[Judo]Ritsu Saito succumbs to the monster Liner Loser resurrection also loses to Kageura, and the first parent-child V with his father Hitoshi is also carried over-Judo: Nikkan Sports

Ritsu Saito (20 = Kokushikan University) was defeated by a monster.

The second big stage that we reached with the runner-up last time. He played his long-awaited Teddy Riner (34 = France) for the first time, and after extra time in the quarter-finals, he lost by foul with instruction 3.

The height that is still growing is 192 cm and the weight is 167 kg. He challenged the 204 cm, 145 kg lineer in a head-to-head match, but the third instruction was given at 3 minutes 14 seconds (7 minutes 14 seconds in total) after entering the golden score (GS) overtime. he was repelled.

In the early stages, he broke the opponent’s position with Uchimata and Osotogari, and although he excited the hall, he gradually began to be pushed by his physical strength. The time to receive it became longer, and in the final stage when fatigue reached the limit, the technique did not come out.

The opponent was also suffering, such as sticking his hand to his knee, but he gave in to endurance. He had two gold medals at the Olympics (Olympics) and had a high wall to become an absolute champion, boasting a total of 10 wins in two weight classes at the world championships.

He showed his determination to win his first victory. In October last year, when he participated for the first time, he advanced to the final in the absence of Riner. However, he lost to ambush Andy Granda (31 = Cuba) and ended up with a silver medal.

With Jin (age 54), who died in 2015, his dream of becoming the first Japanese parent-child world champion in all classes was blocked, and he was disappointed.

For this tournament, he was burning with concentration, saying, “I will not think about my father, I will be myself.”

“The most important match.

In order to fulfill his long-cherished wish, he also carried out a “rehearsal” in March of this year. Liner comes to Japan for an international training camp held at the dojo of Kokushikan University, where he is a student. He got the chance to match up.

Volunteered for randori and experienced it. 30 minutes a day. She said, “I don’t think it was serious, but there was no difference to the extent that I thought, ‘This is impossible…'”. I continued to think. “I definitely want to surpass it.

In the process, of course, defeating the absolute champion was also included.

“The player I want to face at the World Championships is, after all, France’s Linaire. ”

However, the opponent was stronger than expected. I couldn’t fulfill the father and son v again this year. My father, a two-time Olympic champion, won the world championship open weight (at that time) in 1983. Forty years later, he should have followed suit. Same heavyweight class. He was supposed to take back the Japanese billboard, but he carried over his dream of defeating the monster.

Still, he made a presence. In the third round, he won the Tokyo Olympics silver medal Tusishvili (Georgia) by ippon with a horizontal four-sided consolidation. However, he was exhausted in the confrontation with Riner, and in the loser’s repechage match, which was a Japanese confrontation, he lost to Shin Kageura (27 = Japan Racing Association) with 3 instructions.

On the contrary, there is no choice but to climb up against adversity to the Paris Olympics next summer. In order to pay back the debt to Linaire in the big country France, he will reconsider his efforts and train repeatedly.[Jun Kinoshita]

◆Tatsuru Saito Born March 8, 2002 in Osaka Prefecture. Tokyo, Kokushikan High School – Kokushikan University 3rd year. He started judo at the age of five. With his father’s inherited sense, he is the best in all elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan. He won the 18th and 19th National High School Championships in the men’s over 100 kg class. He won the senior international tournament for the first time at the Grand Slam (GS) Baku tournament in 2021. In 1922, he became the first-ever all-Japan championship parent-child champion. At 20 years and 1 month, he was also the third youngest player ever. He also won the World Masters last December. His specialties are taiotoshi, waikoshi, and uchimata. He has blood type O.