament.
Ogata rebounded from a semifinals loss to Nursultan Kalmurzaev (KAZ) at 55kg with a pair of wins, including a 2-0 (1-0, 7-0) triumph over 2011 Commonwealth Games champion Manoj Kumar (IND), for the bronze medal.
At 66kg, Otoizumi also fell in the semifinals to Asia champion Yerbol Konrytov (KAZ), but defeated two London Olympians, Luis Liendo (VEN) and Edgaras Venckaitis (LTU), for the bronze medal.
Meanwhile, newly crowned national champion Kazuma Kuramoto also advanced to the semifinals at 60kg, but was defeated by Almat Kebispayev (KAZ), a fifth-place finisher at last summer's Olympic Games. Kuramoto was then tripped up in the consolation semifinals by Pan American Games runner-up Joe Betterman (USA).
National champ Shori Maekawa notched a pair of wins in the consolation bracket at 120kg but fell short of the medals podium following a loss to 2008 Olympic Games bronze medalist Mindaugas Mizgaitis (LTU) in the consolation semifinals.
55kg – OGATA, Tsubasa (3rd, 8 entries)
R1 – df. Ian Moser (USA), 2-0 (1-1, 3-0)
SF – lost to Nursultan Kalmurzaev (KAZ), 0-2 (0-2, 0-1)
c1 – df. Nathan Engel (USA), 2-1 (0-3, 4-3, 1-0)
F3 – df. Manoj Kumar (IND), 2-0 (1-0, 7-0)
60kg – KURAMOTO, Kazuma (did not place, 18 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Yerbol Kikbayev (KAZ), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
R3 – df. Wang Hui (CHN) by default
SF – lost to Almat Kebispayev (KAZ), 0-2 (0-6, 0-1)
c1 – lost to Joseph Betterman (USA), 1-2 (1-0, 0-2, 1-2)
60kg – IBA, Taichi (dnp, 18 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – lost to Wan Feihu (CHN), 0-2 (0-2, 0-3)
c1 – lost to Marco Lara (USA) by fall, 2P=1:49 (0-2, F)
66kg – OTOIZUMI, Hideyuki (3rd, 14 entries)
R1 – df. Johnathon Bozarth (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 3-0)
R2 – df. Askhat Zhanbirov (KAZ), 2-1 (0-2, 2-0, 3-1)
SF – lost to Yerbol Konrytov (KAZ), 0-2 (0-2, 0-1)
c1 – df. Luis Liendo (VEN), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
F3 – df. Edgaras Venckaitis (LTU), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
66kg – UOZUMI, Shogo (dnp, 14 entries)
R1 – df. Devin Scott (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 1-0)
R2 – df. Luis Liendo (VEN) by fall, 1P=2:00
SF – lost to Wang Shihu (CHN) by TF, 0-2 (0-7, 0-8)
c1 – lost to Edgaras Venckaitis (LTU), 0-2 (2-2, 0-1)
74kg – SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki (dnp, 18 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – df. Keith Barkers (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
R3 – lost to Andrew Bisek (USA), 0-2 (0-1, 0-2)
c1 – df. Bo Beckman (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 1-0)
c2 – lost to Jon Anderson (USA) by fall, 2P=0:44 (2-0, F)
74kg – KOMORI, Daisuke (dnp, 18 entries)
R1 – lost to Jon Anderson (USA), 1-2 (1-0, 1-3, 0-6)
c1 – bye
c2 – lost to Bogdan Kourinnor (SWE), 0-2 (0-2, 0-1)
84kg – AMANO, Masayuki (dnp, 13 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – lost to Danyal Gajiyev (KAZ), 1-2 (0-1, 1-0, 0-1)
c1 – df. Harpeet Singh (IND), 2-1 (0-1, 1-0, 1-0)
c2 – lost to Nursultan Tursynov (KAZ), 2-1 (1-1, 0-3, 0-1)
84kg – SUZUKI, Yuki (dnp, 13 entries)
R1 – df. Jake Julian (USA), 2-0 (2-0, 6-0)
R2 – lost to Alkhazur Ozdiyev (KAZ), 0-2 (0-2, 0-1)
c1 – df. Lee Wildes (USA), 2-1 (0-6, 6-0, 1-0)
c2 – lost to Zahiti Fisnik (SWE), 0-2 (0-1, 0-7)
96kg – YAMAMOTO, Yusuke (dnp, 16 entries)
R1 – lost to Marcus Finau (USA) by fall, 1P=1:53
c1 – lost to Patrick Carey (USA), 1-2 (1-0, 0-2, 0-3)
96kg – OSAKA, Akira
R1 – df.Brandon Rivera (USA), 2-1 (0-2, 4-0, 2-0)
R2 – lost to Caylor Williams (USA), 0-2 (0-2, 0-1)
c1 – lost to Charles Fish (USA), 0-2 (0-2, 0-1)
120kg – MAEKAWA, Shori (dnp, 11 entries)
R1 – bye
R2 – lost to Robby Smith (USA) by fall, 1P=1:51
c1 – df. Panagiotys Gounaridis (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
c2 – df. Parker Betts (USA), 2-0 (1-0, 2-0)
c3 – lost to Mindauga Mizgaitis (LTU), 0-2 (0-1, 0-1)
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