At the Kodokan Cup All Japan Judo Championships by Weight Category held on the 30th, Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Wolf Aron (Ryotokuji Daishi) in the 100kg class returned to actual competition for the first time in a year and two months. Although she lost in the semi-finals, she finished third and won the right to represent the Grand Slam Tokyo (December 3-4), the second qualifier for the world championship next May.
Wolf, who appeared from the second round, is clearly slow and does not look good. However, he himself switched modes at an early stage, saying, “I knew that the performance was not good in the first match.” “Kumite is not affected by the condition,” he modified the form to win with kumite, pressure, and ground fighting. Defeated All Japan Junior Champion Michihiro Arai (3rd year student at Saitama Sakae High School) with “Ippon”, and in the quarter-finals defeated Akihiro Konno (4th year student at Nihon University) with “Ippon” and entered the top 4 . In the semi-finals, he was unable to stop last year’s student champion Kotaro Ueoka (Tenri University 4th year) from throwing a back throw, and lost in the GS extra time at 3 minutes 17 seconds with “Instruction 3”. Athlete selection meeting・All Japan Student Weight Category Championship and two crown Mitsutaka Kumasaka (Kokushikan University 4th year) was defeated by Uchimata “Giyu” in 1 minute 27 seconds of GS extra time to secure the podium.
